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It was announced today that Pietro Cicuta and Ulrich Keyser have been promoted to Professor. Many congratulations to them both, very well deserved!

The identification and quantification of proteins in complex mixtures using nanopore sensing with high specificity was published by Nicholas Bell and Ulrich Keyser in a recent article in Nature Nanotechnology. Their combination of DNA nanotechnology with nanopore based detection of single molecules allowed for the multiplexed identification of anti…

Alex Crick has been awarded the Clare Hall prize (Salje Medal) for his PhD thesis. He's also informed us that he has recently passed his first set of patent law exams.

Nanopore sensing is a burgeoning field with many potential applications such as DNA sequencing and protein analysis.  The principle is extremely elegant: anything that passes through a tiny hole – the nanopore – filled with salty water will block it briefly. This blockage can be detected by measuring changes in ionic current driven through the nano…

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Last week Alexander Ohmann (Keyser group) won the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (the German Physical Society) first poster prize (350 Euro) awarded by the Biological Physics Division and sponsored by the Europhysics Letters jornal editor. http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/bp/posterpreis.htmlIn his poster "Influence of cholesterol tag…

A Cambridge Fluids Network (CFN) has been establshed to connect all flud dynamics research with the University of Cambridge. An inaugural CFN day will be held in DAMTP, at which Otti Croze has been invited to speak and PhD students Di Jin (Croze group) and Yizhou Tan (Keyser group) will be presenting posters. The network is coordinated by Dr Nick D…

Congratulations to Jehangir Cama who has been awarded a Research Fellowship in the Sciences at Clare Hall, Cambridge, from 1st October 2016 for 3 years. He is currently working jointly with Dr. Ulrich Keyser and Dr. Kevin Chalut on developing microfluidic technologies to study stem cell differentiation, while also continuing his previous work on st…

Otti Croze has been awarded a £15k Royal Society Research Grant. The grant will allow to purchase industrial photobioreactors from Variconaqua solutions to be sited in the Algae lab in the Physics of Medicine building and at the Algal Innovation Centre in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. The project is entitled "Using microswimmer biophysic…

The newly established EPSRC Maths in Healthcare Centre at the University of Cambridge, including Sarah Bohndiek from BSS, is searching for talented postdoctoral fellows with a passion for interdisciplinary research! Find out more about potential projects at:http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/cbs31/CMiH/Welcome.htmlhttp://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/9299/

The newspaper Cambridge News has interviewed Sarah and her collaborator in the project Rebecca Fitzgerald about the recent launch of the Cambridge Cancer Centre Early Detection Programme. Read the interview here

Karolis Misiunas has been named among the 30 most influential Europeans under 30 by Forbes Magazine in a category of "Science and Health Care". He is currently undertaking a PhD in Dr Ulrich Keyser's laboratory, where he studies Brownian motion in small channels. He specifically examines what happened to these interactions as particles pass through…

Congratulations to Dr. Silvia Hernandez-Ainsa who has been recently awarded with a Junior Research Fellowship from Wolfson College.

Athene Donald received an Honorary DSC from the University of Manchester last week (www.manchester.ac.uk).She has been rather visible in the media in recent weeks, including appearances on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions discussing her (classical) musical loves and the impact it has had on her life( www.bbc.co.uk); discussing the impact of toys on g…

Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved in the BSS Physics at Work team(s), particularly those responsible for the "soft matter" hands-on activity in the Edwards room, coordinated by Dr Lorenzo di Michele, which has been voted the best by the students (confirming a very strong run in previous years! I think we are now in the historical lead…