Laura Petch, a final year PhD student in the Kent Fungal Group supervised by Mick Tuite, has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 … Read more
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Expanding the prion universe: prions encoded by viruses
Prions have typically a bad press being largely implicated as the infectious agents linked to fatal brain degeneration in humans and farm animals. It turns … Read more
Summer internships
Summer 2018 saw a successful return of the School of Biosciences funded internship programme, with 11 students taking part in a wide variety of projects … Read more
Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
Professor Mick Tuite from the School of Biosciences has been elected to a Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology. The Academy, the honorific leadership group … Read more
Dr. Barrie Rooney wins BBSRC Social Innovator of the Year Award
Congratulations to Dr Barrie Rooney, Postdoctoral Researcher from the School of Biosciences who won the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ‘Social Innovator of … Read more
Kent bioscientists celebrate success of Canterbury school science project
Bioscientists from the University of Kent and staff and pupils from the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury celebrated the success of a … Read more
New insights into what makes prions infectious
Prions are a remarkable type of disease-causing agent being entirely composed of protein. Nevertheless they are able to replicate themselves once in their host but … Read more
The 3rd Annual Stacey Symposium, School of Biosciences
“Careers Outside the Laboratory” The School of Biosciences will be holding the 3rd Stacey Symposium on the afternoon of 8 April 2013. The theme of … Read more