Adam Sardar, a penultimate-year PhD student at the Bristol Centre for Complexity Science (BCCS), has won the Outstanding Poster Award at the premier international computational biology conference ISMB2011 for his work on horizontal gene transfer and its impact on the tree of life.
A new study by academics at the University of Bristol has shown that encouraging strips of wild plants at the edges of fields is important for supporting bees and other important pollinators.
An international team of scientists at the University of Bristol and Newcastle has been awarded £760,000 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to investigate the changing mass of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Ever since the era of silent films, smoking has played a major part in film symbolism. Think Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s or Robert De Niro in Goodfellas. But iconic scenes such as these could be damaging the health of teenagers, who are more likely to smoke after watching films depicting the habit.
Research from Dr Andrew Radford of the School of Biological Sciences into allopreening by green woodhoopoes was covered by the Daily Mail, Planet Earth and Live Science.
Research into the auto-immune arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, by Dr David Evans in the School of Social and Community Medicine was covered by The Independent, The Times and several medical websites.
The Bristol Robotics Laboratory, a research partnership between the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol, will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.
A team of neuroscientists and anaesthetists, who have been using pioneering techniques to study how the brain regulates the heart, has identified a crucial part of the nervous system whose malfunction may account for an increased risk of death from heart failure. The findings, published online (ahead of print) in the Journal of Physiology, could lead to more targeted therapies to help reduce serious illness and death in cardiovascular disease.
Researchers from the University’s Centre for Communications Research visited Osaka, Japan recently to present details of the UK’s progress on ‘smart energy’ to the UK-Japan Smart Grids and Smart Communities Workshop.
A Bristol University student has been sowing the seeds for a lasting Olympic legacy in Kenya, building sports pitches as part of the city’s growing relationship with the African country.
