Contensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.uk http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/index.aspx?SyndicationType=2 2013-06-20T02:20:55Z Simon Levermore

A recent report comparing modern and medieval leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae) by Professor Gurdyal S. Besra, Bardrick Professor of Microbial Physiology and Chemistry at the School of Biosciences, has been published in Science

2013-06-14T11:29:00Z 2013-06-14T14:23:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/13Jun-genome-wide-comparison-of-medieval-and-modern-leprosy.aspx Simon Levermore

We shall be welcoming Phill Hawkins from the Babraham Institute for this seminar on Thursday 4 July. Phill obtained his PhD here in my laboratory. Since about 1990 he and Len Stephens, another Birmingham graduate, have jointly led a research group at the Babraham Institute that has been making ground-breaking discoveries about the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling system that is activated by many extracellular stimuli (including insulin and several growth factors) to regulate cell growth and other functions.

2013-06-13T13:11:00Z 2013-06-14T09:17:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/13Jun-graduate-elected-Fellow-of-the-Royal-Society.aspx Simon Levermore

Professor Gurdyal Besra, Bardrick Professor of Microbial Physiology and Chemistry in the School of Biosciences, is among 44 researchers from across the UK who have been recognised for their contribution to the advancement of medical science by election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

2013-05-07T13:15:00Z 2013-05-20T13:47:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/7May-biosciences-professor-recognised-for-excellence-in-research.aspx Simon Levermore

Professor John Colbourne, Chair of Environmental Genomics, within the School of Biosciences is to be one of the keynote speakers at the First International Environmental 'Omics Synthesis Conference at Cardiff University 9-11 September 2013.

2013-04-23T12:04:00Z 2013-04-30T12:29:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/26Apr-Biosciences-Professor-to-talk-at-First-International-Environmental-Omics-Synthesis-Conference.aspx Simon Levermore

A new Technology Alliance Partner agreement has been established between laboratories within the School of Biosciences and Thermo Fisher Scientific to accelerate research in high-resolution accurate mass and triple quadrupole liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) for life science applications.

2013-04-23T10:02:00Z 2013-04-23T10:21:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/16Apr-School-scientists-team-up-with-Thermo-Fisher-Scientific-for-life-science-research.aspx Simon Levermore

A partnership between the University of Birmingham, BGI, the world's largest genomics organisation, and its open-access journal, GigaScience, has received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to develop a software platform for the analysis of large-scale environmental metabolomics data.

2013-04-19T10:05:00Z 2013-04-23T09:32:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/19Apr-Collaboration-to-establish-new-computational-resources-for-metabolomics.aspx Simon Levermore

Dr Robin May, recipient of the 2013 Colworth Award, will give a presentation at the forthcoming Biochemical Society Award Symposium on 21 February 2013 at Charles Darwin house, London. Dr May's Lecture will be published exclusively in Biochemical Society Transactions.

2013-02-15T13:19:00Z 2013-02-18T08:47:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/15Feb-dr-robin-may-colworth-medal.aspx Simon Levermore

Professor Tim Dafforn of the School of Biosciences and Mathew Hicks, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham are finalists for the Most Promising Innovator award for a synthetic biology solution to pathogen detection.

2013-02-05T09:13:00Z 2013-02-18T09:17:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/Feb04-Activating-Impact-and-Innovator-of-the-Year-finalists-announced.aspx Simon Levermore

Research by Dr Steve Publicover of the School of Biosciences has featured in a recent issue of New Scientist magazine

2013-02-01T14:13:00Z 2013-02-15T13:02:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2013/31Jan-sperm-dance-to-calciums-tune-en-route-to-egg.aspx Simon Levermore

Research within the School of Biosciences, funded by the BBSRC, is taking a long and detailed look at the fundamental molecular processes by which organisms shuffle and exchange their genes.

2012-12-20T09:31:00Z 2012-12-20T10:19:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/18Dec-turning-up-the-heat-on-plant-sex.aspx Simon Levermore

Information on Experimental Officer in NMR Metabolite Analysis

2012-11-20T13:03:00Z 2012-11-20T15:50:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/20Nov-Experimental-Officer-in-NMR-Metabolite-Analysis.aspx Simon Levermore

Information on Biosciences graduate wins John Innes Foundation research excellence award

2012-10-25T11:22:00Z 2012-10-30T15:01:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/25Oct-Biosciences-graduate-wins-John-Innes-Foundation-research-excellence-award.aspx Simon Levermore

Information on Biosciences staff to talk at Innovations in biosciences education workshop

2012-10-12T15:27:00Z 2012-10-12T15:01:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/11Oct-Biosciences-staff-to-talk-at-Innovations-in-biosciences-education-workshop.aspx Simon Levermore

Information on Biosciences Professor elected President of International Metabolomics Society

2012-10-05T13:20:00Z 2012-10-09T15:56:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/05Oct-Biosciences-Professor-elected-President-of-International-Metabolomics-Society.aspx Simon Levermore

Work on hydrogen fuel carried out by scientists within the School of Biosciences has recently been featured in podcasts on The Naked Scientists website.

