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Photo cred: NFU.Harriet’s research is focused on figuring out the best ways to farm for people, the planet and pigs! There is growing evidence that land sparing (increasing yields on existing farm land and sparing intact habitat for nature) would have the best biodiversity outcomes. However, it is thought that high yield systems perform poorly in o…

Congratulations to Hamish Symington and Laura Taylor (BBSRC DTP Cohort 2017) for the Highly Commended Award in the category of Peer Support.In 2019, the BBSRC DTP programme held for the first time the BBSRC DTP Symposium that included talks from students and  from keynote speakers, a student poster session and interactive sessions with representati…

Congratulations to David Willer, 2016 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the article 'Vitamin Bullets. Microencapsulated Feeds to Fortify Shellfish and Tackle Human Nutrient Deficiencies' in Frontiers in Nutrition.AbstractOver two billion people worldwide are micronutrient deficient, with regionally specific deficiencies.…

Congratulations to David Willer, 2016 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the article 'Sustainable bivalve farming can deliver food security in the tropics' in Nature Food.AbstractBivalve shellfish represent a nutritious and low-impact food source that is underutilized. New innovations in production in this sector could fu…

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Congratulations to Eleanor Miller, 2015 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘Global demographic history of human populations inferred from whole mitochondrial genomes’ in Royal Society, Open Science.AbstractThe Neolithic transition has led to marked increases in census population sizes across the world, as record…

Congratulations to Josie Gaynord, 2014 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘Two‐Component Stapling of Biologically Active and Conformationally Constrained Peptides: Past, Present, and Future’ in Advanced Therapeutics.AbstractPeptides are an emerging class of therapeutics in the pharmaceutical world. Whilst small …

Congratulations to Laura Mitchell, 2014 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘Comparative analysis of nanobody sequence and structure data’ in Proteins.AbstractNanobodies are a class of antigen‐binding protein derived from camelids that achieve comparable binding affinities and specificities to classical antibodie…

Congratulations to Corinne Tovey, 2015 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘γ-TuRC Heterogeneity Revealed by Analysis of Mozart1’ in Current Biology.AbstractMicrotubules are essential for various cell processes [1] and are nucleated by multi-protein γ-tubulin ring complexes (γ-TuRCs) at various microtubule organi…

Congratulations to Rowena Downie, 2015 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘Assessing European Wheat Sensitivities to Parastagonospora nodorum Necrotrophic Effectors and Fine-Mapping the Snn3-B1 Locus Conferring Sensitivity to the Effector SnTox3’ in Frontiers in Plant Science.AbstractParastagonospora nodorum is …

Congratulations to Barney Slater, 2014 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘Solar Water Splitting with a Hydrogenase Integrated in Photoelectrochemical Tandem Cells’ in Angewandte Chemie.AbstractHydrogenases (H2ases) are benchmark electrocatalysts for H2 production, both in biology and (photo)catalysis in vitro. …

Congratulations to Josie Gaynord, 2014 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘Stapled peptides as a new technology to investigate protein–protein interactions in human platelets’in Clinical Science.AbstractPlatelets are blood cells with numerous crucial pathophysiological roles in hemostasis, cardiovascular thrombo…

Congratulations to Celia Alda-Catalinas, 2015 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘Dynamics of the epigenetic landscape during the maternal-to-zygotic transition’ in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.AbstractA remarkable epigenetic remodelling process occurs shortly after fertilization, which restores totipot…

Congratulations to Laura Mitchell, 2014 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘Analysis of nanobody paratopes reveals greater diversity than classical antibodies’ in Protein Engineering, Design and Selection.AbstractNanobodies (Nbs) are a class of antigen-binding protein derived from camelid immune systems, which a…

Congratulations to Celia Alda-Catalinas, 2015 cohort PhD student in the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the paper ‘scNMT-seq enables joint profiling of chromatin accessibility DNA methylation and transcription in single cells’ in Nature Communications.AbstractParallel single-cell sequencing protocols represent powerful methods for investigating…