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Brian Ho's group recently published a paper in PLOS Journal on 18th July 2024. Interbacterial competition plays an important role in the dynamics of microbial communities, however the impact of such competition on host defenses is less clear. In this work, we use a zebrafish model to reductively investigate the host response to distinct forms of
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Giulia Zanetti, Head of the Membrane Architecture Laboratory at the Crick, UCL and Birkbeck College, has been awarded £1.2m from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to use advanced microscopy techniques to understand complex secretory processes inside animal cells. Full article can be read here.

Professor Andrea Townsend-Nicholson has been appointed Vice-Dean Health for the Faculty of Life Sciences from 1st August 2024. Congratulations!

Welcome to the ISMB Symposium 2024! The Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB) will hold this year's biennial ISMB Symposium at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th June. Traditionally, the Symposium gathers eminent guest speakers and our own ISMB scientists to present talks on the core research themes of the Institute in
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Kristine Arnvig's research group recently published a paper in the Nucleic Acids Journal. Full paper can be accessed here (doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae338) . Unexpected complexity of vitamin B12-sensing RNA elements in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lacks the ability to produce vitamin B12, yet this co-factor plays a significant role in Mtb's metabolism and gene regulation. Research
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Join us for Birkbeck's Annual Science Week festival at the Faculty of Science  which runs from Wednesday 29th - Monday 3rd June 2024 in-person and online. This is not one to be missed, where we will host engaging and interactive evening events, including the annual Rosalind Franklin Lecture and the Andrew and Kathleen Booth Memorial Lecture. All events will continue into the evening with opportunities to take
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Professor Stephen J Perkins and Dr Jayesh S. Bhatt from UCL awarded for their work determining the molecular structures of therapeutic antibodies in solution. Read the article here.

The UCL Faculties of Engineering, Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Life Sciences will lead seven new government-funded Centres for Doctoral Training and be a partner in a further two. EPSRC has agreed to provide funding for a new Centre for Doctoral Training in Accelerated Medicines Design & Development (AMD&D) (~£7M) with the first student intake scheduled for
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The Engineering Biology Mission Hubs aim to harness cutting-edge engineering biology research from across the UK to address global challenges from health to the environment. The six hubs will receive up to £12 million each from the UKRI Technology Missions Fund and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The P3EB Mission Hub (funded with
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Dive into the intriguing world of technological trust with us at the Science Museum's thought-provoking event, "Can We Trust Computers?". Join us on Thursday, 9 May 2024, from 18:30 to 19:30, at the IMAX: The Ronson Theatre, for a captivating panel discussion featuring leading experts like Dr. Alessandra Vizzaccaro and Professors Paul Brenner, Tim Palmer,
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A bid team which included UCL’s Professor Konstantinos Thalassinos has secured £49.35m from the UKRI Infrastructure Fund to establish a nationwide mass spectrometry infrastructure. Critical Mass UK (C-MASS) will be a national hub-and-spoke infrastructure that will integrate and advance the UK’s capability in mass spectrometry, a technique that identifies the characteristics of molecules. Mass spectrometry is used across
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When: 9 May 2024, 16:00 — 17:00 Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre Book your place The School of Natural Sciences at Birkbeck are delighted to invite you to this annual lecture in memory of Professor JD Bernal. Established in 1968, this annual lecture commemorates JD Bernal - Professor of Physics at Birkbeck from 1938 and then Chair of Crystallography in 1963. In line with
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