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Research in Genetics Day poster prizes awarded to Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti and Belgin Yalcin

11 December 2013

After this year's very successful Research in Genetics Day on Thursday 5th December, came the presentation for the best poster by a Postgraduate student. It was decided to award two prizes, and these went to: Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti - 'SUMOylation of topoisomerase 2α influences its localisation to the mitotic...

Mary Cleaton wins Mammalian Genome Prize

3 December 2013

Congratulations to Mary Cleaton, a PhD student in the Ferguson-Smith lab, for being awarded the Mammalian Genome Prize at the Mammalian Genetics and Development Workshop held on 21 st November 2013 at the Institute of Child Health in London. Mary’s presentation was entitled ‘Investigating the source and function of...

Quantifying ES cells : New paper from the Martinez Arias Group

9 October 2013

Pluripotency refers to the property of a cell population to give rise to all cell types of an organism. Embryonic Stem (ES) cells are pluripotent and are able to self renew this property in culture. ES cells have become an important focus of research. From the biomedical point of view because they hold a promise for...

Floceleris wins Carpe Diem Prize

3 October 2013

Damian Crowther and colleagues have won the 2013 Carpe Diem Life Science Award for the best startup company, in the University of Cambridge's Entrepreneurs Business Creation Competition. Their company, Floceleris, is developing a pre-symptomatic test to capture and measure the seeded aggregation of amlydoid beta peptides...

Head of Department handover

2 October 2013

On 1 October, Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith took over as Head of the Department of Genetics. Dr Cahir O'Kane stood down after 4 years of service. A small handover celebration was held in the Department. Cahir O'Kane thanks members of the Department for their support Anne Ferguson-Smith thanks Cahir O'Kane for a smooth...

Cellular Polarity : Special issue of Royal Society Phil Trans B

19 September 2013

Rafael Carazo Salas and colleagues have produced a special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, available online on 23 September 2013, and in print in November. Papers in it are based on the recent Royal Society meeting entitled 'Cellular polarity : from mechanisms to disease'. They cover current and...

Naomi Moris wins EuroStemCell prize

6 September 2013

Naomi Moris, a Graduate student in the Martinez Arias Group has won the prize for the graphic non-fiction section in the EuroStemCell stem cell writing competition for 2013. Her entry, 'Getting the Ball Rolling' explains how scientists can use stem cells to answer fundamental questions. Read more, and get a pdf of 'Getting...