Posted 27 July 2021 UK scientists designed world's most sophisticated COVID-19 sequencing system – here's how they did it New bioinformatics software and cloud computing approaches developed at the University of Birmingham, have enabled the UK's COVID-19 genome sequencing effort to be the most sophisticated in the world.
Posted 14 July 2021 Professor Gurdyal Besra FMedSci FRS to be new Microbiology Society President The Microbiology Society has announced that its new President will be Professor Gurdyal Besra FMedSci FRS from the University of Birmingham.
Posted 14 July 2021 Rapid evolution in waterfleas yields new conservation insights The extraordinary ability of animals to rapidly evolve in response to predators has been demonstrated via genetic sequencing of a waterflea population across nearly two decades.