Corinne Arnold has recently returned from a 9 week trip to the United States after winning a fellowship to support the trip. Corinne applied for British Society for Plant Pathology Junior Fellowship and was awarded £2700 to cover her travel and subsistence ...
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A Pharmacy PhD student from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has been recognised as one of the brightest and most promising PhD and Postdoctoral leaders internationally. Lucka Bibic, 28, was recognised by the 2018 Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) SciFinder ...
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Tom Eyles has had success as first author on a recently published paper in ACS Synthetic Biology. Tom and his colleagues present a one-step yeast-based method that enables efficient, cheap, and flexible modifications to biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). ...
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Hans Pfalzgraf is a 1st year PhD student in BIO, currently working with Andrew Hemmings and Anne Osbourn on discovering the structure of oat enzymes. He participated in FameLab, an international science communication competition started by the Cheltenham ...
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Ben Wagstaff, a previous DTP iCASE student, has recently been an author on a study looking at how to deal with algal blooms. Edward Hems, also part of the DTP programme, was involved in the project too. Both students were under the supervision of Dr Rob ...
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DTP student Erin Baggs, based at the Earlham Institute, was involved in a recent publication looking in to the diversification of plant immune receptors. The plant immune system is innate and encoded in the germline. Using it efficiently, plants are capable ...
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Seema Ali was selected to give an oral communication entitled ‘Constitutive P2Y2 receptor activity suppresses lipolysis in human adipocytes’ at the British Pharmacological Society meeting in London 11-13th December 2017. This is the flagship UK annual ...
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Biotechnology YES, now in its 22nd year, is an innovative competition developed to raise awareness of the commercialisation of ideas among early career researchers. The competition aims to encourage an entrepreneurial culture in the UK postgraduate and ...
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The mention of spider venom is enough to send shivers down the spine of many, but not for a group of researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) researching its ability to ease pain. The team, two of whom are DTP students Lucka Bibic and Samuel ...
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The John Innes Centre has become the first institution in the UK to achieve an Athena SWAN Gold Award. The Athena SWAN Charter was originally established to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing women’s careers in science, technology, ...
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Two DTP students, Ana Bermejo Martinez and Jade Doughty, have recently travelled to Kenya to start a new programme at Pwani University in Kilifi for their PIPS placement. Following their involvement in the DevSET (Development Scientist Support Exchange ...
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An international research partnership, which DTP student Ben White is involved in, has sequenced the genome of the white Guinea yam for the first time. Known to millions of people as the “King of the Crops,” the yam is a staple crop with huge economic ...
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