News and Events

Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Biosciences.
 

Seminars & Events

Listeria monocytogenes: new insights in a multifaceted model
Date
28/05/2013 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Lecture Theatre NG08 - Biosciences Building
Description
Speaker: Professor Pascale Cossart, Institut Pasteur, Paris
DNA Supercoiling and the regulation of virulence in Campylobacter jejuni
Date
04/06/2013 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
Lecture Theatre NG08 - Biosciences Building
Description
Speaker: Dr Tadhg O'Croinin, University College Dublin
Understanding the potential for species to adapt to climate change: can genetic and genomic analyses help?
Date
04/06/2013 (15:00-16:00)
Location:
Lecture Theatre NG08 - Biosciences Building
Description
Speaker: Professor Ary Hoffman, University of Melbourne
Doctoral Researcher-led Conference on Cell Division
Date
10/06/2013 (10:00-17:00)
Location:
Lecture Theatre E102 - Biosciences Building, Undercroft - School of Biosciences (R27 on campus map)
Description
This conference is organized by PhD students for the scientific community of Biosciences in UK and will cover several topics in cell division of prokaryotes and eukaryotes, e.g. cell elongation, chromosome segregation and gene expression.

News

Biosciences degree awarded prestigious accreditation
Description
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.
Date:
22/03/2012
Biosciences academic to receive 2013 Colworth Medal
Description
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.
Date:
06/03/2012
Birmingham-Warwick-Leicester collaboration receives £4.5 million Government investment
Description
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.
Date:
31/01/2012
Parkour and orang-utans - Dr Susannah Thorpe discusses how orang-utans get around the forest
Parkour and orang-utans - Dr Susannah Thorpe discusses how orang-utans get around the forest
Description
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.
Date:
05/01/2012
UK and Indian researchers unite to fight global tuberculosis epidemic
Description
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).
Date:
14/12/2011
Double prize-winning week in Biosciences laboratory
Double prize-winning week in Biosciences laboratory
Description
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.
Date:
08/09/2011
Biochemistry alumna Hannah England takes silver at the World Championships
Biochemistry alumna Hannah England takes silver at the World Championships
Description
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.
Date:
02/09/2011
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