Name Phytoform Labs Ltd Placement base location Lawes Open Innovation Hub Rothamsted Research West Common Harpenden, AL52JQ Website www.phytoformlabs.com Contact for enquiries Nicolas Kral Contact details nicolas.kral@phytoformlabs.com / 01582297550 Placement job title Data Analyst (Bioinformatics) Potential start date Flexible Read More …
Name Albotherm Placement base location Future Space, UWE North Gate, Bristol, BS34 8R Website www.albotherm.com Contact for enquiries Sian Fussell Contact details sianfussell@albotherm.com / 07973986891 Placement job title Chief Technology Officer Potential start date Flexible from July 2023 Potential Read More …
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that is the predominant cause of cystic fibrosis mortality. It is particularly hard to treat with antibiotics, due to forming thick layers of matrices within the sticky mucous of patient lungs, also known as biofilms. Read More …
The ‘Plant Power Station’ aimed to raise public awareness of the importance of plants, agriculture, pollinators, and sustainability, and ‘plugging yourself into a greener world’ The team headed by Prof Dan Bebber (Agriculture and Environment Research Theme Champion) involved students Read More …
A team of our SWBio DTP PhD students will be attending the Festival of Nature and running a stall titled ‘Pests, Plants and Parasites: How researchers in the Southwest are protecting your food’. To promote this event, some of the Read More …
Name Reach Industries Placement base location Company and lab based in Bristol. If not based in Bristol, will need to find own lab space. Website https://www.reach.industries/ Contact for enquiries Silas Adekunle Contact details Email: silas@reach.industries Placement job title Business Development Read More …
Arguably the greatest issue facing aquaculture today is that of infectious disease. Combine this with the turbulent and ever changing nature of water, prevention and mitigation of aquatic diseases can be challenging. Ideally the old adage “prevention is better than Read More …
Rosie recently won the University of Bristol’s 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for her talk on ‘Fungal secondary metabolites: exploring a kingdom of possibilities’. Rosie tells us about her experience and some top tips about presenting your research in a Read More …
The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has placed an unprecedented strain on global society, healthcare, governments and mass media. Public dissemination of government policies, medical interventions and misinformation has been remarkably rapid and largely unregulated during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting Read More …
The cornea is the transparent dome at the front of the eye that is essential to maintaining clear vision. In humans, the cornea is comprised of five layers, but in many other species there are only four. Bowman’s layer is Read More …
Zebrafish are one of the most well studied animals on the planet. But how they came by their beautiful black and gold stripes is more of a mystery. Our new research used mathematical modelling – and detailed observations of mutant zebrafish patterns Read More …
A new study has outlined the potential of soil-free, computer-controlled farms as climate change and soil erosion limit our ability to grow crops. This research describes the growing environmental and economic case for vertical farming methods which could see crops Read More …
