Xue Jiang Memorial Prize - Best Seminar Presentation 

• Rebecca Quinn

Xue Jiang Memorial Prize - Best Poster

• Joint winners - Mohammad Rejaur Rahman and Monique Rowson

Top 5 seminars (in no order)

• Isabel Aberdeen
• Raksha Gohel
• Rhianne Kelleher
• Tom MacCreath

Top 5 Posters (in no order)

• Sophie Jin
• Paulina Michor
• Megan Purchase
• Zuzana Paleckova

Well done all!

Aston student, Annelise Garrison, has published a review article in Frontier in Physiology. The paper is entitled as Pericytes: The lung-forgotten cell type. It can be viewed online Link opens in a new windowhere.

Birmingham Student, Catherine Evans, has published a paper in the journal, G3. The paper is entitled as Transcription factor retention through multiple polyploidization steps in wheat. It can be viewed onlineLink opens in a new window now.

Warwick Student, Paulina Michór, received a £7,990 bursary from the Medical and Life Sciences Research Fund (MLSRF) to conduct a project titled "Can we oversleep neuroprotection? Investigating circadian effects in the treatment of stroke".

Bimringham student, Asier R. Muguruza, has published a paper in the journal, Nanoscale Advances. The paper is entitled as Chelating silica nanoparticles for efficient antibiotic delivery and particle imaging in Gram-negative bacteria. It can be viewed onlineLink opens in a new window now.

Warwick student, Conor, has published a paper in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. The paper is entitled as Eomes function is conserved between zebrafish and mouse and controls left-right organiser progenitor gene expression via interlocking feedforward loops. It can be viewed onlineLink opens in a new window now.

Aston student Jaspreet has co-authored on a paper published the journal, Nature Communications. The paper is entitled as Nanotopography reveals metabolites that maintain the immunomodulatory phenotype of mesenchymal stromal cells. It can be viewed onlineLink opens in a new window now.

Birmingham student Bianca has published a paper in the journal, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The paper is entitled as Emotion processing in maltreated boys and girls: Evidence for latent vulnerability. It can be viewed onlineLink opens in a new window now.

Warwick student Jack was published in a journal, Neuropharmacology. The paper is entitled Channel-mediated ATP release in the nervous system and can be viewed onlineLink opens in a new window now.

The WATE PGR Cross Faculty Award celebrates the exceptional work of colleagues at a very early stage in their academic career, recognising educators who work across Faculty boundaries supporting university-wide projects or by working in interdisciplinary ways.
 
Commended - Zoi Ioannidou, third year MIBTP PhD student in Life Sciences. Zoi is currently studying on the Academic and Professional Pathway for Postgraduate Researchers who Teach (APP PGR) course.
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The WATE PGR SEM Faculty Award celebrates the exceptional work of colleagues at a very early stage, who teach and support learning in Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Winner - Niamh Harrington (MIBTP Warwick 2017 student), a microbiologist who has just completed her PhD. Niamh's research is focused on the development of a pig lung model for bacterial infections in Cystic Fibrosis.
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Warwick MIBTP graduate Dr Emily Hill is the winner of the Science, Engineering and Medicine (SEM) Faculty Thesis Prize for her thesis on 'Modulation of neuronal function by tau, alpha synuclein or carbon dioxide'. Her supervisor is Dr Mark Wall. View the thesisLink opens in a new window.

Dr Hill is now a Race Against Dementia ARUK (Alzheimer's Research UK) Research Fellow in SLS.

Final year Birmingham student Kish Adoni won 1st Prize at the UoB Biosciences Graduate Research Symposium 2022. Congratulations Kish.

MIBTP won big at the School of Life Sciences student symposium this year:

Xue Jiang Memorial Prize - Best Seminar Presentation voted by staff – wins £200

• Beth Richmond

Xue Jiang Memorial Prize - Best Poster voted by staff – wins £125

• Rhys Evans

Top 5 seminars (in no order) - win £50 each

• Helen Wilkinson
• Anjana Radhakrishnan

Top 5 Posters (in no order - win £25 each

• Rebecca Quinn
• Tom MacCreath
• Isabel Aberdeen
• Rhiannon Lyon

Well done all.

Third year Warwick student Thomas MacCreath was awarded Best Poster Presentation Prize from Access Microbiology at the recent Microbiology Society annual conference in Belfast. Congratulations Thomas.