Catherine Hooper, a Birmingham second year student, along with the other members of The Hannon group, has recently published work in JACS. The paper is entitled “Rotaxanating Metallo-supramolecular Nano-cylinder Helicates to Switch DNA Junction Binding”.

Final year Warwick student, Hadyn recently (February 2020) had success at the Mycobacterial Heterogeneity & Host Tissue Tropism symposium in New Delhi, India where he presented his research and was awarded the top emerging cellular microbiologist prize for his poster and research.

The data he presented was recently published, as 1^st author (and 1^st publication) in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry where he synthesised novel analogues of the sugar trehalose and investigated their uptake and metabolism in mycobacteria using a range of biochemical techniques.

MIBTP Birmingham student Lydia Hickman has been named as first author on a published paper . The paper, entitled The relationship between Heartbeat Counting and Heartbeat Discrimination: a meta-analysis, was published in Biological Psychology.

Christian Møller-Olsen, an MIBTP Warwick final year student, is the co-author of a new paper just published in Nature Scientific Reports titled “Bacteriophage K1F targets Escherichia coli K1 in cerebral endothelial cells and influences the barrier function”.

University of Birmingham, final year MIBTP student, Rachael Grime has co-authored a paper as part of a collaboration that came from COMPARE (Centre of Membrane Proteins and Receptors) which is a partnership between the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham. COMPARE funded Rachael's visits to Nottingham so that she could take the technology from her home lab (solubilising GPCRs without detergents, using SMALPs) and apply it to be trained in a specialised microscopic technique (FCS) which is done in Nottingham. The resulting paper is titled: Single molecule binding of a ligand to a G-protein-coupled receptor in real time using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, rendered possible by nano-encapsulation in styrene maleic acid lipid particles. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NR01060J

Final year MIBTP University of Warwick student, Marisa Di Monaco, is one of the researchers who authored a paper which was published in Cell Reports on 26th May. In the paper, titled Regulation of Expression of Autophagy Genes by Atg8a-Interacting Partners Sequoia, YL-1, and Sir2 in Drosophila, the researchers have discovered proteins which are required for the transcription of autophagy genes.

Alex Seabright, a final year MIBTP student based at the University of Birmingham, is 1st author on a recently published paper entitled: AMPK activation induces mitophagy and promotes mitochondrial fission while activating TBK1 in a PINK1‐Parkin independent manner. The paper was published in The FASEB Journal; https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201903051R

The press release associated with Alex's findings can be found on the University of Birmingham website.

Charlotte Cooper, Birmingham MIBTP final year student, was published as a joint-first author in Molecular Microbiology on a paper entitled ‘The mycolic acid reductase Rv2509 has distinct structural motifs and is essential for growth in slow-growing mycobacteria.’ The publication details are as follows:

Javid, A., Cooper, C., Singh, A., Schindler, S., Hanisch, M., Marshall, R.L., Kalscheuer, R., Bavro, V.N. and Bhatt, A. (2019) The mycolic acid reductase Rv2509 has distinct structural motifs and is essential for growth in slow-growing mycobacteria. Molecular Microbiology

Dr Harun Rashid, a graduate of the first cohort of MIBTP students, based at the University of Warwick, has recently published two papers as a result of his PhD research:

1.  Rashid, M.H.A., Cheng, W. and Thomas, B. 2019. Temporal and Spatial Expression of Arabidopsis Gene Homologs Control Daylength Adaptation and Bulb Formation in Onion (Allium cepa L.). Scientific Reports, 9: 14629. 

2.  Rashid, M.H.A. and Thomas, B. 2019. Diurnal Expression of Arabidopsis Gene Homologs during Daylength-Regulated Bulb Formation in Onion (Allium cepa L.). Scientia Horticulturae, 261: 108946. 

Final year Warwick student Robyn Wright has just published her 1st paper as a result of her PhD research. The paper is published in Microbiome and is entitled Understanding microbial community dynamics to improve optimum microbiome selection.

Rachel Clewes, Warwick 3rd year MIBTP student, has recently published a paper with her supervisor Professor Lorenzo Frigerio. The paper is entitled Aquaporins influence seed dormancy and germination in response to stress and was published on the online library, Wiley.

Leicester 3rd year MIBTP student Marta Poblocka contributed to a recent publication, Detecting and targeting senescent cells using molecularly imprinted nanoparticles. The paper was published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

First year Warwick MIBTP student, Beth Richmond, contributed to the paper Regulation of resource partitioning coordinates nitrogen and rhizobia responses and autoregulation of nodulation in the legume Medicago which was published on the website www.cell.com.

Liam Walker, a final year Warwick student on the MIBTP programme, has had a first author publication in the journal Plant Methods. The paper is entitled 3DCellAtlas Meristem: a tool for the global cellular annotation of shoot apical meristems.