UCL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENT

GEE News Publication

• GEE's Dr Nick Lane wins BioMed Central Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution Research Award
• Helena Cocheme - Nature Protocols paper
• A matter of priorities: Bacteria evolved way to safeguard crucial genetic material, Prof Nick Luscombe publishes in Nature
• Prof Steve Jones is elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society
• GEE's Prof Mark Thomas co-authors genetic study on the origin of modern cows
• New UGI Manager appointed in GEE
• GEE's Dr Nick Lane and colleagues in SMB and Chemistry awarded Leverhulme Trust grant for Origins of Life research
• GEE/IHA's Dr Matthew Piper awarded grant from the Royal Society
• GEE's Mark Thomas, David Gems and Matt Piper speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival
• GEE's Prof Andrew Pomiankowski welcomes the first of three new Professorial appointments
• GEE appoints new Chair of Ecology and Biodiversity
• GEE appoints new Chair of Evolutionary and Comparative Biology
• GEE/UGI appoints new Chair of Computational Biology
• GEE's Tosin Taiwo's paper on Methylome analysis published in Nature
• GEE's Dr Nick Lane talks about free radicals and life in PI Newspaper
• Do men have a genetic future?: GEE's Dr Max Reuter on BBC Radio 4's Material World
• Co-Chair of the Basic Life Sciences Domain - Prof Michael Duchen and Dr Paola Oliveri
• GEE's Carl Smith successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on 'Sexual selection in yeast'
• Royal Society URFs in GEE
• UCL announces BBSRC London Interdisciplinary Biosciences PhD Consortium
• Mitochondria and the great gender divide - GEE's Profs Andrew Pomiankowski, Rob Seymour and Dr Nick Lane and Zena Hadjivasiliou publish paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• GEE team led by Dr Nik Maniatis makes important progress on way to dissect the genetics of complex inheritance
• GEE launches MRes course in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation
• Paper by Roger Wotton and Terry Preston selected for book published by the University of California Press
• Indians share milk-digesting trait with Europeans: new Cambridge study published in collaboration with GEE's Profs Mark Thomas and Dallas Swallow
• Publication in Nature of controversial study led by GEE's Gems and Partridge labs
• GEE's Prof Max Telford recipient of prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
• Iberian Lynx not doomed by its genetics says GEE's Prof Mark Thomas co-author of study
• Congratulations go to former PhD student
• Prof Linda Partridge awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Bath
• Prof Linda Partridge awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by Oxford University at Encaenia
• GEE Professor Emeritus comments on the genetic predisposition for cleft lips
• Commercial filmed in GEE's laboratory in the Darwin Building
• GEE Summer Studentship funding success
• Save the gibbon campaign
• Reader or Chair in (1) Ecology and Biodiversity, (2) Evolutionary and Comparative Biology
• Congratulations go to Prof Jürg Bähler
• GRANT SUCCESSES FOR GEE
• Inaugural lecture date for three GEE professors
• GEE has moved!
• GEE's Prof Steve Jones elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society
• 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the death of Francis Galton
• GEE Research Away Day 2011
• GEE Post-graduate Symposium 2011
• Publicity for the Annals of Human Genetics
• New species from Lake Tanganyika
• Lecturecast available of BIOL1005
• Award of Bogue Fellowship
• More grant successes for GEE!
• GEE/IHA's Prof Linda Partridge receives an honorary degree from the University of Oxford 
• The Grant Museum celebrates its re-opening and fantastic new location
• Professors Steve Jones & Mark Thomas feature in BBC 'Horizon' programme:  'Are we still evolving?'
• GEE's Dr Nick Lane as Principal Organizer with others awarded Royal Society support to hold two-day meeting & a satellite meeting
• Nick Lane selected 2011 Brockington Visitor to Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
• GEE PhD student publishes an exciting first author paper in JAMA
• Congratulations to Prof Ziheng Yang
• 'Evolution: a can of worms'
• BBSRC award goes to GEE's Prof Jürg Bähler and Dr Matt Piper
• 'Genetic link to high cholesterol is being missed'
• Darwin 'would struggle to get funding today' debates GEE's Anjali Goswami
• GEE Lunch-time seminars (for UCL Staff and Students only)
• Darwin's Birthday Party 2011 at the Natural History Museum!
• Prof Steve Jones elected President of the Association of Science Education
• We are Green Champions!
• ‘Genes of an 18th century ‘giant’ could change the lives of 21st century patients’
• Professor Andrew Pomiankowski honoured as AAAS Fellow
• And warmest congratulations go to...
• Dr Anjali Goswami lead author in Royal Society Proceedings B
• Dr Lazaros Foukas, GEE/IHA, recipient of Wellcome Trust University Award
• Professor Jürg Bähler elected as a member of EMBO
• Dr Julia Day awarded a grant by the National Geographic Society / Waitt Grants program.
• Dr Lisa De Silva successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on the 'Biogeography and molecular evolution of Oleria (Ithomiinae) butterflies.
• Dr Nick Lane co-author of Nature article on 'The energetics of genome complexity'
• Professor Andrew Pomiankowski co-recipient of EPSRC Cross-Disciplinary Landscape Award (UCL and Oxford)
• Professor Ziheng Yang FRS appointed R A Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics
• Two senior promotions announced in GEE
• City living helped humans evolve immunity to TB
• Mother’s care is key to a big brain
• New publication by Anjali Goswami et al
• Wellcome profiling Linda Partridge's and team's research into Alzheimer's Disease
• Provost's Teaching Awards 2010
• Latest grant success for GEE
• Andrew Pomiankowski has been recently elected as a Fellow of Linnean Society of London
• Linda Partridge receives 2010 Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging
• GEE Headship celebration
• 2 GEE authors on long list for Royal Society Prize for Science Books
• Neuron video abstract
• Grant successes for Dr Paola Oliveri
• Dr Julia Day gives an insight into her work
• New CEE website launched
• LeCHE MEETING
• Prof Steve Humphries elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
• A Crucial Difference: Celebrating Diversity in Nature
• Linda Partridge elected as a Foreign Honorary Member, AAAS
• Steve Jones addresses Royal Institution
• Congratulations to Daniel Pearce