2012-10-04T12:53:00Z 2012-10-04T12:39:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/04Oct-pioneering-work-hydrogen-fuels-birmingham-scientists.aspx Simon Levermore

To celebrate their investment in microscopy the West Midlands, the Science City Research Alliance (SCRA), is holding a one-day workshop to discuss recent technological advances in live cell imaging.

2012-09-13T18:49:00Z 2012-09-13T11:08:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/13Sep-Novel-Technologies-for-Live-Cell-Imaging-SCRA-Workshop.aspx Simon Levermore

Dr Scott Hayward from the School of Biosciences is to feature in Jimmy's Forest on More4, Monday 27th August at 9pm.

2012-08-20T11:13:00Z 2012-08-21T14:37:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/20Aug-biosciences-lecturer-features-in-Jimmys-Forest.aspx Simon Levermore

The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) today announced the award of funding for a research fellow to develop "eGUT: a Tool for Predictive Computer Simulation of the Gut Microbiota and Host Interactions"

2012-07-31T15:49:00Z 2012-07-31T15:45:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/31Jul-building-a-virtual-human-and-animal-gut.aspx Simon Levermore

The University of Birmingham's School of Biosciences announced today the launch of a £2 million (3 million US dollar) research initiative to build genomics and bioinformatics expertise for the emerging field of environmental genomics.

2012-07-18T14:56:00Z 2012-08-21T16:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/18-Jul-12-University-invests-2-Million-environmental-genomics-John-Colbourne.aspx Simon Levermore

Researchers within the Centre for Ornithology at the School of Biosciences are beginning to unravel the mysteries of where sooty terns go when they are not breeding on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

2012-07-03T12:59:00Z 2012-07-03T12:51:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/3Jul-help-our-researchers-track-sooty-terns.aspx Simon Levermore

Recent research carried out by scientists including several members of the Centre for Ornithology was featured on the BBC Springwatch programme on Wednesday 6 June 2012.

2012-06-07T16:46:00Z 2012-06-15T14:22:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/06Jun-Centre-for-Ornithology-paper-featured-in-BBC-Springwatch.aspx Simon Levermore

The work of School of Biosciences Artist in residence Franziska Schenk has been featured online by Scientific American. Fraziska's work is concerned with the complex interrelationship between humans and the natural world.

2012-04-27T09:30:00Z 2012-04-26T14:47:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/27Apr-Paintings-Made-with-Iridescent-Nanopaints-Change-Color-on-the-Spot.aspx Simon Levermore

Dr Susannah Thorpe is offering you the chance to 'be an orangutan for the day'. As a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biosciences, Susannah's research focuses on the association between animal form function and performance.

2012-04-26T14:37:00Z 2012-04-26T14:11:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/26Apr-Be-an-orangutan-for-the-day-with-one-of-our-academics.aspx Simon Levermore

A team from the University of Birmingham, led by Dr Tim Dafforn of the School of Biosciences, is developing a real-life version of Star Trek medic Dr McCoy's diagnostic marvel, the tricorder, using viruses that behave like spaghetti.

2012-04-26T14:37:00Z 2012-04-26T14:30:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/25Apr-Biosciences-team-develops-Star-Trek-tricorder.aspx Simon Levermore

The School of Biosciences was delighted to welcome Professor Alice Roberts, the new Professor of Public Engagement in Science, to present at the Bioscience Graduate Research School (BGRS) Symposium 2012.

2012-04-24T13:42:00Z 2012-04-26T14:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/24Apr-Professor-Alice-Roberts-presents-at-BGRS-Symposium-2012.aspx Simon Levermore

We seek to attract a PhD candidate of outstanding ability as part of a highly active research program lying at the interface of bioanalytical chemistry and environmental toxicology.

