News

The BBSRC publishes  'Our Impact' case studies to highlight how the research it funds has an impact on science, the economy and social issues. Prof Andrew Martin’s abYsis software was chosen as a BBSRC Impact case for 11 September 2018. BBSRC Impact case study, Phamaceuticals industry benefits from antibody sequence software, 11 September 2018 Professor
Read More

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 tuberculosis and 2. to investigate post-transcriptional control of gene expression associated with inherent
Read More

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.

October 2018 A collaboration between the ISMB's Prof Peter Coveney and Prof Andrea Townsend-Nicholson with Prof Blanca Rodriguez at University of Oxford, Prof Marco Viceconti at University of Sheffield and Prof Alfons Hoekstra at University of Amsterdam, 'The Virtual Human' is a film describing the recreation of a human being in silico, including IMAX video composited
Read More

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 endothelial cells, fundamentally regulating vascular development. However, a group of scientists led by Prof Peter Carmeliet
Read More

August 2018 The latest ISMB Newsletter for Summer 2018 can be downloaded at the following link: ISMB Newsletter, Issue 14, Summer 2018

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 in tissues, due to the lack of experimental and computational tools to efficiently characterize interactions at the
Read More

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 7000 people in the UK. There is currently no treatment or cure for the
Read More