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The latest news and updates of what CoMPLEX students and supervisors are contributing to the scientific world.
Student Annual Conference 2016The annual CoMPLEX conference this year was held at Cumberland Lodge situated in Windsor Great Park. The theme this year was 'The (Mis)representation of Science', so along with great talks by both CoMPLEX PhD students and students from the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, we had several invited speakers to talk about the theme. Joanne Thomas from Sense about Science talked about how to stand up for science and Dr Peter Broks gave us some insight into the history of popular science. The story of a particular clash between industry and academic freedom of speech was recounted by Adrian Timpson and our keynote talk at the conference was given by Prof David Colquhoun, who delivered an excellent talk on the problems of the academia system and the misuse of statistics, amongst many other important issues. We also had a very thought provoking discussion on 'Who is to blame for the misrepresentation of science', this was chaired by Science Communicator and actor Stephen McGann, and also featured Lucy van Dorp, Prof Andrew Pomiankowski and Dr Peter Broks. As well as promoting debate about the theme of the conference, the event was a great opportunity to talk about our research to one another in a relaxed environment. |  |
| CoMPLEX PhD Student Publication Clonal status of actionable driver events and the timing of mutational processes in cancer evolution Recently graduated CoMPLEX PhD student, Dr Nicholas McGranahan has recently published a paper that has been receiving a lot of interest in the press including from the BBC and the Guardian. |  |
| CoMPLEX PhD Student Publication Activation of G Proteins Nucleotide Exchange Factors Relies on GTPase Activity Recently graduated PhD student Dr Robert Stanley is lead author on paper based on his PhD which was recently published in PLOS One |  |
| CoMPLEX PhD Student Publication Visualising apoptosis in live zebrafish using fluorescence lifetime imaging with optical projection tomography to map FRET biosensor activity in space and time Third year PhD student, Nicola Lockwood has had another paper published in the Journal of Biophotonics. |  |
| CoMPLEX PhD Student Publication Identification of neutral tumor evolution across cancer types CoMPLEX alumni, Dr Trevor Graham is lead author on a paper with second year CoMPLEX PhD student, Marc Williams, published in Nature Genetics |  |
CoMPLEX PhD Student Publication: Important factors determining the nanoscale tracking precision of dynamic microtubule ends Nils Gustafsson recently had a paper published in the Journal of Microscopy |  |
| PhD Student Publication: Why we think the very first farmers were small groups with property rights CoMPLEX PhD student, Elizabeth Gallagher has had a paper published on The Conversation |  |
Professor John O'Keefe wins Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine CoMPLEX supervisor, John O'Keefe has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain - an 'inner GPS' - that enables us to orient ourselves. 10 October 2014 |  |
Student publication on PLoS Biology
The article has been assigned the front page of the journal and it has since received coverage on New Scientist (where it was also granted the front page), International Business Times, the Daily Mail Online, and BBC Radio 5 Live's Naked Scientists podcast of 17 August. 13 August 2014 |  |
PhD Student publication on human vision PhD student Manos Protonotarios is the lead author on the article "An absolute interval scale if order for point patterns", published today on the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
30 July 2014 |  |
PhD Student Microscopy Publication CoMPLEX PhD student Sian Culley has contributed to the article "Low power super resolution fluorescence microscopy by lifetime modification and image reconstruction". The article can be accessed on the website of the journal Optics Express. 14 May 2014 |  |
PhD Student Nutrition Publication CoMPLEX PhD student Rob Stanley has contributed to a significant study of nutrition entitled "A probabilistic model to evaluate population dietary recommendations". The article is published on the British Journal of Nutrition and can be accessed here. 8 May 2014 |  |
MRes Student publishes on Current Biology CoMPLEX MRes student Nils Gustafsson has contributed to an article on the prestigious journal Current Biology. The paper is entitled "EB1 Accelerates Two Conformational Transitions Important for Microtubule Maturation and Dynamics" and at present can be freely accessed on Current Biology's website. 9 March 2014 |  |