Emma Reilly, a third year SLS Biochemistry student, has won the best project presentation award at the British Society of Plant Pathology (BSPP) Summer Student Symposium 2021. Emma's project was entitled 'Harnessing pathogenicity mechanisms to engineer plants tolerant to heat stress' and she was supported by Professor Vardis Ntoukakis.

Dr Alison Webb studies the roles of the microbial community in production of the climate-regulating gas dimethylsulfide. Last year, Alison took part in leg 5 of the MOSAiC expedition, the largest Arctic Research Expedition ever undertaken. A documentary on the expedition was recently shown on Channel 4.
Watch the documentary (16 October 2021)
Find out more about MOSAiC