News http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-viewer/rss Aaron Crompton 2011-02-02T16:30:46Z GEE's Dr Nick Lane wins BioMed Central Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution Research Award http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201203May 18 April 2012 - For his article,  Energetics and genetics across the prokaryote-eukaryote divide, we are delighted to announce that Dr Nick Lane has won the Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution Research Award for their 6th Annual Research Awards. Nick will now be immediately shortlisted for the prestigious BioMed Central Research Award. The winner of this award will be announced at the BioMed Central Research Awards ceremony. Jane Dempster 2012-05-03T19:28:56Z Congratulations to Daniel Pearce http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201230Apr-1 Jane Dempster 2012-04-30T16:56:01Z Helena Cocheme - Nature Protocols paper http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201230Apr Congratulations to Dr Helena Cocheme (Partridge Lab) on the publication of her paper entitled 'Using the mitochondria-targeted ratiometric mass spectrometry probe MitoB to measure H(2)O(2) in living Drosophila' in Nature Protocols.  Read more ... Jane Dempster 2012-04-30T16:45:26Z A matter of priorities: Bacteria evolved way to safeguard crucial genetic material, Prof Nick Luscombe publishes in Nature http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201223April-1 Different genes mutate at different rates, in the bacterium E. coli . Credit: EMBL / I. Martincorena. Jane Dempster 2012-04-23T14:05:04Z Prof Steve Jones is elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201223Apr UCL and GEE are very proud and delighted to announce that Prof Steve Jones, former Head of Department, has been welcomed as a Fellow of The Royal Society, along with Prof Gabriel Waksman (Head of Department, Structural and Molecular Biology). Jane Dempster 2012-04-23T08:50:11Z New UGI Manager appointed in GEE http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201217Apr GEE welcomes Dr Susmita Datta, the new UGl Genetics Institute Manager, who succeeds Clare Glen who has taken up a new appointment in UCL, Maple House. Jane Dempster 2012-04-17T12:52:49Z GEE's Prof Mark Thomas co-authors genetic study on the origin of modern cows http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/20121304 28 March 2012: Origin of Modern Cows Traced to Single Herd Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) co-authors genetic study showing all modern domesticated cows are descended from a single herd of wild ox, which lived 10,500 years ago. Jane Dempster 2012-04-16T11:19:31Z GEE's Dr Nick Lane and colleagues in SMB and Chemistry awarded Leverhulme Trust grant for Origins of Life research http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201221Mar 21 March 2012 Warmest congratulations go to Dr Nick Lane, Professor John Ward (Dept of Structural and Molecular Biology) and Prof Julian Evans (Dept of Chemistry) who are co-recipients on a Leverhulme Trust research grant of up to £248,883 over three years for 'A far-from-equilibrium reactor to investigate the origin of life'. Jane Dempster 2012-03-21T17:32:35Z GEE's Mark Thomas, David Gems and Matt Piper speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201220Mar - "A baby born tonight will live on average five hours longer than a baby born last night. Why and how is life expectancy increasing so quickly? How much of this extended life will be in good health? What do we really understand about the mechanisms of ageing?" David Gems and Matt Piper will be speaking on this topic at the Cheltenham Science Festival on 15th June 2012. Jane Dempster 2012-03-20T16:33:52Z GEE/IHA's Dr Matthew Piper awarded grant from the Royal Society http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201215mar 7th March - Warmest congratulations go to Dr Matt Piper who has been awarded a grant of £138,100 for three years from the Royal Society to work on: "Characterising the mechanisms underlying lifespan / fecundity trade-offs" Jane Dempster 2012-03-15T10:45:03Z GEE's Prof Andrew Pomiankowski welcomes the first of three new Professorial appointments http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201213Mar Head of Department, Professor Andrew Pomiankowski, welcomed the first of three new Professorial Chairs to the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment. Professor Nicholas Luscombe (Chair of Computational Biology) joins us from the EBI Cambridge  as part of the UCL Genetics Institute. Nick is a joint appointment with CRUK's London Research Institute which will mature into the Crick in a few years. He will be joined in April by Professor Judith Mank (Chair of Evolutionary and Comparative Biology) from the University of Oxford and Professor Kate Jones (Chair of Ecology and Biodiversity) from the Institute of Zoology. Jane Dempster 2012-03-13T09:36:17Z GEE appoints new Chair of Ecology and Biodiversity http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201213Mar_4 GEE is delighted to announce the appointment of Kate Jones, Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity. Jane Dempster 2012-03-12T14:34:26Z GEE appoints new Chair of Evolutionary and Comparative Biology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201212Mar-3 GEE is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Judith Mank, new Professor of Evolutionary and Comparative Biology, who with her group, will join us in April 2012.  