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Joel Alves and Frank Jiggins explore how Darwin’s rabbit helps to explain the fightback against myxomatosis through natural selection

5 March 2019

Nearly seventy years after myxomatosis decimated the rabbit populations of Australia, Britain and France, a new study reveals how the species has evolved genetic resistance to the disease through natural selection. Images and a copy of the paper can be downloaded from DropBox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j7602mx2zd4nebu/...

Head of Department wins Feldberg Prize

9 January 2019

We are delighted to announce that Anne Ferguson-Smith, Head of Department, was awarded the 2019 Feldberg Prize. The purpose of the Feldberg Foundation is the promotion of scientific contact between German and English scientists within the sphere of experimental medical research, in particular in physiology, pharmacology...

New research from the Department of Genetics challenges the prevalence of mammalian epigenetic inheritance across generations - Including new interviews

26 October 2018

Differences in traits between individuals are predominantly genetically conferred. However, evidence from human population studies and experiments in animal models suggests that environmentally induced phenotypic changes might be transmitted across generations via non-genetic mechanisms. This has important implications for...

Department of Genetics researchers use stem cells to build synthetic embryo-like structures - and see Dr David Turner video

5 October 2018

Research published in Nature online this week [1] describes the remarkable organisation of ‘gastruloids’, small aggregates of mouse Pluripotent Stem Cells that, when grown in the lab, develop a spatial and temporal organization of gene expression that mirrors much of what happens in early embryos [2]. The work is the...

Felipe Karam Teixeira awarded HFSPO Career Development funding

23 July 2018

Group Leader Felipe Karam Teixeira is one of 11 scientists to attain a Career Development Award from the Human Frontier Science Program Organisation (HFSPO). This international programme of research support is based in Strasbourg, France. Its goal is to fund frontier research focused on complex biological systems and to...

Bioinformatics in Sierra Leone via Raspberry Pi

19 July 2018

In June 2018, Sudhakaran Prabakaran travelled to Africa to conduct a teaching workshop on machine learning algorithms at the University of Sierra Leone in Freetown. Because of limited resources in the computational lab where this was arranged, participants were able to access course materials prepared by Prabakaran Lab...

Pint of Science 2017 spawns successful science/art collaborations

28 June 2017

Members of the Department of Genetics, Aylwyn Scally , Sudhakaran Prabakaran and Ruchi Chauhan participated in Cambridge Pint of Science, 16-18 May 2017. Pint of Science events now take place annually in 26 cities across the UK, and in 10 other countries worldwide. Scientists talk about their work in the convivial...

Influenza virus evolution within a human host

8 February 2017

Each year millions of people worldwide are infected with the influenza virus. New research conducted by Chris Illingworth in the Department of Genetics has shed light on an important process by which the virus evolves. The genetic material of an influenza virus is contained on eight genetic segments. During an infection...

Postgraduate Open Day - 2 November 2016

11 October 2016

The Department of Genetics will be hosting a display of posters as part of the first University Of Cambridge Graduate Open Day on Wednesday 2 November 2016 from 1.30 pm onwards. Throughout the day and across the University, there will be a variety of subject presentations, sample lectures, facility tours, and opportunities...

Praise for 'the Humble Fruit Fly' in the Observer

26 September 2016

In an article appearing in the Observer on 25 Sept 2016, ' In praise of the humble fruit fly ', Andrew Anthony explains why Drosophila is so important in medical research, and how the Department of Genetics has played - and continues to play - a key role in that research. Fly Facility Manager Simon Collier took the...

Joel Alves and Frank Jiggins explore how Darwin’s rabbit helps to explain the fightback against myxomatosis through natural selection

Head of Department wins Feldberg Prize

New research from the Department of Genetics challenges the prevalence of mammalian epigenetic inheritance across generations - Including new interviews

Department of Genetics researchers use stem cells to build synthetic embryo-like structures - and see Dr David Turner video

Felipe Karam Teixeira awarded HFSPO Career Development funding

Bioinformatics in Sierra Leone via Raspberry Pi

Pint of Science 2017 spawns successful science/art collaborations

Influenza virus evolution within a human host

Postgraduate Open Day - 2 November 2016

Praise for 'the Humble Fruit Fly' in the Observer

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