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 Bristol Neuroscience Festival is the biggest public engagement event in Bristol Neuroscience’s calendar, welcoming the public – including dozens of school trips – to stalls showcasing research from across the synaptic spectrum, from educational psychology through to cellular biochemistry. Read More …
Over the past 20 years, research into the microbiome has exploded. Increasingly, experimental and clinical evidence suggests that the gut microbiota is linked to many host physiological processes, particularly immunology, metabolism, and gut physiology. There is strong evidence for interactions 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 …
Circadian rhythms are the physiological changes which occur throughout the day. Known colloquially as the ‘the body clock’, they govern everything from sleep/wake cycles to body temperature, and contribute massively to health. Circadian disruptions are a common symptom of depression, Read More …
The Mint Magazine is all about opening up economics education, research and application to a broader range of perspectives, including the intersections of science, economics and systems change. In its latest issue about the Care Economy this “Away from the Read More …
The neural crest is a population of cells that have the potential to develop into a remarkable number of different tissues. Neural crest cells are found in all vertebrate embryos, including humans, and form all body pigment cells in the Read More …
New research shows that climate change will increase the burden of crop diseases in some parts of the world and reduce it in others. Researchers studied how crop yields and infection risk caused by plant pathogens will change in the Read More …
The BBSRC Policy Internship Scheme gives PhD students the opportunity to undertake placements at influential policy organisations. These can include parliamentary departments or non-governmental organisations (NGOs). I recently finished my placement at Senedd Research, working in the Health and Social Read More …
Simon recently won the poster prize for the Open Electronics session at the SEB 2021 Annual Conference. Here he shares his top tips for producing/presenting a poster. For the design of my poster, I was focusing on two main ideas. Read More …
Following a stressful event, glucocorticoid (GC) hormones are secreted into the blood and act on the brain where they allow for active coping and adaptation to the stressor, for example through learning and memory processes. Additionally, GCs are secreted in Read More …
