Chiara Pantarelli, a 3rd year PhD student in Heidi Welch's group at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø took part in a recent Media Training day to help her to build her skills in talking to a wide audience about her research.
At this special festive time, Tacita Croucher, the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø's Public Engagement Manager reflects on the public engagement work our staff and students have been organising and participating in this year.
About a month ago Esther van Vliet joined the Public Engagement team at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø as a maternity cover to work on the , a Horizon2020 European Commission funded project that aims to explore new ways to open up the way the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø does research. Her baptism of fire happened last week at the annual conference ENGAGE.
Michael Hinton muses on the ENGAGE Conference, run by the
The ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø’s basic science benefits in a very real sense from the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø's proximity to a number of industry-leading biotechnology companies on the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø Research Campus. In this blog Rahul Roychoudhuri tells us about a developing partnership between our Immunology Programme and Cancer Research UK Therapeutic Discovery Laboratories.
Alex Harvey, an Animal Technician in the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø’s animal unit (BSU) describes how she joined Boo Virk (a postdoc in the Casanueva Group) and Dori Horkai (a PhD student in the Houseley Group) and the Public Engagement team's Michael Hinton in the third year of a collaboration with in the Netherlands.
The ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø’s Symposium for Biological Life Sciences (SymBLS) for early career researchers is a well established forum for Life Science graduates across Cambridge. This year’s organising committee share their thoughts on the 2017 event and give us a ‘behind the scenes’ look at what it takes to run this excellent event.
Becky Gilley, a post doc in the Cook lab is the latest KEC blog contributor. Becky has been involved in a ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø Research Campus Collaboration Fund (BRCCF) project which has gone from strength to strength. Her blog tells us why the BRCCF has been critical in securing further ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø and what this collaborative research project has meant to her.
John Pascall, who is a regular contributor to the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø's Public Engagement activities, describes the challenges of going back to school at .
James Tooze, Policy Officer at the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), takes up the reigns in this latest KEC post. In his guest blog, James tells us about the partnership between CaSE and the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø and explains why scientists’ engagement in policy is so important.
In our third and final Innovative Training Network (ITN) KEC Blog series, we hear from visiting PhD student Piotr KobiaÅ‚ka on his recent knowledge exchange visit to the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø. Piotr is a PhD student in Dr Mariona Graupera’s lab in (Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge) in Barcelona. He tells us why this visit helped his research and why researcher mobility is so important to advance scientific programmes:
Prof. Wolf Reik, Associate Director of the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø and Head of the Epigenetics Research Programme was part of a team of scientists who took a new exhibit on Epigenetics to Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form College in October.
We are very proud to share this latest KEC blog by Babaraham ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø post docs, Clara Novo, Danika Hill and Claire Senner. In a drive to bring the International postdoc community together, our BI pioneers tell us exactly how they established the first EU-LIFE joint postdoc retreat.
In the second of our ITN (Innovative Training Network) blog series, PhD student in ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø’s Signalling Programme, Piotr Jung, lab tells us why this program is so important for advancing knowledge of key biological concepts.
Zahra Fahmi, a researcher in the Lipkow laboratory, describes her involvement in the Chromos project showcase at the ‘CelluLates’ event at the Science Museum, London
As he starts to plan Schools' Day for 2018, Michael Hinton, part of the Public Engagement team, looks back at the event in previous years and reports views from students, teachers and from both junior and senior researchers who run projects on the day.
Guest blogger Ella Willsmore, a student at , describes her experiences at the conference in Cambridge, during which she won a prize for her poster, which outlined her work with Olivia Casanueva's group on a project.
In the first of our series of KEC Blogs from Innovative Training Network (ITN) students, we hear from PhD student Christina Courreges about her involvement and the legacy of a recent workshop held at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø.
As one of the sponsors of the first National Post Doc meeting held in Cambridge recently, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø are proud to report on the success of the event. BI Post doc and co-organiser, Dr Sven Sewitz, shares his view of the event and tells us what plans are in store for next year.
The public engagement programme at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø seeks to engage people of all ages. As well as working with school students and teachers, the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø interacts with adult community groups from across Cambridgeshire. Here Tacita, the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø’s Public Engagement Manager, discusses a recent event with the Pampisford Society.
The Cambridge Bioinformatics Hackathon is underway and already generating lots of ideas and solving bioinformatics-based problems. In this latest KEC blog, guest editor, Kevin Dialdestoro from Genestak, tells us what he is expecting from the event and why Genestak was keen to support this and (hopefully) future Hackathons.
What is it like returning to work after parental leave? Two returners, Laura Biggins and Laura Norton, write about their recent experiences at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø.
Shaun Png is another undergraduate on a summer placement, working in Rahul Roychoudhuri's group. He explains how it's not just being at the bench that makes the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø a great place to work.
As part of their knowledge exchange activities, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø Group Leaders travel far and wide to discuss their research findings. In this latest blog, Dr Jon Houseley explains why a niche conference in Rome was exactly the right platform to promote his recently published work and build scientific support for a potentially controversial ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøy.