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.

Second year MIBTP Birmingham student Rachael Grime (left) has been awarded a grant from the Birmingham-Nottingham Centre for Membrane Proteins and Receptors (COMPARE). Rachael’s grant will enable her to visit Nottingham to carry out fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) on G protein-coupled receptors purified in SMALP nanodiscs. She will be aiming to determine binding kinetics of some fluorescent ligands to G protein-coupled receptors.

Rachael is pictured at the recent COMPARE Launch Event in Nottingham, with supervisor Mark Wheatley and former Wheatley lab member Denise Wootten.

Cerys Currie, a Warwick MIBTP student who is in the second year of her PhD, has been named BSCB Young Cell Biologist of the Year.

To win this title; Cerys, who is supervised by Professor Jonathan Millar and Dr Andrew McAinsh in Warwick Medical School, presented a poster entitled Eludicating the role of Bub1 in human checkpoint signalling at the recent British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) meeting in Manchester. As part of the award, Cerys will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) conference in San Diego, USA later this year.

Thomas Karikari, Warwick 2013 cohort, has recently began a visiting fellowship at the Walsh Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, USA.

A recipient of awards from the Royal Society, the Company of Biologists, the Physiology Society and MIBTP, Tommy joined the lab in August 2017 to investigate the effects of tau aggregation and spread on neuronal viability and neuritic morphology.

Yijun Zhu will receive the 2017 University of Warwick School of Life Science Faculty Thesis Prize for her thesis entitled: “Genetics and molecular mechanism of trimethylamine N-oxide demethylase of Methylocella silvestris BL2”.

Yijun was a student in the first MIBTP cohort who have just completed their PhD.

Congratulations to Yijun.

Mussa Quareshy will receive the 2017 University of Warwick School of Life Sciences Thesis Impact Prize for his thesis entitled: “Towards understanding chemical perception and selectivity for TIR1 and AFB5 auxin F-Box receptor family members in Arabidopsis.”

Mussa was a student in the first MIBTP cohort, who have just completed their PhD.

Congratulations to Mussa.

In 2016, Thomas Karikari, Warwick 2013 student, won the best poster award at the Alzheimer’s Research UK Midlands Conference.

Thomas Karikari of the 2013 cohort, based at Warwick, has been awarded numerous grants over the past year.

Matthew Jackson, 2014 Birmingham student wwas awarded Best Poster Prize at the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci) in Seoul, South Korea, which was awarded by Nature Communications.

Jonathan Smith, Leicester 2013 student, has won two writing prizes, which he attributes to the experience he gained during his PIPS placement in the editing team at Research Media Ltd during his training year.

Anna Gonzalez Gil, Warwick 2015 student, was awarded 1st Prize for the Poster presentation at the SCI Young Researches in Crop Sciences (14th of July of 2016).

Esther Ogunniyi (Warwick 2013 student) has had a successful year (2016 / 17) in terms of awards and papers.

MIBTP students won numerous awards at the recent Warwick School of Life Sciences Student Symposium.

Jack Connolly, MIBTP 2013 student based at Birmingam was part of a team that won the Post-graduate Enterprise Summer School, a course he took part in as part of the PGCARMS at Birmingham.

Charlotte Rich, Maura DiMartino, Elspeth Ransom win at the Biotechnology Yes Competition.