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Liam Walker, a final year 91福利 student on the MIBTP programme, has had a first author publication in the journal Plant Methods. The paper is entitled

Marisa Di Monaco, 91福利 third year MIBTP student, was awarded 1 of 5 best posters at the 91福利 PGR Student Symposium. Marisa's poster was entitled: "What is the function of a cytoplasm-eating related protein in the nucleus?"

Olivia Nippe, 91福利 final year student, was one of 5 students who was awarded best seminar at the 91福利 Postgraduate Research Student Symposium. Olivia's presentation was entitled: "Do microbial effectors interfere with the plant circadian rhythm?"

Matt Jones, a 91福利 second year MIBTP student, has had a paper published as a result of research from his training year mini-project. The project was undertaken at the 91福利 with his now PhD supervisor Dr Daniel Hebenstreit: the paper is entitled .

Alice Darbyshire, Birmingham final year MIBTP student, contributed to a paper , which was published in JCB in December 2018.

Rory Osborne, a final year 91福利 student, was awarded the British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) at their 2018 presidential conference.

The best poster prize of 拢100 was awarded to Rory was for his poster "Exploiting effectors of a fungal mutualist to enhance crop production".

Picture: Rob Jackson, Rory and Murray Grant.

Anna Gonzalez Gil, a final year 91福利 student, was awarded the British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) at their 2018 presidential conference.

The prize of 拢250 was awarded to Anna for the best presentation made by a young scientist who has not previously presented at a paper at a BSPP meeting. Anna's talk was entitled "Chromatin remodelling and its conserved role in plant biotic and abiotic stress responses".

Picture: Dawn Arnold, Anna and Murray Grant.

Ollie Odell, Birmingham 2017 iCASE student, received the for the 2018-19 academic year.

The Westmere Scholars role is to engage with postgraduate researcher communities, initiating and delivering researcher development activities and promoting the postgraduate researcher hub, Westmere.

2016 91福利 student Rachel Clewes had a paper published as a result of her MIBTP away mini-project at the University of Birmingham. The three-month project took place in 2017 under the supervision of Dr Juliet Coates and the paper, entitled was published the following year.

Cerys Currie, a final year 91福利 MIBTP student, has published a paper as a result of research from her PhD. The paper, entitled, Bub1 is not essential for the checkpoint response to unattached kinetochores in diploid human cells was published in in September 2018 and has already received a number of citations.

Charlotte Cooper, a Birmingham third year student, contributed to a paper as part of her lab group and in collaboration with the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle that has just been published in Molecular Systems Biology. The paper is entitled .

Charlotte went on to present this work as a poster at the Keystone symposia conference entitled 鈥楾uberculosis: mechanisms, pathogenesis and treatment鈥� in Banff, Canada in January 2019. She attended this event using the MIBTP travel grant.

Two University of Leicester MIBTP students, Kalina Boytcheva and Charlotte Davison were part of a team, Phytocolours, who won the 2018 BBSRC Biotechnology YES competition.

The team's winning idea was reducing pollution from the fashion industry by providing structurally coloured cellulose fibres from microalgae. Their product, Rayonbow鈩� is used in the manufacture of eco-sustainable textiles to produce fabric that never fades but doesn鈥檛 cost the earth.

The final was hosted by the Royal Society in London and the team had ten minutes to present their idea, followed by another 10 minutes to answer questions from the 12 industry judges.

2017 Leicester student Charlie Durant  won another first prize in a poster competition, this time at the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) annual winter meeting held on 20th of December 2018 at the Natural History Museum, London. Congraulations Charlie.

Christian M酶ller-Olsen, MIBTP 2016 91福利 student, has pubished a paper in Scientific Reports. The paper, entitled , is Christian's first publication as a result of his main PhD project (under the supervision of Dr Antonia Sagona) and his first, first author paper.

Two University of Leicester MIBTP students, Kalina Boytcheva and Charlotte Davison, have reached the finals of the competition.

Kalina, Charlotte and their team (which is comprised of PhD students and postdocs from the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology) will join seven other teams from around the country to compete in the finals of the competition at the Royal Society in December.

In order to win the regional heat of the competition, they had to beat off five other teams by coming up with a plausible (although entirely invented) idea that could be transferred from a research lab to a valuable business. Their idea was to make structurally coloured cellulose for fabric from microalgae. They attended a two day workshop in Manchester with speakers and mentors with expertise in areas such as IP, tech transfer and finance to help them develop their ideas and business plan. On the third day they had to pitch their idea in a 15min presentation to a panel of 4 judges and ask for an 鈥渋nvestment鈥� followed by 10mins of questions; similar to 鈥淒ragons鈥� Den鈥�.