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13 Apr 2018

Robin Hesketh lectures in Queensland

Robin Hesketh has given a lecture at the University of Queensland.As part of a lecture tour of Australia, Robin Hesketh contributed to the University of Queensland's Global Leadership Series, talking about demystifying cancer. You can see the video online.

13 Apr 2018

Away Days 2014

The Department held its annual Away Days in the beautiful surroundings of Madingley Hall on April 10th-11th.All Research Group Leaders and Senior Research Associates had an opportunity to hear a range of scientific talks and to take part in sessions discussing aspects of the Department. This year the focus was on Athena SWAN and other initiatives a…

13 Apr 2018

Rick Livesey talks about Alzheimer's research on BBC TV

Rick Livesey has appeared on the BBC programme Bang Goes the Theory speaking about his research on Alzheimer's Disease.You can watch a clip from the programme during April 2014 on the BBC website. Rick is also a member of the Gurdon and Stem Cell Institutes.

12 Apr 2018

Robin Hesketh on BBC Radio 2

Robin Hesketh has spoken about cancer on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2.

12 Apr 2018

Paul Dupree in new natural materials collaboration

A collaboration between several departments has won £1.75 million funding from the Leverhulme Trust.Paul Dupree is part of a unique collaboration between several departments, led by the Department of Architecture, that has won £1.75 million from the Leverhulme Trust. The funding over the next five years will enable exploration and development of th…

12 Apr 2018

Chris Howe's lab using moss to power radio

Dr Paolo Bombelli appeared on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.Dr Paolo Bombelli, from Chris Howe's group, appeared on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this week, talking about using moss to power electronic devices such as a radio. The work is carried out in collaboration with the Department of Plant Sciences and designer Fabienne Felder.More …

12 Apr 2018

Kevin Brindle's lab in new collaboration with MedImmune

AstraZeneca will contribute both funding and a post-doctoral scientist to the Brindle Group.The global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca will contribute both funding and a post-doctoral scientist to work within the laboratory of Kevin Brindle in the area of tumour targeted therapies. Read the full story on the main University ne…

12 Apr 2018

Biochemistry PhD student's team wins Breast Cancer Startup Challenge

Many congratulations to Grecia Gonzalez, a Gates Cambridge Scholar in Ben Luisi's group who is part of a team that was one of ten winners of the first Breast Cancer Startup Challenge.The full story is published on the main University news website.

12 Apr 2018

Feedback loop counters oxidative stress in cancer

The Luisi and Ralser Groups have published a new paper in Open Biology.Ben Luisi's and Markus Ralser's groups have jointly published a paper in Open Biology entitled "Inhibition of triosephosphate isomerase by phosphoenolpyruvate in the feedback-regulation of glycolysis".The inhibition results in a newly discovered feedback loop that counters oxida…

12 Apr 2018

Norman Newboult retires

On 14th February 2014 the Department held a party to celebrate the retirement of Norman Newboult, who has played a key role in the Department, serving for 33 years.Norman joined the Department in March 1981, as an electronics technician under Les Price, having previously trained in radar maintenance. In recent years he has been dealing with all our…

12 Apr 2018

£12M for OpenPlant synthetic biology centre

Plant scientists at Cambridge and Norwich have been awarded £12 million funding for a new UK synthetic biology centre, OpenPlant.The Cambridge element of the programme is strongly multidisciplinary. As well as staff in the Department of Plant Sciences, it will involve Paul Dupree and Chris Howe from the Department of Biochemistry, and others from t…

12 Apr 2018

Part III Symposium

The Part III Symposium took place on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th January in the Sanger Building Lecture Theatre.All of the Part III Class attended the Symposium, which was divided into six thematic sessions: Chemical and Synthetic Biology, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, RNA Biology, Cancer and Signalling, DNA-Protein Interactions, and M…

12 Apr 2018

Department Research Day 2014

On 13th January 2014 the Department held its annual Research Day.This year it was at a new venue, Robinson College. Ten talks by academic staff about their work included three by new members, on widely varying topics. The talks gave an insight into how many years of careful work could be needed to achieve results and touched on some of the latest d…

12 Apr 2018

Potential therapeutic targets for stroke and dementia

The Brown Group and collaborators have published a new paper in PNAS.Brain ischemia is a major cause of death and disability worldwide, but the cellular mechanisms of delayed neuronal loss and brain atrophy after cerebral ischemia are poorly understood and are thus currently untreatable. Guy Brown and collaborators have found, in work published in …

12 Apr 2018

Dual mode gene reporter enhances imaging

The Brindle Group and collaborators have published a new paper in PNAS.Gene reporters can be used to track viable cells in vivo and their patterns of gene expression. There have been numerous attempts to develop gene reporters for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) but these give only modest image contrast and often this is negative, which can be dif…