Warwick student Liam Cremona has been elected to the Microbiology Society’s Members Panel. This panel serves as the Society’s EDI committee and gives members from underrepresented or historically marginalised groups a more direct way to engage with the Society's governance and activities.

Birmingham student Jas Sound has been awarded an Oral Presentation Prize at the annual British Mass Spectrometry Society Biomacromolecular Structure Special Interest Group meeting

Warwick student Chidiebere Uchechukwu has published an article in the Journal of General Virology, titled: "Desmoglein-2 and COVID-19 complications: insights into its role as a biomarker, pathogenesis and clinical implications". It can be viewed online here.

New Birmingham student Arpan Nayak has publishing an article in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews with their PhD Supervisor, titled: "Is predictive coding falsifiable?". It can be viewed online here.

Birmingham student Asier Rodriguez-Muguruza for publishing an article in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, titled: "Antibiotic entrapment in antibacterial micelles as a novel strategy for the delivery of challenging antibiotics from silica nanoparticles". It can be viewed online here.

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.

Aston Student, Calum Upton, has published an article in The Biochemist. The article is titled as The value of the ‘Science and Economic Development’ Parliamentary Links Day 2023. It can be viewed in full online hereLink opens in a new window.

Birmingham Student, Asier Rodriguez Muguruza, has published an article in the RSC journal, Nanoscale Advances. The article is titled as Chelating silica nanoparticles for efficient antibiotic delivery and particle imaging in Gram-negative bacteria. It can be viewed in full online hereLink opens in a new window.

Aston Student, Kyprianos Michaelides, has published a paper in the journal, Taylor & Francis online. The paper is titled as Single administration vaccines: delivery challenges, in vivo performances, and translational considerations. It can be viewed online hereLink opens in a new window.

Birmingham student, Danielle Kay, has published a paper in Chemical Science. The paper is entitled as Tracking the mechanism of covalent molecular glue stabilization using native mass spectrometry. It can be viewed online Link opens in a new windowhere.

Leicester Student, Frannie Stephens, has co-authored on an article published in journal, Nature. The article is titled as "Indel driven rapid evolution of core nuclear pore protein gene promoters". It can be viewed onlineLink opens in a new window now.

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

Joint 1st Prize Winners:

• Jade Scott, Emma Coker, Jazzy Hill, Litsa Ampntelnour, and Betty Fekade.
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• Lamya Majeed, Tabitha Parker, Davina Banga, Jasmine Yeh, and Alex featherstone.
  The submission can be found here.Link opens in a new window

Joint 2nd Prize Winners:

• Poppy Aves.
  The submission can be found hereLink opens in a new window.
• Ana Mikic.
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Congratulations!

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!