We recently caught up with four students from the School of Biosciences who were involved in last year’s gold medal winning iGEM team. Our first interviewee … Read more
Research Seminar: Anti-metastatic drug discovery to tackle unmet medical need
Dr. Andy Westwell, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University Tuesday 2nd February, 1.00 p.m., Cornwallis Octagon Lecture Theatre 2 (COLT2) The seminar will … Read more
Research Seminar: From the translatome to the small proteome
Dr. Juan Mata, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge Tuesday 26th January, 1.00 p.m., Cornwallis Octagon Lecture Theatre 2 Sexual development in the fission yeast … Read more
Research Seminar: Intracellular parasitism: how pathogenic fungi hijack the immune system.
Professor Robin May, School of Biosciences and Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham Tuesday 19th January, 1.00 p.m., Cornwallis Octagon Lecture Theatre 2 … Read more
‘Dipstick’ test tackles fatal sleeping sickness
Researchers from the School of Biosciences have developed a quick and simple diagnosis method, similar to a dipstick pregnancy test, to fight a deadly sleeping sickness. The … Read more
Research offers potential new treatment for children’s cancer
The team, including Professor Martin Michaelis and Dr Mark Wass at Kent’s School of Biosciences, found that flubendazole – a drug used against parasitic worms … Read more
Making the most of student life at Kent
At the School of Biosciences we pride ourselves in both our excellent teaching and cutting edge research. But while studying is undoubtedly a core part … Read more
Research Seminar: Mechanisms and Pathways of Microbe-Host Crosstalk in the GI-Tract
Professor Simon Carding, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Tuesday 15th December, 1.00 p.m., Keynes Lecture Theatre 6 It is becoming clear that crosstalk between the … Read more
Stacey Fund supports student’s Amazon field trip
Amy Gallimore, a 2015 UG student from the School of Biosciences, set off with the British Exploration Society on the trip of a lifetime during … Read more
Research Seminar: Mechanisms of autophagy in cell death and cancer
Professor Kevin Ryan, Tumour Cell Death Laboratory, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow. Tuesday 8th December, 1.00 p.m. Keynes Lecture Theatre 6 Inactivation of … Read more