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Prabakaran Group Publications

8 December 2020

The Prabakaran group has identified, cataloged, and classified protein translations from noncoding genomic regions of multiple organisms. Their work, which is to appear in three separate publications (see below), shows that these ‘novel’ genomic regions cannot be defined by our current understanding or definition of a gene...

Cambridge Technology-Enabled Learning Prize 2020

10 November 2020

Cambridge University Press have announced the winners of the 2020 Technology-Enabled Learning Prize. The prize for Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths & Medicine (STEMM), goes to Dr Matt Castle and his team, for the PSLS Biostatistics Initiative Core Statistics Course. The GSLS Biostatistics course supports life...

Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2

3 November 2020

Work led by Megan O'Driscoll , from the Salje group, was published in Nature on 02 November 2020 highlighting the age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2. Among a range of results, it shows that infection fatality rates are very consistent across ages for those <65y across countries but very different...

Alfonso Martinez-Arias and Naomi Moris receive MRC and AMED Award

25 September 2020

Professor Alfonso Martinez-Arias and Dr Naomi Moris have received an award from the Medical Research (MRC) and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) in collaboration with Dr Cantas Alev to use their human gastruloid system to study somitogenesis associated birth defects. The below image provides an...

Salje Group COVID-19 Research

8 September 2020

Dr Henrik Salje provides us with a summary of the work being done by his group in relation to COVID19: SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, continues to spread, causing substantial burden on public health worldwide. We have been working closely with researchers at Institut Pasteur in analysing hospitalisation...

Uncovering the structural basis for intrinsic asymmetry in the spindle pathway under cyclin-dependent kinase control

7 September 2020

A new study from the Segal group uncovers the structural basis for intrinsic asymmetry in the spindle pathway under cyclin-dependent kinase control Cell division gives rise to two progeny cells carrying copies of the progenitor's genetic material. In so call symmetric divisions, daughter cells also share the progenitor's...

Course change statement issued for incoming Part II students

30 July 2020

Statement on Part II Genetics teaching for 2020-2021 Due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and government guidance, we have had to make some changes to the programme in order to mitigate against risks to health and to give you the best possible academic experience in the circumstances. We will continue to monitor and...

Dr Gos Micklem promoted to Professor

25 June 2020

We would like to offer our warmest congratulations to Gos Micklem who has been promoted to Professor in the most recent round of the Senior Academic Promotions exercise. Gos will be the Professor of Computational and Molecular Biology. The formal announcement is listed in the Cambridge University Reporter, 24 June 2020.

Philip Oliver - St Catherine's College and retired Lecturer in the Department of Genetics

16 June 2020

It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Philip Oliver on Saturday 13 June 2020. Philip retired from Genetics in 2012. David Summers remembers Philip here: Dr Philip Oliver: a personal reflection I first crossed paths with Philip Oliver when I came to Cambridge as a Natural Sciences undergraduate in 1974. I...

N. Moris and A. Martinez Arias group develop ESC based model of early human development

10 June 2020

Scientists from the Department of Genetics, in collaboration with the Hubrecht Institute in The Netherlands, have developed a new model to study an early stage of human development, using human embryonic stem cells. The model resembles some key elements of an embryo at around 18-21 days old and allows the researchers to...

Prabakaran Group Publications

Cambridge Technology-Enabled Learning Prize 2020

Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2

Alfonso Martinez-Arias and Naomi Moris receive MRC and AMED Award

Salje Group COVID-19 Research

Uncovering the structural basis for intrinsic asymmetry in the spindle pathway under cyclin-dependent kinase control

Course change statement issued for incoming Part II students

Dr Gos Micklem promoted to Professor

Philip Oliver - St Catherine's College and retired Lecturer in the Department of Genetics

N. Moris and A. Martinez Arias group develop ESC based model of early human development

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