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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 a well-recognised curiosit…

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 do resistance training fo…

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 also provide insight into …

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 existing collaborations an…

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.

Note the two new seminar series in Cavendish, replacing the previous BSS series. BSS is involved in organising two seminar series in the Cavendish Lab, within the two research themes of "Biological and Biomedical Physics", and "Assembly and Function of Complex Systems".   They are listed on talks.ac.ac.uk and you can include them in your online cal…

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.

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 rationalise normal and aberran…

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 potential of a new multispectr…

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

The Institute of Physics (IOP) Biological Physics group is a growing and active community - check out the website and regular newsletter for their activities.  

Dr Lorenzo Di Michele is looking to recruit up to 2 keen students to undertake a PhD in the areas of Synthetic Biology / DNA Nanotechnology. If you are a UK student with top marks and are interested in this exciting opportunity please do not hesitate to contact contact Dr Di Michele quoting "2018 PhD student in DNA Nanotechnology" in the subject o…

We recently held a best of BSS image competition for our postdocs and students. Here are the results:1st prizeBen Woodhams2nd prize Jonghee Yoon3rd prize (joint) Emma Talbot & Hannah Laeverenz SchlogelhoferWell done all!The prize-winning images are displayed in the carousel above and also feature in the BSS website carousel.

Dr Sarah Bohdiek has secured a £1.1 million grant to work on developing multidimensional endoscopy for early cancer detection.The project will look to improve the use of endoscopes, long, flexible tubes with a light and video camera to detect oesophageal or lung cancers, by designing specialist video cameras. The cameras will be designed to detect …