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 Professor recognised for excellence in research
Biosciences Professor recognised for excellence in research
Description
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.
Date:
07/05/2013
Biosciences Professor to talk at First International Environmental 'Omics Synthesis Conference
Biosciences Professor to talk at First International Environmental 'Omics Synthesis Conference
Description
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.
Date:
23/04/2013
School scientists team up with Thermo Fisher Scientific for life science research
Description
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.
Date:
23/04/2013
UK-China collaboration to establish new computational resources for metabolomics
Description
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.
Date:
19/04/2013
Dr Robin May to present 50th Colworth Medal Lecture
Dr Robin May to present 50th Colworth Medal Lecture
Description
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.
Date:
15/02/2013
Activating Impact and Innovator of the Year finalists announced
Description
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.
Date:
05/02/2013
Sperm dance to calcium's tune en route to egg - Biosciences research
Description
Research by Dr Steve Publicover of the School of Biosciences has featured in a recent issue of New Scientist magazine
Date:
01/02/2013
Turning up the heat on plant sex
Turning up the heat on plant sex
Description
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.
Date:
20/12/2012
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