Zoe Lonsdale, MIBTP 1st year PhD student has been selected to visit the Department of Biological Sciences at Nara Women's University (Japan) in Spring 2015 as part of a Leicester–Nara Exchange Agreement. She will work with Professor Shin-ichi Iwaguchi and his group, exploring epigenetically controlled phenotypic plasticity. Her visit will also include giving a research seminar, visiting the research laboratories, and meeting with staff and students to discuss the research at Nara and Leicester to hopefully lay the groundwork for collaborations.

MIBTP second year PhD student Andrew Gilbert has had a first author publication in the Cold Spring Harbour Perspectives in Medicine monthly online publication.

He has also gained a co-author publication in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

The Universities of Warwick, Birmingham and Leicester were recently awarded £13 million for MIBTP2. A second phase of our Doctoral Training Programme that will train 52 PhD students a year for 5 years (half funded by BBSRC and half by the Universities). We are now the third largest BBSRC DTP in the country and will continue our emphasis on quantitative biology and new ways of working. Recruitment will start soon for entry in Oct 2015.

MIBTP student Andrew Tock made a short video about his PIPS placement in Uganda - highlighted by BBSRC and the Global Food Security programme.

Second year MIBTP student Liam Redgrave has a first author publication in Trends in Microbiology on fluoroquinoline resistance.