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Dr Lorenzo Di Michele has won the IoP Liquids and Complex Fluids Group early career award. Well done Lorenzo!

Congratulations to everyone who organised and took part in the BSS exhibit for the Cavendish "Physics at Work" outreach event this week, which was once again voted the best by the schoolchildren. 

Travis Sawyer was awarded the $10,000 John Kiel Scholarship. After recently submitting his MPhil thesis in the group of Sarah Bohndiek, Travis will begin a PhD in optical sciences at the University of Arizona (USA) in the Autumn, collaborating with the Bohndiek lab conducting research into developing a multimodal imaging system for tissue analysis.…

A research assistant position is availalble to investigate the used of low-energy ultrasound to make the downstream processing of algae more efficient. The project is funded by Innovate UK and led by LabXero, a biotech company specialising on ultrasonic control and distruption of cells. The research assistant will work between Cambridge University …

The Bohndiek's group is looking for a new postdoc to join their team. The advertisement can be found here. If you are interested please contact Sarah Bohndiek for more information about the role.http://www.bohndieklab.org/

Otti Croze and his collaborator Kyriacos Leptos were interviewed in a Naked Scientists popular science feature on optogenetics, the control of neurons using light. This exciting new field was born out of the isolation of channel rhodopsin, the light sensitive protein gating ion channels in the eyespot of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, one of the model …

The group of Sarah Bohndiek is looking for a temporary lab manager to join their team. More information at:http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/13214/http://www.bohndieklab.org/

We would like to give a warm welcome to the new cohort of BSS PhD students:Ms Theresa Jakuszeit will be joining the Croze group, Mr Niklas Ermann and Mr Michael Schaich the Keyser group. We also welcome the MPhil students Mr Travis Sawyer (Bohdiek group) and Mr Kareem Al Nahas (Keyser group).

We're advertising a junior Faculty position (Lectureship) in the Physics department, looking ideally for someone with quantitative biological physics questions; needs to have some experimental activity, but theory on top of experiments a bonus.The job advert and further details are linked below.http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/599289-u…

A Research Associate position, funded by a GlaxoSmithKline Varsity award, is available from 2nd January 2017 (or as soon as possible after) to determine how bacteria adhere to respiratory epithelium using novel, multidisciplinary approaches in collaboration between Clare Bryant, John Wright and Pietro Cicuta (Cambridge) and Edith Hessel (GSK).This …

We are currently advertising for an exciting new PhD project within the laboratory. Please see the advertisement or email Sarah Bohndiek for more information.

Physics at Work is the largest outreach effort in the Cavendish - every year 2700 school children come to the department over three days:http://outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/programme/physicsatworkThanks to everyone who took part in the BSS Physics at Work this year, and particularly Luigi Feriani and Ryan Brady who have taken care of logistics and organi…

A review article by Judith Weber and Sarah Bohndiek on contrast agents for molecular photoacoustic imaging is now available online at Nature Methods:http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v13/n8/full/nmeth.3929.htmlThe review gives a comprehensive overview of the available signalling compounds and lays out key requirements for future development of ph…

Jonghee, Jo and Michal from Sarah Bohndiek's lab were interviewed by Donald Lush Careers Consultant for PhDs for the King's College London Graduate School. The resulting blog article can be found athttp://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/kclgradschool/2016/06/10/from-phd-to-pi-sarah-bohndiek-group-leader-department-of-physics-university-of-cambridge-and-cancer-rese…