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Read more at: Congratulations! - ERC Starting Grant to Prof. Diana Fusco

Congratulations! - ERC Starting Grant to Prof. Diana Fusco

5 January 2023

The European Research Council starting grant will support Dr. Diana Fusco’s research group to develop mathematical methods and experimental validations to predict phage-bacteria co-evolution, a key step to be able to engineer and control microbial ecologies. The grant worth about €1.5 million will allow Diana Fusco, who is...


Read more at: The study by Neil Ibata “Why exercise builds muscles” was in the news

The study by Neil Ibata “Why exercise builds muscles” was in the news

30 September 2021

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used methods of theoretical biophysics to construct the model, which can tell how much a specific amount of exertion will cause a muscle to grow and how long it will take. The results, reported in the Biophysical Journal, suggest that there is an optimal weight at which to...


Read more at: Lina Hacker’s paper on photoacoustic sensing of haemoglobin published.

Lina Hacker’s paper on photoacoustic sensing of haemoglobin published.

25 November 2020

Lina has been investigating how photoacoustic imaging can be used to resolve species-specific differences in haemoglobin concentration and oxygen dissociation curves. Lina’s results show a clear relationship between photoacoustically determined haemoglobin biomarkers and their biochemically measured counterparts. Her data...


Read more at: A new Centre to promote multidisciplinary in Physical Biology

A new Centre to promote multidisciplinary in Physical Biology

21 February 2020

The Launch Event of the Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology was held on the 20th of January at St John’s Old Divinity School. This newly create Centre aims to support and facilitate multidisciplinary collaborations across the University of Cambridge. It will help coordinate and disseminate events and activities, support...


Read more at: Dr Sarah Bohndiek awarded the CRUK Future Leaders Prize

Dr Sarah Bohndiek awarded the CRUK Future Leaders Prize

7 November 2018

Congratulations to Sarah for this Early Career Prize - for developing new imaging tools to study the development and evolution of cancer, based on low cost optics and photonics technologies.


Read more at: Seminar series in Cavendish

Seminar series in Cavendish

16 October 2018

Note the two new seminar series in Cavendish, replacing the previous BSS series.


Read more at: Welcome new faculty colleague - Dr Diana Fusco

Welcome new faculty colleague - Dr Diana Fusco

26 September 2018

Dr Diana Fusco has joined the Cavendish this Summer with a Lectureship, to set up a mixed experimental/computational research programme in biological physics. Her team will initially investigate microbial populations, growth and evolution, interactions between bacteria and phages.


Read more at: Dr. Rosana Collepardo wins €1.5 million ERC starting grant

Dr. Rosana Collepardo wins €1.5 million ERC starting grant

27 July 2018

Dr. Rosana Collepardo has been awarded a €1.5 million ERC starting grant to develop a novel multi-scale computational method to investigate the organization of the genome with sub-nucleosome resolution. While sequencing our genome today is easy, finding out how it functions remains an urgent unsolved problem crucial to...


Read more at: Dr. Sarah Bohndiek's research featured on BBC news

Dr. Sarah Bohndiek's research featured on BBC news

8 March 2018

Dr. Sarah Bohndiek was featured together with collaborators Prof. Rebecca Fitzgerald and Dr Massimiliano di Pietro on BBC World News to mark the start of a new clinical trial in patients with Barrett's oesophagus. The work was also featured on the Today Programme on BBC radio 4. Dr Bohndiek's group will be testing the...


Read more at: Prof. Pietro Cicuta to deliver the G.I.Taylor Lecture of 2018

Prof. Pietro Cicuta to deliver the G.I.Taylor Lecture of 2018

23 January 2018

Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive