UCL CoMPLEX

24 Apr 2013 - CoMPLEX receives a Green Impact Bronze Award

CoMPLEX's efforts in running an environmentally-friendly department have been rewarded once more with a Bronze qualification at the most recent Green Impact competition.

5 Feb 2013 - Chris Banerji is awarded UCL-MAPS Prize

PhD Student Chris Banerji has been awarded the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Postgraduate Prize for his outstanding achievements during the MRes year at CoMPLEX.

This adds to his success in procuring the INBIOMEDvision Training Challenge Prize for Best Approach to a Current Problem in Biomedical Informatics, while representing CoMPLEX in Barcelona earlier in 2012.

16 Jan 2013 - Tom Blacker and Andrew Newell have been appointed as CoMPLEX Fellows

Andrew Newell and final year PhD student Tom Blacker have both been appointed to CoMPLEX Doctoral Prize Fellowships, funded by the EPSRC and starting in April 2013.

Tom will become the Prof. Anne Warner Doctoral Fellow while Andrew will become the Prof Rob Seymour Doctoral Fellow. Both positions are named in honour of outstanding contributors to CoMPLEX who made major contributions during our 14 year history and who were instrumental in building ComPLEX to the successful centre it is today, now training over 60 students and hosting 8 fellows.

As for our new fellows, Andrew recently won an international Kaggle competition in computational approaches for handwriting recognition and is working on computational approaches to visual recognition tasks in general, while Tom plans to continue to work on the role of NADH using a fluorescence lifetime approach developing new collaborations in Chemistry for the synthesis of novel NADP(H)-like molecules.

14 Jan 2013 - Maria Botcharova's placement at The Guardian

CoMPLEX PhD student Maria Bothcarova has recently spent a week at The Guardian's News Department, as part of their Editorial Placement Scheme.

One of the products of Maria's work at this top newspaper included a science news item describing recent findings on the evolution of skin wrinkling in water by a group of researchers from Newcastle University.

8 Oct 2012 - Robin Freeman and the Bat Detective

CoMPLEX and 2020-Science research fellow Dr. Robin Freeman has recently received coverage on the BBC for his involvement in the Bat Detective project, together with Prof. Kate Jones.

20 Sep 2012 - Student Niclas Thomas's recent paper

CoMPLEX PhD student Niclas Thomas is the first author of the article "Directional Migration of Recirculating Lymphocytes through Lymph Nodes via Random Walks", recently published in the free-access online journal PlOS One.

3 Sep 2012 - Student Michael Epstein's recent publication

CoMPLEX first-year PhD student Michael Epstein has recently contributed to a paper on the journal Bioinformatics.
The article, entitled "A robust model for read count data in exome sequencing experiments and implications for copy number variant calling", is first-authored by CoMPLEX collaborator Dr. Vincent Plagnol, and partly stems from Michael's work during his MRes year (2010-2011).

6 Jul 2012 - New article by PhD Student Gwen Knight

CoMPLEX PhD student Gwen Knight has recently published an article entitled "Shift in dominant hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) clones over time" in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. The article is accessible online, and it has received media coverage in the Evening Standard.

31 May 2012 - New article by PhD Student Tracy Moroz

CoMPLEX PhD student Tracy Moroz has recently published a paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. The article, entitled "Computational modelling of the piglet brain to simulate near-infrared spectroscopy and magnetic resonance spectroscopy data collected during oxygen deprivation", is already accessible online.