Gareth Thomas has recently finished his UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Policy internship, which took place at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe). The role of SPICe is to provide impartial information to the Scottish Parliament on a range of Read More …
35 BBSRC PhD students from across the UK enjoyed a four-day intensive Skills School earlier this month. The BBSRC-funded Grand Challenges for Technologies and Methods for Drug Discovery Skills School took place at the Cosener’s House in Abingdon and ended with students pitching to a panel ‘Dragon’s Den’ style. This event was organised by the SWBio DTP in collaboration with Read More …
On the 15th and 16th May, Emily Nixon visited IBM Research in Almaden, California as an invited speaker at the Distinguished Speaker Forum, a bi-weekly series which is live-streamed globally across IBM. The aim of the forum is to bring Read More …
Last week I was lucky enough to be welcomed back to Sense about Science (SaS) to help run Evidence Week in Parliament. The first of its kind, Evidence Week brought together MPs, peers, parliamentary services and people from all walks Read More …
Puffy skin disease (PSD) is an emerging skin condition which affects rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum). The transmission pattern of PSD suggests an infectious aetiology, however, the actual causative infectious agent(s) remain(s) unknown. In the present study, the rainbow trout epidermal immune Read More …
We tend to think of microbes as ‘simple’ organisms that are not capable of the ‘complex’ behaviour that we see in animals like ourselves. But this assumption more often stems from our own ignorance of other life-forms than it reflects Read More …
James Clark (fourth year SWBio DTP student) has recently had some of his work published as part of a paper that demonstrates how plants colonised the earth 100 millions years earlier than previously thought! These findings have then been featured Read More …
‘Sleeper cells’, which can survive doses of antibiotics and lie resting in a dormant state, may hold a key to understanding antibiotic resistance, research has found. The research, published in the journal BMC Biology, lays the foundation for understanding the special properties of Read More …
Congratulations to Emma Robson who won the competitive Ede and Ravenscroft prize for best PhD student. The title of Emma’s presentation was ‘Finding your way around: The importance of brain rhythms’. In her talk, Emma explained her research into glutamate, Read More …
Congratulations to Jeremy Froidevaux who has recently had a paper published: “Catching insects while recording bats: impacts of light trapping on acoustic sampling”. Passive acoustic sampling has become an increasingly popular method to study the ecology of echolocating bats. However, the Read More …
Congratulations to Claire Dumenil (current 3rd year SWBio DTP student) who won the #agrifoodbecause 2017 twitter competition. This competition organised by the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)’s Agri-Food Early Career Forum. Claire tweeted the reason for doing her PhD in Read More …
Staphylococcus aureus is a medically important pathogen responsible for a range of infectious diseases from minor skin and soft tissue infections, to more serious life-threatening infections such as septicaemia and meningitis. It is best known as the causative agent of MRSA Read More …
