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Read more at: New paper from Aylwyn Scally & colleagues reveals long-term decline in gorilla populations
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New paper from Aylwyn Scally & colleagues reveals long-term decline in gorilla populations

10 April 2015

Appearing in 'Science' this week is a paper by Aylwyn Scally and colleagues, 'Mountain gorilla genomes reveal the impact of long-term population decline and inbreeding' . Genomes were sequenced and compared, showing that some sub-species have suffered population decline for thousands of years, which has led to further...


Read more at: Carazo Salas Group awarded funding to provide next generation image repository

Carazo Salas Group awarded funding to provide next generation image repository

16 February 2015

The Carazo Salas Group has been awarded a BBSRC Big Data Award as part of the Research Council's push to investigate methods to cope with big data challenges in the biosciences. The Group will be involved in the project to build a next generation image data repository, led by Dundee's Jason Swedlow and in collaboration...


Read more at: Matching rare disease screening needs to labs

Matching rare disease screening needs to labs

6 January 2015

Two past Department of Genetics graduate students now working as PostDocs at the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, have set up a business which intends to cut the time often required before a diagnosis of a rare diseases can be reached. Through the normal channels, this process can sometimes take years. In February, Jelena...


Read more at: Congratulations to Research in Genetics 2014 poster winners

Congratulations to Research in Genetics 2014 poster winners

5 December 2014

Another excellent Research in Genetics day was held on 4 December, with talks illustrating the wide variety of research undertaken in the Department. Posters were also presented, and the winners were announced as Christian Schroeter and Zhiang Guo, with commendations for Melissa Antoniou Kourouniotis and Peter Baillie-...


Read more at: Shaping up : Two papers in 'Development' from the Martinez Arias Group
Shaping up : Two papers in 'Development' from the Martinez Arias Group

Shaping up : Two papers in 'Development' from the Martinez Arias Group

5 November 2014

Members of the Martinez Arias Lab in the Department of Genetics have been able to reconstruct the early stage of mammalian development using embryonic stem cells, showing that a critical mass of cells is needed for the cells to being self-organising into the correct structure for an embryo to form. The research is...


Read more at: Imaging the Genome : And now hear the Podcast

Imaging the Genome : And now hear the Podcast

5 November 2014

The quest to understand the fundamental rules governing life has taken another step forward, as new research in the Department of Genetics, and published in 'Developmental Cell' this month, demonstrates. In this Naked Scientist Podcast, Timothy Revell interviews Group Leader Dr. Rafael Carazo Salas and lab member Jonathan...


Read more at: Imaging the Genome : New paper from the Carazo Salas Group
Imaging the Genome : New paper from the Carazo Salas Group

Imaging the Genome : New paper from the Carazo Salas Group

28 October 2014

Until very recently, studies of living systems have been forced to take a very focused approach to understanding the world around us. Classical genetics has typically been limited to the dissection and understanding of individual genes or pathways. This approach can only teach us so much about cellular systems, it is self-...


Read more at: New BBSRC-DTP Award

New BBSRC-DTP Award

6 October 2014

Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced the awarding of the Government's new BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) for 1,250 PhD students. Under this scheme the University of Cambridge will receive £15 million over 5 years, part of which may fund Postgraduate training in the School of Biological Sciences...


Read more at: Completing Graduate Students

Completing Graduate Students

2 October 2014

Congratulations to all of the 2010 cohort of Graduate students who submitted their theses before the deadline : Cristina Ariani Darya Ausiannikava Chuan Cao Aikaterini Chatzipli Enrico Ferrero Hannah Gaimster Timm Haack Grace Kaushal Mingwei Min Shing Wei Ng Stanislav Ott William Palmer Christine Weber


Read more at: Alfonso Martinez Arias on Publishing : What, Why and How

Alfonso Martinez Arias on Publishing : What, Why and How

20 August 2014

Alfonso Martinez Arias participated in a workshop on 'Responsible Research' at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitet in Munich (Germany), discussing the world of biomedical publishing; how it has changed over the last few years, leading to a problematic gridlock; how these changes affect the careers of researchers and...


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