Latest ISMB Newsletter: Summer 2018
The latest ISMB Newsletter for Summer 2018 can be downloaded at the following link:
ISMB Newsletter, Issue 14, Summer 2018
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ISMB Commentary: Using deep learning and single cell tracking to understand competitive interactions in cell populations
Cell competition is a quality-control mechanism through which tissues eliminate unfit cells. Cell competition can result from short-range biochemical inductions or long-range mechanical cues. However, little is known about how cell-scale interactions give rise to population shifts in tissues, due.. →
ISMB Research could spell new approach to preventing progression of Huntington’s disease
June 2018
New research from scientists at Birkbeck and UCL points the way to a new approach in preventing progression of Huntington’s disease (HD), by manipulating the mutated protein associated with the disease.
HD is an inherited neurodegenerative disease, thought to affect about.. →
Promotion of ISMB investigators
July 2018
Congratulations to Joanne Santini and Andrew Martin on their promotions to Professor of Microbiology and Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology respectively in the Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology at UCL.
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Professor Andres Ramos receives new MRC programme grant
July 2018
Congratulations to Professor Andres Ramos on being awarded an MRC Programme grant for the project: ‘Molecular mechanisms regulating mRNA transport and local translation in neurons’.
The research will investigate the crucial role played by RNA binding proteins in.. →