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Phoebe do Carmo Silva - First Place Prize

Warwick student Phoebe do Carmo Silva has won first prize for the poster she presented at the annual meeting of the National PhD Training Programme in Antimicrobial Resistance. The title is Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae grows as a biofilm in synthetic cystic fibrosis sputum media.

Tue 05 Sep 2023, 12:34 | Tags: award

Science Communication Workshop Training' 23

The 2022 cohort students were asked to produce a short Podcast or Video, and the winners were:

Joint 1st Prize Winners:

Joint 2nd Prize Winners:

Congratulations!

Wed 24 May 2023, 11:42 | Tags: award

Symposium Winners' 23

Winners of Symposium 2023 are:

2nd year Poster:

  • Holly Gedling

3rd Year Talks:

  • Max Schwarze
  • Jessica Webster
  • Millie (Camilla) Preece
  • Molly Gracey

Plenary:

  • 1st: Chris Shave
  • 2nd: Asier Rodriguez Muguruza

Congratulations!

Wed 24 May 2023, 10:32 | Tags: award

MIBTP Students Achievement at SLS Postgraduate Symposium' 23

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!

Fri 14 Apr 2023, 13:47 | Tags: award

Paulina Michór - Received a grant

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".

Tue 28 Mar 2023, 10:55 | Tags: award, Grant

Zoi Ioannidou WATE PGR Cross Faculty Award

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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Thu 30 Jun 2022, 11:00 | Tags: award

Niamh Harrington WATE PGR SEM Faculty Award

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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Thu 30 Jun 2022, 10:58 | Tags: award

Emily Hill SEM Faculty Thesis Prize 2022

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.

Sun 19 Jun 2022, 18:53 | Tags: award

Kish Adoni best talk award

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

Sun 19 Jun 2022, 18:39 | Tags: award

Warwick SLS Student Symposium winners

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.

Sun 19 Jun 2022, 18:36 | Tags: award

Thomas MacCreath best poster

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.

Sun 19 Jun 2022, 18:22 | Tags: award

Jessica Chadwick YES winner

On 21st January 2022, second year Birmingham student Jessica Chadwick (as part of a team made up of students and researchers from the universities of Birmingham, Nottingham and Keele), won the Environment YES21 prize.

The YES21 competition is a scheme for early career researchers to increase their awareness of research commercialisation.

The team's business concept, called RoboCrop, is a remote drone sensing operation that would allow early detection of pest and pathogen outbreaks using three different sensors (e-nose, IR and chlorophyll fluorescence). This would reduce pesticide inputs into fields, limiting environmental impacts and reducing costs for farmers. The team won a share of a £15k prize fund.

On their win, the team said:

"We are so proud of winning Environment YES21. Our multi-university team had to work virtually and didn’t know each other beforehand, despite this, we created a successful team. Syngenta’s workshop was uniquely rewarding with fantastic mentorship throughout. We have broadened our skill set in ways we hadn’t even considered before the competition. An amazing opportunity and having finally met in-person after the final, winning was the cherry on top."

Congratulations to Jess and the team.

Tue 25 Jan 2022, 10:59 | Tags: Entrepreneurship, award

Jessica Chadwick YES finalist

Second year Birmingham CASE student Jessica Chadwick is part of a team who has made the final of this year's YES competition.

The YES21 competition is a scheme for early career researchers to increase their awareness of research commercialisation. There are different streams of the competition and Jessica's group, consisting of four students/researchers from Universities of Birmingham, Nottingham, and Keele, are participating in the Plant, Microbial and Environment stream which also featured a three-day workshop form Syngenta.
The team's business concept, called RoboCrop, is a remote drone sensing operation that would allow early detection of pest and pathogen outbreaks using three different sensors (e-nose, IR and chlorophyll fluorescence). This would reduce pesticide inputs into fields, limiting environmental impacts and reducing costs for farmers.
The team will present at the final, which will take place on 21st January 2022, with a chance to win a share of the £15k prize fund.
Mon 17 Jan 2022, 11:01 | Tags: Entrepreneurship, award

MIBTP students win at student symposium

MIBTP students across the cohorts at Warwick, won prizes at this year's School of Life Sciences student symposium. The MIBTP winners were:

Best Seminar Presentation in memory of Xue Jiang

  • Holly Shropshire

Following top 5 Posters (in no order)

  • Matt Harwood
  • Anjana Radhakrishnan
  • Beth Richmond
  • Jenny Littler
  • Helen Wilkinson

Top 5 Seminar Presentations (in no order)

  • Niamh Harrington
  • Jeff Cheng
  • Rohini Ajaykumar
Thu 11 Nov 2021, 14:15 | Tags: award

Marisa Di Monaco award

Recent MIBTP Warwick graduate Dr Marisa Di Monaco has won the SEM Faculty Thesis Prize for her thesis 'Molecular mechanisms and transcriptional regulation of autophagy in Drosophila'. Marisa was supervised by Professor Ioannis Nezis and Dr Alex Jones.

Thu 12 Aug 2021, 15:28 | Tags: award

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