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Dr Ben Steventon on Open Research with Wellcome

18 February 2020

Dr Ben Steventon has been recently appointed to the Wellcome Trust Open Reseach early career advisory board. The aim of this group is to inform the Wellcome Trust about specific issues faced by early career researchers when publishing and sharing their research output through open research publishing initiatives such as...

CANCELLED - Cambridge Science Festival 2020

28 January 2020

CANCELLED Unfotunately our event as part of the Science Festival 2020 has had to be cancelled due to safety precautions relating to the COVID-19 virus. The Department of Genetics are delighted to open their doors again for the Cambridge Science Festival. We will be running a family-friendly event on 14 March 2020 from 11am...

Professor Durbin leads Cambridge University's collaboration with the Darwin Tree of Life Project

7 November 2019

Professor Richard Durbin will lead Cambridge University's involvement with the Darwin Tree of Life Project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Giving an insight into the diverse range of species on the British Isles. The £9.4m funding will support a collaboration of ten research institutes, museums and associated organisations...

Genetics at the Big Biology Day

10 October 2019

Members of the Department took part in the Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form on 05 October 2019. Attendees got to play an interactive game to show what a large number of biologists do daily, identify common Drosophila melanogaster phenotypes. They also played a game where they identified different species of fruit...

Dr Henrik Salje Appointed as University Lecturer

9 September 2019

The Department of Genetics takes great pleasure in announcing that Dr Henrik Salje will be joining the Department as a University Lecturer from October 2019. Dr Henrik S alje is joining us from the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit at Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he heads a research group, and is also...

Genetics Society Centenary Celebrations

4 July 2019

Centernary celebrations were hosted at the John Innes Conference Centre on Tuesday 25 June 2019. Posters designed for our Saunders Lecture 2018 were displayed during the celebrations (pictured above). The posters were very much appreciated and attendees commented on how much they had learnt through these. The Director of...

Ben Steventon joins the ERC Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research

27 June 2019

As part of their continued drive towards promoting open access publishing, and the open sharing of research data, the Wellcome trust have launched an online platform called “Wellcome Open Research”. This provides all Wellcome researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing. All articles...

Shikha Gupta wins best poster at Quantitative Genomics 2019

13 June 2019

Congratulations to Shikha Gupta, a PhD student in the Pina group, who won best poster at the Quantitative Genomics 2019 meeting, held on 10 June at the Francis Crick Institute. Title- Kat2a loss promotes pre-leukaemia to leukaemia transition with increased transcriptional heterogeneity Authors- Shikha Gupta 1, Ana Filipa...

Mental Health Awareness Week

14 May 2019

This is Mental Health Awareness week ( https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk for more details) To mark this event in Genetics we have a donation box in the Tea Room with some Mental Health Foundation green ribbon badges which you can wear to raise awareness and show your support for good mental health for all. A Team Logo Quiz...

Professor Richard Durbin elected member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

24 April 2019

We are pleased to announce that Professor Richard Durbin has been elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as one of 42 new International Honorary Members. The 2019 class is drawn from 127 institutions across 25 states and 23 countries. Information about the other newly elected members is available on...

Dr Ben Steventon on Open Research with Wellcome

CANCELLED - Cambridge Science Festival 2020

Professor Durbin leads Cambridge University's collaboration with the Darwin Tree of Life Project

Genetics at the Big Biology Day

Dr Henrik Salje Appointed as University Lecturer

Genetics Society Centenary Celebrations

Ben Steventon joins the ERC Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research

Shikha Gupta wins best poster at Quantitative Genomics 2019

Mental Health Awareness Week

Professor Richard Durbin elected member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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