ISMB student receives the Microbiology Society Undergraduate Prize
November 2018
Congratulations to ISMB student Joe Phillips on being awarded the Microbiology Society Undergraduate Prize for outstanding academic achievement. Joe was nominated by Prof Saul Purton and the award presented by Prof Jo Santini (Lead of the Microbiology@UCL Domain).
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Dr Tine Arnvig awarded MRC Grant
November 2018
The ISMB’s Dr Tine Arnvig has been awarded an MRC grant to investigate ‘Conditional termination of transcription in Mycobacterium tuberculosis’. The aim of the project is to 1. define transcriptional terminator motifs on a global scale in the human pathogen Mycobacterium.. →
ISMB Commentary: An unexpected role for the enzyme Glutamine Synthetase
October 2018
Prof Francesco Gervasio’s group has contributed to the discovery and clarification of an unexpected, yet fundamental, role of the enzyme glutamine synthetase.
Glutamine synthetase (GS) is an enzyme that converts glutamate and ammonia to glutamine. GS is expressed in.. →
Dr Alan Lowe and Dr Konstantinos Thalassinos receive BBSRC grant
October 2018
Congratulations to Dr Alan Lowe and Dr Konstantinos Thalassinos on being awarded a BBSRC grant for the project, Reverse engineering cell competition using automated microscopy and recurrent neural networks, a collaboration with Guillaume Charras from the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
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Film: ‘The Virtual Human’
Latest ISMB Newsletter: Summer 2018
August 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
June 2018
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.. →
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.. →