Emily Stonelake is a third-year SWBio student at Swansea and Cardiff. She is a co-author on a publication investigating the role of oxysterol-Liver X receptor signalling in altered cortical neurogenesis in a stem cell model of a neurodevelopmental disorder, published Read More …
Glastonbury Festival is the most famous performing arts festival in the UK (and maybe the world). What many people don’t know, though, is that there is a wealth of scientific outreach which occurs there. Showcased in the festival’s Green Futures Read More …
SWBio DTP students Akshita Jindal (University of Exeter) and Niharika Singh (Cardiff University) are pleased to announce an exciting new project: The Neuroexplorists. Here, they tell us a bit more about their vision for the newsletter and how you can get 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
Name UK Research and Innovation Department Research Placement base location 12-week research placements in Canadian universities. Website UK Research and Innovation Contact for enquiries Email below Contact details UKRIGlobalink@ukri.org Placement job title UK-Canada Globalink Doctoral Exchange Programme Potential start date Read More …
New research shows that pathogens that attack agricultural crops show remarkable adaptability to new climates and new plant hosts. Researchers studied the temperature preferences and host plant diversity of hundreds of fungi and oomycetes that attack our crops and found Read More …
There is compelling evidence that when root hairs interact with the surrounding soil they reduce soil erosion and increase soil cohesion by binding soil particles. Soil erosion can have a devastating impact across the globe and a serious threat for Read More …
During my PhD, it occurred to me that many of the papers in the scientific literature could be misidentifying genetic markers that show a skewed inheritance pattern, otherwise known as segregation distortion. This is because they used a statistical test Read More …
This preprint paper on a new method for spray-on gene editing has rocketed to the 98th percentile of popular work uploaded onto biorxiv within just a few days, and has been retweeted multiple times by many scientists! The Whitney/Galan/Edwards groups Read More …
