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Natalie Wallis at GYSS

In January 2023, Natalie attended the world renowned Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) in Singapore.

This is a multi-disciplinary event bringing together scientific minds from 32 countries to discuss science and technology trends, future game changers and how research could address major global challenges. Impressive speakers included multiple Nobel laureates as well as recipients of the Fields Medal, Millennium Technology Prize and Turing Award. This offered Natalie the opportunity to network with world-leading scientists as well as young scientists from across the world. Natalie was also selected to present her PhD research at the GYSS poster session, where she presented her work on obesity genetics.

During GYSS, Natalie also attended a World Café style workshop at TUMCREATE. Attendees explored some of the most pressing questions surrounding the global food crisis including environmental, entrepreneurial, and social factors. Natalie and her fellow young scientists highlighted problems related to the global food crisis and considered how their personal skills and career paths might play a role in overcoming these obstacles.

GYSS is run by National Research Foundation (Singapore) and occurs annually, find out about applying for GYSS 2024 here.

 

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Welcome to our new BBSRC DTP cohort 2023!

10 October 2023

After a three-year funding gap, we are thrilled to announce the arrival of a fresh cohort of DTP students, generously funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Building on last year's successful securing of funding for DTP3, this October marks the commencement of the first cohort, with another set to follow next year.

Cambridge Biosciences DTP student, Maximilian Gantz, wins First Prize for ‘best talk’ at the Department of Biochemistry PhD Symposium

3 October 2023

Max (SBS DTP, cohort 2020), PhD student in Prof. Florian Hollfelder’s lab, was one of the 17 students presenting at the Department of Biochemistry PhD Symposium. His talk, with the title ‘A Microfluidics-enabled Workflow for Rapid Large-scale Fitness Data Generation Informs Biocatalyst Engineering’, won First prize for "best oral presentation".

New Training and Inclusivity Support Manager has been appointed to support our DTP cohorts

27 September 2023

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr Sam Byers as the Training and Inclusivity Support Manager for the Cambridge Biosciences DTP cohorts.