UCL CoMPLEX

10 Jun 2013 - Student Mirna Kovacevic's recent paper

CoMPLEX PhD student Mirna Kovacevic has recently collaborated in a paper entitled "Molecular diversity and population structure at the Cytochrome P450 3A5 gene in Africa", published in BMC Genetics.

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.