MCSB Events
Poster Session
2nd Year PGR students poster session, held on Thursday 21st March.
2012-13 MCSB Seminar series
Davidson Lecture Theatre, 1-2pm.
MCSB News
Quantum carotenoids – how pigment’s ‘dark state’ helps turn light into energy
Researchers at the Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, shed light on the workings of carotenoids.
Nanokicking stem cells to open for new generation of orthopaedics
New research has shown that it is possible to grow new bone by 'nanokicking' stem cells 1,000 times ber second using high frequency vibrations.
BBC News
Research on nano kicking stem cells, by the Centre for Cell Engineering is featured on Reporting Scotland.
Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowships
Professor Gareth Jenkins is one of nine University researchers elected to RSE.
Poster prize
Two 2012 placement students have been awarded a prize for their Glasgow & Hwa Chong Institution project.
£5m Frontier Engineering grant to safeguard world's water
A team of biologists, chemists and engineers from the University of Glasgow has received a major grant to study how cutting-edge technology could help avert a future crisis in water supply and treatment.
New Research Fellow
Dr Kennethy Halberg will be joining the Dow/Davies lab in March.
'Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy'
Dr John Pediani attends the 5th European Short Course in Berlin, Germany.
Poster Prize
Congratulations to one of our PhD students, Rachel Martin, on winning the Runner-up prize at the Royal Society of Chemistry's 41st Scottish Regional Organic Division Meeting!
Bower Power!
Huge success recently from staff in the plant science group with grant applications to BBSRC.
A platform for rapid and precise DNA module rearrangements in Synthetic Biology
Professor Marshall Stark awarded a £4.0M grant to establish a sophisticated new methodology for creating useful microorganism strains.
BBSRC Business Newsletter
Research from Professor Cogdell's lab specially featured in BBSRC Business Autumn Newsletter.
Research in collaboration with Dr Matt Dalby and surgeons at Glasgow Southern General also featured in the BBSRC Business Autumn Newsletter. More information on this exciting research is also featured on the University Newspage.
Nature Materials
Nature Materials has selected the 2007 paper 'The control of human mesenchymal cell defferentiation using nanoscale symmetry and disorder' by Matthew J. Dalby et al. as one of 20 landmark articles they published in their first 10 years.
Converge Challenge
Congratulations to Dr Ekaterina McKenna, being awarded the second prize in the Converge Challenge business plan competition!
The search for novel insecticides
Article by Professors Julian Dow and Shireen Davies featured in Food Security in International Innovations.
Newsnight
Dr Matt Dalby from Cell Engineering, appears on Newsnight Scotland!
Grants
Congratulations to all staff who have been awarded grants in this competitve climate.