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BSS Student wins best talk prize at the Cavendish Graduate Students Conference

9 December 2014

The BSS PhD student Kerstin Göpfrich from Dr. Ulrich Keyser's group won the price for the best talk prize at the Cavendish Graduate Students Conference. Her talk was about DNA origami and the creation of artificial ion channels. Congratulations!

BSS Student wins Cambridge University Enterprise competition

21 November 2014

Our PhD student, Weichao Zhai, has entered the Cambridge University Enterprise 100 words for £100 competition and was selected together with her team as the technology track winner. The team's entry is based her work in BSS on using microfluidic device for analysing malaria infected red blood cells.

Sarah receives WISE Research Award

14 November 2014

Dr Sarah Bohndiek from the Cancer Research UK Institute at the University of Cambridge, was announced last night as the winner of the WISE Research Award , sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Wellcome Trust, for using physics and engineering to develop tools for early cancer detection. http...

Sarah receives MRC Heirloom Brooch

13 October 2014

Sarah received one of the 2014 MRC Suffrage Science Heirloom awards, a bespoke brooch designed to be passed down through generations of female scientists. Sarah was nominated by Dr Elizabeth Murchison “Not only for her world-leading research, technical expertise and contagious enthusiasm about science, but also because of...

Welcome to the new PhD students!

10 October 2014

A warm welcome to the new PhD students joining our group: Victor Allard and Maria Panlilo (Citcuta group) Vijaya Duvvuri (Keyesr group) Michal Tomas

New website launched!

8 October 2014

The new website for the Biological and Soft Systems (BSS) group launched today. We hope you like it!

Best "Physics at Work" exhibit prize

25 September 2014

Once again, the BSS exhibit prepared for "Physics at Work" (the annual outreach event for schoolchildren) has been voted as the best in the department! Congratulations and well done to everyone who put their effort and time into this, and a special thanks to Lorenzo Di Michele for coordinating it all. Pietro.

Nature Communications paper on molecular sieve membranes

19 September 2014

Controlled thermal oxidative crosslinking of polymers of intrinsic microporosity towards tunable molecular sieve membranes Qilei Song, Shuai Cao, Robyn H Pritchard, Behnam Ghalei, Shaheen A Al-Muhtaseb, Eugene M Terentjev, Anthony K Cheetham, Easan Sivaniah Nature Communications 5 2014

Poster prize for Lucia Parolini