by nick | Feb 14, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster – The Seeds We Sow And The Grain We Reap Much of the world’s population is dependent on just a few crops, with blight and disease an ever-present threat. Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, after many years researching...
by nick | Feb 14, 2017 | Life Sciences & Biology
Professor Marc Bramkamp – Understanding How Bacterial Cells Organise In Space And Time Professor Marc Bramkamp of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, is at the forefront of research into the growth, division and chromosome organisation of...
by nick | Feb 14, 2017 | Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences
Professor Paul Dent – Developing Cancer Killing Combinations Professor Paul Dent is committed to taking an idea from the bench to the bedside. He is doing just that by designing clinical trials that investigate how drugs can combine and synergise to kill tumour...
by nick | Feb 12, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Professor Karl Forchhammer – Awakening Sleeping Bacteria Professor Karl Forchhammer and his colleagues analyse how cyanobacteria can survive and recover from long periods of starvation. They use the model strain Synechocystis PCC 6803, a non-diazotrophic,...
by nick | Feb 11, 2017 | Engineering & Computer Science, Life Sciences & Biology, Medical & Health Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience
Professor William W. Lytton – Uniting Biology And Maths To Understand The Human Brain Neurologist and computational neuroscientist Professor Bill Lytton and his colleagues at the Neurosimulation Laboratory of the State University of New York in Brooklyn are...
by nick | Feb 11, 2017 | Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Clare Kirkpatrick – The Toxin-Antitoxin System With A Few Tricks Up Its Sleeve Dr Clare Kirkpatrick’s research has led to the discovery of a bacterial toxin-antitoxin system with unique features. This information can be used in future studies to identify...
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