Jane Dempster 2012-03-12T13:53:22Z GEE/UGI appoints new Chair of Computational Biology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201212Mar-2 GEE/UGI are delighted to announce the appointment of Nicholas (Nick) Luscombe , Professor of Computational Biology, who with his group, joined us on 1 March 2012.  Jane Dempster 2012-03-12T11:27:22Z GEE's Tosin Taiwo's paper on Methylome analysis published in Nature http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201212Mar Congratulations to Tosin Taiwo, PhD student in Daniel Pearce's lab, whose first paper on Methylome analysis using MeDIP-seq with low DNA concentrations has been published in Nature . Jane Dempster 2012-03-12T09:26:30Z GEE's Dr Nick Lane talks about free radicals and life in PI Newspaper http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201205Mar-2 Read UCL's PI Newspaper article, March 2012, here Jane Dempster 2012-03-05T15:28:31Z Do men have a genetic future?: GEE's Dr Max Reuter on BBC Radio 4's Material World http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201205Mar Jane Dempster 2012-03-05T09:24:01Z Co-Chair of the Basic Life Sciences Domain - Prof Michael Duchen and Dr Paola Oliveri http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201230Jan Our warmest congratulations go to GEE's Dr Paola Oliveri on taking on this important role (from Profesor Andrew Pomiankowski, who was interim Chair). Jane Dempster 2012-01-31T17:33:04Z GEE's Carl Smith successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on 'Sexual selection in yeast' http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/20123001 Warmest congratulations go to Carl Smith, and thanks also to his Principal Supervisor, Professor Andrew Pomiankowski and co-supervisors/tutors Dr Duncan Greig & Dr Max Reuter. Jane Dempster 2012-01-30T14:37:02Z Royal Society URFs in GEE http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201223Jan 8 November 2011 Jane Dempster 2012-01-23T16:07:00Z UCL announces BBSRC London Interdisciplinary Biosciences PhD Consortium http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/20121412 University College London and King’s College London, together with the Royal Veterinary College, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Birkbeck College and the School of Pharmacy, have developed a major new, interdisciplinary PhD programme in bioscience and bioengineering. Research projects will fall within the BBSRC science remit. For full details of programme structure, funding/eligibility & how to apply, please visit the website .  Deadline for applications: 5pm, 16 January 2012. Jane Dempster 2011-12-14T12:24:04Z 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 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/20121312 8 December 2011 Jane Dempster 2011-12-13T12:21:13Z GEE team led by Dr Nik Maniatis makes important progress on way to dissect the genetics of complex inheritance http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201112Dec A GEE team led by Dr Nik Maniatis [Heather Elding (PhD student), Winston Lau (PostDoc), Prof Dallas Swallow and Nik] have recently made important progress on the way to dissect the genetics of complex inheritance. Jane Dempster 2011-12-12T10:48:23Z GEE launches MRes course in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/20112911 The Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment is launching a new MRes in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation, to start in the 2012/13 academic year. This programme provides training in scientific approaches to studying and preserving biodiversity. The research led programme covers both basic research on the evolutionary and ecological processes that produced our present biodiversity, and applied research on how to preserve this biodiversity in the future. Jane Dempster 2011-11-29T17:24:35Z Paper by Roger Wotton and Terry Preston selected for book published by the University of California Press http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee/gee-news-publication/201130Sept Although 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by water, the microbiology of the water-air interface has been largely ignored. To redress this important omission, a paper on natural surface films by Roger Wotton and Terry Preston has been selected for the publication "Topics in Prokaryotic and Virus Biology" published recently by the University of California Press: view article Jane Dempster 2011-09-30T09:34:18Z