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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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A new project led by UCL seeks to develop the plants and food of the future, supported by UK government funding from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). Professor Saul Purton (UCL Structural & Molecular Biology) and Dr Scott Lenaghan (University of Tennessee) are co-leading a project, supported by an £8.9 million grant, that aims

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TwinsUK is the UK’s largest study of adult twins who have contributed their health data over up to 30 years. Claire Steves, together with twins involved in the studies – Yvonne Haines and Sandra Coles, will talk about how this collaboration between scientists and participants has contributed to understanding of how we can stay healthy

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      ISMB Director f.fraternali@ucl.ac.uk Based at UCL and Birkbeck   Professor Franca Fraternali is an expert in Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Naples, having spent part of her doctorate at the Physical Chemistry Department of the ETH Zürich (ETHZ). She was awarded an EMBO fellowship to work

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Congratulations to Professor Frances Brodsky on being elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Cellular and Developmental Biology Section of Biological Sciences, in recognition of her outstanding scientific and leadership achievements. We are proud to see Frances join the ranks of such distinguished individuals whose, in the words of Academy

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For the past 15 years at UCL, the Thalassinos Lab has been studying alpha-1-antitrypsin, focusing on understanding the early misfolding events and how monomers form higher-order oligomers. Despite numerous models reported in the literature, the formation of the dimer as the first step towards higher-order oligomers has always been intriguing, with many different models of the dimer

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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.