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Read more at: Welcome to Susanne Bornelöv!
Susanne Bornelöv

Welcome to Susanne Bornelöv!

Susanne Bornelöv joins us from the CRUK Cambridge Institute. Over the years, Susanne's work has covered a range of areas, including histone modifications, functional genomics, RNA modifications, piRNAs and transposable elements. The common denominator has been a focus on molecular...

Read more at: Prize for Alberto Scarampi
Alberto Scarampi

Prize for Alberto Scarampi

Congratulations to Alberto Scarampi on being runner-up for the University's 2024 H E Woodman prize for the best PhD thesis in genetics or biochemistry related to food or agriculture. Alberto did his PhD in the Howe lab , and is now a post-doc with Orkun Soyer in Warwick. His work on the evolution of herbicide resistance...

Read more at: Royal Society film celebrates the life and work of Marjory Stephenson
Marjory Stephenson outside the Department with Judith

Royal Society film celebrates the life and work of Marjory Stephenson

Watch a film made to mark the 80th anniversary of our former faculty member Marjory Stephenson becoming one of the first two female fellows of the Royal Society with Kathleen Lonsdale. It was partly shot in the Department and at Newnham College and features many pictures from the Department Photograph Albums and...

Read more at: Howe Group show cyanobacteria can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide
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Howe Group show cyanobacteria can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide

In a paper published in Current Biology , Alberto Scarampi and his colleagues in Chris Howe's group show that cyanobacteria (photosynthetic bacteria) can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide thanks to a pool of potentially beneficial mutations already existing at low frequencies in the bacterial...

Read more at: Pioneering Cambridge Women Biochemists
Marjory Stephenson and Dorothy Moyle Needham

Pioneering Cambridge Women Biochemists

To mark Women’s History Month, Stella Butler has written a short piece on our former faculty members, Marjory Stephenson and Dorothy Moyle Needham and the difficulties they faced establishing scientific careers in the 1920s and 30s.

Stella is Librarian Emeritus at the University of...

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