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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...

Postgraduate Open Day - 2 November 2016

13 September 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 until approx 2.30 pm Visitors will also be able to chat to Group Leaders and current Graduate students a about study options and life in the Department...

PLM11 - Physics of Living Matter Symposium, 22-23 Sept

11 August 2016

The 11th Physics of Living Matter Symposium will be held on 22 - 23 September at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The series was launched in 2006 to promote the interface between the Life and Physical Sciences in Cambridge. Since then interest has grown considerably and the Symposia are now...

Alex Patto and Tianheng Zhao interviewed on Cambridge TV about Waterscope

21 July 2016

See Alex Patto from the Department of Genetics, and Waterscope co-founder Tianheng Zhao, discussing their water testing kit on Cambridge TV >> http://www.cambridge-tv.co.uk/alexander-patto-and-tianheng-zhao-waterscope/ >> More information about Waterscope

Waterscope water testing kit wins award, launches 13 June

26 May 2016

Alex Patto , a member of the O'Kane Group , was part of the team who won £5,000 in the Social Enterprise category for their business plan for Waterscope at the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs event in May. Waterscope, developed by members of the Department of Physics Dr Richard Bowman, Dr Nalin Patel and Tianheng Zhao...