2012-03-29T14:50:00Z 2012-03-29T14:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/29Mar-PhD-Studentship-in-Bioanalytical-Chemistry.aspx Simon Levermore

The University of Birmingham has been recognised by the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, as it becomes one of the first universities in the UK to be awarded accreditation for its undergraduate Msci degree course in Biochemistry.

2012-03-22T12:20:00Z 2012-03-22T10:56:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/21-Mar-Bioscience-Accreditation.aspx Simon Levermore

Information on Meet our scientists at the ThinkTank Birmingham

2012-03-15T10:24:00Z 2012-03-15T10:21:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/13Mar-Meet-our-scientists-at-the-ThinkTank-Birmingham.aspx Simon Levermore

Dr Robin May, Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases and Lister Fellow at the School of Biosciences, was unanimously chosen by members of the Biochemical Society Awards Committee to be the 2013 recipient of the Colworth Medal.

2012-03-06T10:40:00Z 2012-03-08T12:27:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/05Mar-Biosciences-academic-to-receive-Colworth-Medal-in-2013.aspx Simon Levermore

The Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) will receive £4.5 million from the BBSRC. Match funding from the three universities will enable the partnership to fund up to 90 four-year PhD studentships over the next three academic years in important biological fields such as food security, industrial biotechnology and bio-energy.

2012-01-31T10:25:00Z 2012-01-31T13:51:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/31Jan-collaboration-receives-government-investment.aspx Simon Levermore

In a recent Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson talks to Dr Susannah Thorpe from the School of Biosciences about the similarities between the way Parkour, or free-running, athletes move about the urban environment and the way orang-utan get around their forest habitat.

2012-01-05T11:27:00Z 2012-07-10T10:35:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2012/05Jan-Parkour-and-orang-utans.aspx Simon Levermore

University of Birmingham academics from the School of Biosciences are joining forces with peers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) in a new research partnership focused on tackling tuberculosis (TB).

2011-12-14T11:00:00Z 2012-01-05T14:15:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2011/14Dec-UK-and-Indian-researchers-unite-to-fight-global-tuberculosis-epidemic.aspx Simon Levermore

The May Lab in the School of Biosciences is celebrating a double prize-winning week with two post-doctoral researchers, Kerstin Voelz and Rhiannon Pursall having their work recognised.

2011-09-08T14:19:00Z 2011-09-09T11:27:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2011/08Sep-Double-prize-winning-week-in-Biosciences-laboratory.aspx Simon Levermore

School of Biosciences alumna Hannah England has won a silver medal in the women's 1,500 metres at the 13th IAAF World Championships in Daegu. The Biochemistry graduate, who was awarded a first class degree in 2009, was with the main group of leaders on the final stretch before setting off wide and accelerating her way to a surprise second place.

2011-09-02T15:31:00Z 2011-09-09T16:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2011/02Sept-Biochemistry-Alumna-Hannah-England-takes-silver.aspx Simon Levermore

A gene network that controls repair to the central nervous system (CNS) after injury has been discovered in the fruit fly, Drosophila, by scientists at the University of Birmingham. This breakthrough may help to aid understanding of cell manipulation techniques necessary to repair damage to the human CNS, according to research published today (30 August) in the journal PLoS Biology.

2011-09-01T09:04:00Z 2011-10-18T09:18:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2011/30Aug-Scientists-uncover-gene-network-responsible-for-repair-of-the-central-nervous-system-of-the-fruit-fly.aspx Simon Levermore

Scientists from the University of Birmingham studying the effects of the widely-used pesticide fenitrothion, have discovered unexpected cell damage in a common freshwater fish, roach, exposed to the toxin.

2011-08-16T17:05:00Z 2011-08-16T17:03:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2011/05Aug11Molecularstudyshowsunexpectedeffectsoftoxin.aspx Simon Levermore

An international scientific effort, including scientists from the University of Birmingham, facilitated by social networking, has enabled the characterisation of the deadly strain of E. coli from the recent German outbreak within days, according to research published today (27 July) in the New England Journal of Medicine.

2011-08-12T16:58:00Z 2011-08-12T16:49:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2011/27July-Social-networking-and-crowdsourcing-aid-swift-characterisation-of-deadly-E-coli-strain.aspx Simon Levermore

Scientists from the University of Birmingham, led by Professor Chris Thomas (pictured right) of the School of Biosciences, and Bristol University have discovered how marine bacteria join together two antibiotics they make independently to produce a potent chemical that can kill drug-resistant strains of the MRSA superbug.

2011-07-12T13:34:00Z 2011-07-21T16:12:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/biosciences/news/2011/drugs-from-bugs.aspx