Final year Warwick student Mingkee was awarded a travel grant to attend the 41st New Phytologist Symposium ‘Plant sciences for the future’ which was held at Présidence de l’Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, 11–13 April 2018. At the symposium, Mingkee presented a poster abstract entitled Are nodule specific genes NCRs under the regulatory control of ancient protein family?

Kate Woolley-Allen, Warwick 2015 student, has had a paper published in the Root Journal. The paper is entitled Histological Profiling Over Time to Optimize Root Cell Type-Specific Reporter Lines for Cell Sorting.

Lauren Lansdowne, Leicester 2016 iCASE student, was named joint first author on a paper published in The Faseb Journal. The paper was as a result of her mini-project at the University of Warwick during her training year and is entitled Analysis of chromatin accessibility in decidualizing human endometrial stromal cells.

Luca Illing, Warwick third year MIBTP student, won one of the top four poster prizes at the 2018 Warwick School of Life Sciences PGR Seminar. This awarded him a prize of £25.

Matthew, who is a Birmingham final year MIBTP student, was first author on two journals which have recently been published, as follows:

• Topological analysis of multicellular complexity in the plant hypocotyl, eLife
• Network-based approaches to quantify multicellular development, Journal of the Royal Society Interface

As part of her PIPs with Warwick Outreach, Rachel Clewes (Warwick 2016 student) wrote and published two articles in the Biological Sciences Review, a magazine for A level students.

The first article discussed Transcription factors; the second was entitled Fuel from Plants.

In April of this year, Emily Goodall (Birmingham final year student) gave a 12 minute talk at the Microbiology Annual Conference on her paper Exploitation of random transposon mutagenesis to reveal conditionally essential genes important for antibiotic resistance.

Emily was first author on a paper pubished on NCBI The Essential Genome of Escherichia coli K-12 

She was also middle author on another NCBI publication Complete Closed Genome Sequence of Nontoxigenic Invasive Corynebacterium diphtheriae bv. mitis Strain ISS 3319.

Panos Tsapras, Warwick 2016 MIBTP student, has been named joint first author on a paper recently published in the journal Cell Death and Differentiation volume 24, (pages 1369–1379 - 2017). The paper is entitled Caspase involvement in autophagy.

Eline Hendrix, who is registered at Birmingham and in the second year of the MIBTP programme, has recently been awarded a prize for the best first presentation given at the Birmingham Institute of Cancer Genomic Sciences annual PGR festival. She was one of 90 students presenting at the event so a fantastic achievement.

Sophie Martucci (2015 Warwick student) has been nominated for a Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) award for her teaching within the School of Life Sciences. The awards recognise postgraduate students who have enhanced the student experience by motivating, inspiring and engaging with students and who have created a supportive learning environment that recognises diverse student needs. The winners will be announced w/c 25th June. Best of luck Sophie.

Jon Price, Warwick 2014 has recently had a paper published as a result of the mini-project that he undertook during his training year. The project was under the supervision of Dr Eamonn Mallon at the University of Leicester and the paper was published in Molecular Ecology.

Jon was also awarded a prize of £50 at the 2018 Warwick Postrgraduate Research Student Symposium; he was voted as giving one of the top five seminars.

Dave Booth, who is in the second year of the MIBTP programme, will speak at a conference, Innovations in Urban Agriculture, in Brussels later this month. The conference, a colloboration between Harper Adams and the University of Birmingham, will be attended by a mixture of researchers, companies and EU delegates; the subject matter is recent innovations in vertical farming and the current trends in urban agriculture. Dave's talk will discuss resource availability and its use in urban environments; he will also be promoting PhD and research projects that are partnerships between universities, as his own project is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Harper Adams.

Jenna Lam, Warwick 2015 student, received the Silver award at the 2018 PrimerDesign competition. Every year Primerdesign sponsors a number of postgraduate students across the UK to help with their research by actively promoting good science and providing some free, and some discounted, high quality Real-Time PCR reagents. As part of the award, Jenna will receive 20% off all PrimerDesign products. Further information on the PrimerDesign Postgraduate Sponsorship scheme can be found on their website.

Poppy Sephton-Clark, Birmingham 2015 MIBTP student, has recently had two publications. The first paper Poppy contributed to is entitled Vomocytosis of live pathogens from macrophages is regulated by the atypical MAP kinase ERK5; it can be viewed on the Science Advances website.

The second publication, in Advances in Applied Microbiology, where Poppy is listed as joint first author, is entitled Spore Germination of Pathogenic Filamentous Fungi.

Charlotte Cooper, MIBTP Birmingham 2016 student, contributed to a paper which has been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The paper, entitled Structural and functional determination of homologs of the Mycobacterium tuberculosisN-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate deacetylase (NagA), was as a result of Charlotte's mini-project, undertaken at the University of Warwick during her training year. The paper can be viewed found on the JPC website.