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Di passes viva with minor corrections!

26 July 2018

Many congratulations to Di, who passed her viva with minor corrections. Di's thesis entitled ' Cell-cycle dependent motility of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and its collective motion in response to a Hagen-Poiseuille flow'. U sing tracking microscopy, Di has for the first time charted several motility and physiological...

Di has submitted her thesis!

20 June 2018

We are delighted that Di has submitted her thesis entitled 'Cell-cycle dependent motility of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and its collective motion in response to a Hagen-Poiseuille flow'. Di's PhD work combined microscopy and macroscopic imaging with continuum and individual based models to understand how physiological and...

Hannah returns from Antarctica

17 May 2018

Hannah has returned from her Homeward Bound expedition to Antarctica, which has been a fantastic experience.

Welcome Praneet

17 May 2018

We are delighted to welcome Newton-Bhabha fellow Praneet Prakash to the lab. He will be joining the lab for the next four months to work on quantifying gravitactic self-concentration of freshater and marine algae. Praneet recently completed his PhD at the Center for Nanoscience and Engineering , part of the Indian...

Mutualism at a distance paper published

18 March 2018

Soil microbes, such microalgae, bacteria and fungi, are able to feed each other essential nutrients. Mutualistic relationships arise when one microbe needs a nutrient that another can provide, and viceversa. Using a mathematical model we predict the survival of mutualistic microbial populations growing in chambers...

Hannah wins Microbiology Society talk prize at MMEG 2017

16 January 2018

Hannah was selected to give a talk at this year's Molecular Microbial Ecology Group Meeting (MMEG 2017) and we are very pleased to announce that she won a prize from the Microbiology Society for her talk. Well done Hannah!

Praneet Prakash awarded Newton-Bhabha fellowship

11 December 2017

We are very happy to announce that Praneet Prakash was awarded Newton-Bhabha fellowship to come and work in our group for four months next year. Praneet is currently completing his PhD at the Center for Nanoscience and Engineering , part of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore . He is working on self-assembly and...

Di awarded grant from the Philosophical Society

11 December 2017

Di has been awarded a grant from the Cambrdige Philophical Society to support her research after she completes her PhD thesis. This generous support is gratefully acknowledged!

Otti giving Pint of Science Talk

17 May 2017

Otti will be giving a talk at the 'Planet Under the Microscope' Pint of Science popular science event at the Six Bells pub. Also speaking are Pete Convey (British Antarctic Survey) and Eileen Nisbet (Department of Biochemistry). The event will be held on Wednesday the 17th of May. More details at https://pintofscience.co...

Gyrotactic dispersion paper published

9 March 2017

The orientation of many swimming algae, e.g. the species Chlamydomonas and Dunaliella, is biased by gravity and fluid shear. This is known as gyrotaxis. It causes the peculiar dispersion of suspensions of swimming algae in pipe flows, such as those in industrial photobioreactors. In a paper published today in the Journal...

Di passes viva with minor corrections!

Di has submitted her thesis!

Hannah returns from Antarctica

Welcome Praneet

Mutualism at a distance paper published

Hannah wins Microbiology Society talk prize at MMEG 2017

Praneet Prakash awarded Newton-Bhabha fellowship

Di awarded grant from the Philosophical Society

Otti giving Pint of Science Talk

Gyrotactic dispersion paper published

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