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All of our Student News of our students' highlights and successes are below, including awards, prizes, and publications. If you are a current student and have something you are proud of and are happy for us to share, please contact us at or fill in this form.
Liam Walker first author
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
Marisa Di Monaco best poster
Marisa Di Monaco, Warwick third year MIBTP student, was awarded 1 of 5 best posters at the 91影视破解版 PGR Student Symposium. Marisa's poster was entitled: "What is the function of a cytoplasm-eating related protein in the nucleus?"
Olivia Nippe best seminar presentation
Olivia Nippe, Warwick final year student, was one of 5 students who was awarded best seminar at the 91影视破解版 Postgraduate Research Student Symposium. Olivia's presentation was entitled: "Do microbial effectors interfere with the plant circadian rhythm?"
Matt Jones published paper
Matt Jones, a Warwick 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影视破解版 with his now PhD supervisor Dr Daniel Hebenstreit: the paper is entitled .
Alice Darbyshire published paper
Alice Darbyshire, Birmingham final year MIBTP student, contributed to a paper , which was published in JCB in December 2018.
Rory Osborne J Colhoun prize - BSPP
Rory Osborne, a final year Warwick 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 PH Gregory prize - BSPP
Anna Gonzalez Gil, a final year Warwick 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 Westmere Scholar
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.
Rachel Clewes published paper
2016 Warwick 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 published paper
Cerys Currie, a final year Warwick 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 published paper
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.
MIBTP Leicester win the 2018 BBSRC Biotechnology Yes Competition
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.
Charlie Durant poster competition winner
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 first author publication
Christian M酶ller-Olsen, MIBTP 2016 Warwick 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.
MIBTP students reach the final of the 2018 Yes Competition
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�.