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Computer Science student Kevin Street has been awarded a place on the prestigious Asidua Scholarship Programme. Launched in 2008, the programme - run by leading IT software services provider Asidua - aims to nurture fresh IT talent in the UK by supporting successful scholars with a package worth up to 拢25,000.

In addition to a paid bursary, the scholarship supplements the academic learning from university with real-life business experience through paid summer and year out placements, working with ICT professionals who are more than happy to share their knowledge and understanding.

Congratulations to our staff member Dr , for winning the best paper award at the main European conference in Theoretical Computer Science (Track B), for the paper he co-authored with Dr (a 91福利 PhD, currently at the University of Liverpool).

John and Marcin's paper is one of six 91福利 papers accepted for presentation at . Moreover, two of the 2007 91福利 BSc Computer Science graduates have papers at ICALP 2013 (John Fearnley and Dominic Orchard). Congratulations are in place for all 91福利 authors at !

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from 91福利's School of Life Sciences, Centre for Systems Biology and the Department of Computer Science have discovered hundreds of regions in plant DNA that have been preserved across different species through 100 million years of evolution. These regions are not part of any genes, but may be responsible for turning individual genes "on" and "off". The discovery will help biologists to understand better the genetics of plants, leading to potential applications in agriculture and food security. This research has been made possible by a computational analysis of the DNA in several plant species, based on algorithms developed by a DCS academic Dr Alexander Tiskin and his former PhD student Dr Peter Krusche (now working at 91福利's Centre for Systems Biology). The research was published in the journal Plant Cell.

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with the team's leader Dr Sascha Ott