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Salmonella, who gives a faeces?


Salmonella is not just about bad eggs, it causes a devastating global disease to rival malaria. How is bioinformatics helping to tackle it?

  • 23 April 2019
  • Science
  • CSP

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Emma's Antarctic Adventure: Algae and climate change


Emma Langan, a PhD student in EI's Leggett group has been on a six-week expedition to Antarctica to analyse the effects of climate change on coccolithophores with real-time DNA sequencing algorithms.

  • 15 April 2019
  • Science
  • CSP

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Women in computing: guts, bioinformatics and yoghurt


Agatha Treveil is in the third year of her PhD, which she says is her favourite yet! How did she get into bioinformatics, and where will it take her?

  • 26 March 2019
  • Learning
  • CSP

Quick read | 5 min READ

Day in the life of… a master microbiologist


At EI, our plant biotechnology and scientific experts are leading the way in genome engineering - setting the standards for synthetic biology techniques and methods.

  • 20 March 2019
  • Learning

Feature | 5 min READ

Sherlock: elementary genomics


Soon to be open source, how is Sherlock helping to store and analyse bioinformatics big data?

  • 18 March 2019
  • Technology

Feature | 5 min READ

Hammer to the anvil: Synthetic biology & the DNA Foundry


How can Synthetic Biology help us to redesign life: from drugs and food through to living factories, or perhaps even teeth-cleaning microbes?

  • 11 March 2019
  • Science

Feature | 10 min READ

Women in Science: Michelle Grey, living the dream


From falling in love with science, to escaping domestic violence, then the journey to EI via MSN messenger: follow Michelle Grey’s inspiring story.

  • 07 March 2019
  • Learning

Feature | 5 min READ

Ten years in genome sequencing: Darren Heavens


Genome sequencing has advanced rapidly in the last ten years, and Darren Heavens has been at the heart of it! So, how’s it changed and where’s it going?

  • 04 March 2019
  • Learning