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Today, 24th November 2016, it is 157 years ago that Charles Darwin’s book, On the origins of Species, was published. Neil Gostling, Senior teaching fellow in Biological Sciences, has been busy celebrating this anniversary with a number of exciting events
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22th November 2016 David Tumbarello held a workshop on undergraduate Summer placements on 21st November. All 2nd year undergraduate students are encouraged to contact academic staff to explore placements in biological sciences labs during the summer 2017 for a period of 6-12 weeks. This is an
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To all early career researchers, STEM for Britain – a poster competition at Westminster for early researchers- is now open for applications. See for more information here: Who can apply? MSc, PhD, Post Docs, Research Assistants or Fellows, recently-appointed lecturers,
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On Tuesday 11th October, Biological Sciences celebrated Ada Lovelace day by holding an event for postgrads on plugging the ‘leaky pipeline’ – overcoming barriers in making the PhD to postdoc hurdle A major issue in nearly all STEM subjects (including Biology)
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Calling all PhD students (Year 2 and upwards), would you like the challenge of explaining your thesis in 3 minutes using just one PowerPoint slide and no other props? The Three Minute Thesis Competition is part of an international programme of competitions
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As part of the Equality and Diversity committee we will be running some training sessions throughout the academic year, specifically for post-docs in Biological Sciences. These will cover a range of exciting topics (!?) including working abroad, working with industry
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Friday 14th October 2016 On Friday 14th October 2016, Jessica Teeling and her PhD student Paul Ibbett, hosted a ‘neuroscience-focussed’ lab visit for six students and their teacher, Chris Pickard, from the science department of Peter Symonds 6th form College. This annual event is part
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Monday 3rd October 2016 Today Mark Chapman’s research featured on ‘Talking Biotech’ with a 40 minute podcast on the origin and diversity of egg plants. In the podcast Mark talks about the domestication and evolution of the eggplant, discussing its
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Dr Hans Schuppe was head of Biological Sciences’ Imaging Facility until 2013 and was instrumental in developing it into the state-of-the-art Facility it is today. The Hans Schuppe Image Prize is established in his memory, and is open to every
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Ellie Kirby, a Biological Sciences graduate, spent the summer undertaking the research project ‘ Investigating the temperature-mediated response of the core clock gene period in a Drosophila melanogaster model’ within the lab of Herman Wijnen. This project was was funded by the Genetics Society
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