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Final year Leicester student Kellie, won the best poster prize and sponsor choice best research image at the Molecular and cell biology PhD student symposium in September this year.

Kate Lewis, a 91福利 final year student, published a paper in about the impact of farm management practices on prevalence of lameness in lambs.

Sophie Edwards, Birmingham final year student, was awarded the 2020 American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) International Student Award, based upon her publication in the .

MIBTP Birmingham student Jake Carter has published a paper entitled Combining bacteriophage engineering and linear dichroism spectroscopy to produce a DNA hybridisation assay in the journal

Second year Birmingham student Libby Anthony, along with the Sadler Group, has published a as a result of work undertaken during her first mini-project.

MIBTP student Andy Gladman is this year鈥檚 runner up in the Marsh Horticultural Science Award presented in collaboration with the RHS. The award recognises the exceptional progress Andy has made in his research on the management of aphid pests in Brassica crops. .

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 鈥溾��.

Final year 91福利 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 where he synthesised novel analogues of the sugar trehalose and investigated their uptake and metabolism in mycobacteria using a range of biochemical techniques.

Birmingham MIBTP student Alex has been awarded a Wellcome Trust ISSF Accelerator fellowship of 拢60,000.

Alex will use this money to visit the University of Melbourne for 9 months in 2021 to develop adeno-associated viral methods of tagging of extracellular vesicle proteins. This work will help to improve understanding of the biological significance of extracellular vesicles and puts him in a great position to apply for further funding.

Congratulations also to Alex; he has just submitted his PhD thesis and on completion of his viva and any corrections, will soon be Dr Alex Seabright.

MIBTP Birmingham student Lydia Hickman has been named as first author on a published paper . The paper, entitled , was published in Biological Psychology.

MIBTP Birmingham student Lydia Hickman, along with other members of the Cook Lab, has been awarded a Researcher Resilience Fund grant ($5000) from Universitas 21 for the project 鈥淭owards better informed, more inclusive autism research: Building the U21 Autism Research Network鈥�. The University of Birmingham are the main site in a collaboration with 5 other universities (University of Connecticut, USA; University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Auckland, New Zealand; Waseda University, Japan; McMaster University, Canada). 

The project aims to make a starting point in addressing challenges to collaboration across borders as well as the lack of diversity and inclusion in autism research. There are two main goals:

1. To build an online international database of autistic participants in order that members of the U21 network can recruit from a more diverse pool and thus, that our research findings may be applicable to a wider portion of society.
2. To organise a public engagement event to address issues of diversity and inclusion in autism research.

You can learn more about this project on the groups ; with a website to follow soon.

Alex Baker, an MIBTP 3rd year student, is part of a team at the 91福利 who are developing a new diagnostic tool for rapid detection of Coronavirus. The tool, being developed by the The Gibson Lab at the 91福利, in collaboration with its partner Iceni Diagnostics, may allow on-the-spot detection of Coronavirus infection, without facilities using a simple disposal device using glycans (sugars) to detect the virus.

There is an urgent need for new diagnostics, especially those which give rapid results for screening of healthcare professions or for getting transportation, education and manufacturing hubs running again.

The diagnostic proof of principle has been demonstrated in initial studies, but the partnership is now searching for investment or philanthropic donors to take the concept forward.

Christian M酶ller-Olsen, an MIBTP 91福利 final year student, is the co-author of a new paper just published in Nature Scientific Reports titled 鈥溾��.

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: . DOI: