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FNES Dean’s Prize Award Ceremony was held yesterday in the Building 85 Observatory, where 8 postdoctoral teaching and research fellows were presented with awards. The Dean’s Prize is an annual event which was started 4 years ago to recognise and reward
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14th December: Day 14 Tuesday 13th December marked the moment everyone has been waiting for, the annual Big Quiz of the Year hosted by BSPS. Once again our resident quiz master Neil Smyth provided great entertainment singing along with the
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The Biological Sciences Winter Party took place yesterday afternoon in the B85 Observatory. During the party, three members of Biological Sciences received their Long Service Awards from the Dean, Professor Rachel Mills. Professor Tom Fleming and Dr Bhav Sheth received
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December 12th – Day 12 Time for a little game -Do you recognise our student office receptionist? Feeling competitive? why not enter our competition: how many differences can you find? Entries can be submitted at the bottom of this
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11th December – Day 11 On 8th December 2016, two early career researchers from Biological Sciences presented their work at the British Society of Immunology in Liverpool. This meeting was a three-day joint annual meeting from the British and Dutch Immunology
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This festive looking image is a composite looking through a crystalline biofilm showing individual Proteus on the surface of a single struvite crystal and surrounded by diffuse apatite crystals and was imaged by Dr Sandra Wilks. Sandra’s work forms part of an
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Dr’s Paul Skipp and Jim Schofield have had their paper accepted for publication in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.201604-0866OC The paper “A Severe Asthma Disease Signature from Gene Expression Profiling of Peripheral Blood from U-BIOPRED Cohorts”
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Yesterday (December 7th) was the inaugural awarding of the Hans Schuppe Imaging Prize, a prize established in memory of Hans Schuppe, who headed the imaging facility in Biological Sciences until 2013. Both undergraduate and post-graduate students within Biological Sciences were
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7th December – Day 7 PhD researcher Juan Nunez (supervised by Claire Clarkin and funded by Kerkut/IflS) took part in Bright Club’s 6th comedy show on 18th of November, at Boulangerie Victor Hugo as one of the performers combining comedy and
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5th December – day 5 It is now over a decade since the human genome was first sequenced and recent developments have further revolutionised our ability to edit our genomes, with a wide-range of potential medical applications. There is no
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