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October 30, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM organised by Alice Pettitt (former ISMB PhD student).Venue:  Fora – The Jellicoe Building, 5 Beaconsfield Street, London N1C 4EW To sign up and see the session information, click here. ARIA funds breakthrough R&D in underexplored areas to catalyse new paths to prosperity for the UK and the world. They empower
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Friday 3rd October, 2pm Anatomy G04 Gavin de Beer LT. Prof Jinbiao Ma https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nFrDcpsAAAAJ&hl=en, from the University of Fudan (Shangai) is vising London this week, and will present his work on “Recognition and mechanisms of Y RNAs and Z RNAs” on Friday Oct 3rd, 2 pm, Anatomy G04 Gavin de Beer LT. This is exciting, novel work
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Ref Number  B02-09367 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02) Location  London Working Pattern  Full time Salary  See advert text Contract Type  Fixed-term Working Type  On site Available for Secondment  No Closing Date  13-Oct-2025 APPLY NOW  About us The Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology (SMB) is a world
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10 September 2025 UK bioscience is set to benefit from cutting-edge research tools accelerating advances in health, climate-smart farming, sustainable food and drug discovery. Thirty-one new technology awards will equip scientists with the infrastructure they need to answer some of the most pressing challenges in biology and beyond. These include imaging tools that reveal how cells behave in
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Biosciences Seminar Speaker: Maciek Wiatrak, Cambridge University Place: 305, Bedford Way (26) Date: 02/10/2025 Time: 11.00-12.00 Bacteria have evolved a vast diversity of functions and behaviours which are currently incompletely understood and poorly predicted from DNA sequence alone. To understand the syntax of bacterial evolution and discover genome-to-phenotype relationships, we curated over 1.3 million genomes spanning bacterial phylogenetic space, representing each as an
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Birkbeck’s annual Bernal lecture honours the pioneering spirit of JD Bernal, and this year shines a light on one of his most remarkable protégés. The 2025 Bernal Lecture will be held under the title “The Harvest of an Eclectic Mind: Alan Mackay and the Rewriting of the Book of Crystallography.” The lecture celebrates the life and work of Alan Mackay,
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A not-for-profit symposium highlighting recent AI-based developments to enhance protein family classifications, annotations and analyses. There will be talks from world leaders in structural bioinfomatics on various themes including pioneering protein language models and key international resources including: PDBe, InterPro, UniProt, MGnify, SWISS-MODEL, FrustraEvo and CATH. Invited Speakers: Christine Orengo -- University College London Burkhard Rost
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The Swiss government offers fellowships for British researchers to undertake a research project in Switzerland. Switzerland has some of the world’s top universities and research institutes © Switzerland Tourism / Lorenz Richard The Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships give early-stage British researchers (Master’s degree or recent PhD) the opportunity to pursue a research project at postgraduate, doctoral
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