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Read more at: George Salmond awarded the Marjory Stephenson Prize for 2025
George Salmond

George Salmond awarded the Marjory Stephenson Prize for 2025

Our emeritus professor, George Salmond has been awarded the Marjory Stephenson Prize for 2025 from the Microbiology Society . Professor Salmond spent his distinguished career studying the molecular genetics of cell division, developing genetic tools to control the growth of bacteria and working on the discovery,...

Read more at: Paul Dupree is a Highly Cited Researcher for 2024
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Paul Dupree is a Highly Cited Researcher for 2024

We are delighted that Paul Dupree is a Highly Cited Researcher again for 2024 . He has been selected for nine out of the last ten years since 2014. According to the selection criteria, each researcher receiving this prestigious award has:

'authored multiple Highly Cited Papers™ which rank in the top 1% by...

Read more at: New paper shows translocons, and targeting peptides, for four membranes were directly inherited from haptophytes with a new plastid in dinoflagellates
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New paper shows translocons, and targeting peptides, for four membranes were directly inherited from haptophytes with a new plastid in dinoflagellates

Ross Waller’s lab has published a paper, ‘ Plastid translocon recycling in dinoflagellates demonstrates the portability of complex plastids between hosts ’ in Current Biology in collaboration with colleagues in Ben Luisi’s lab and at the MRC Cambridge and the Cell and Plant Physiology Laboratory, Université Grenoble...

Read more at: Designing a Synthetic Biology Workbench: NED and the Magnificent Seven
Fig. 1: Basic properties of the S. cerevisiae MMNs under 6 different growth conditions. From: Minimisation of metabolic networks defines a new functional class of genes.

Designing a Synthetic Biology Workbench: NED and the Magnificent Seven

A paper in this week’s Nature Communications , by Prof Steve Oliver and former members of his lab, reports a major step toward improving the efficiency of industrial microbes. Generating a minimal metabolic network ( MMN ) should improve the production efficiency of engineered microbes by reducing...

Read more at: Joshua Lawrence wins prizes for PhD research
Joshua Lawrence

Joshua Lawrence wins prizes for PhD research

Biochemistry PhD student Joshua Lawrence has received the Katharine Burr Blodgett Award for his doctoral research. This prize recognises outstanding work by a recent PhD graduate in the field of colloid and interface science. The prize is named in honour of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who was the first woman to receive a...

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