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BSCB 2020 Competitions: Deadline 29th February
The annual BSCB image and science writing competitions are open, with the deadline of 29th February 2020. Both have cash prizes, so if you would like to showcase your artistic or literary talents, please enter! Image Competition This is open to all of our members. We would like particularly to encourage entries that show cells […]
Interested in Cilia? This Royal Society Publishing special issue might be work a look!
Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B entitled Unity and diversity of cilia in locomotion and transport, a Theo Murphy meeting issue compiled and edited by Kirsty Y Wan and Gáspár Jékely and the articles can be accessed directly at www.bit.ly/PTB1792 A print version is also available at […]
BSCB Women In Cell Biology Medal 2020 winner: Yanlan Mao
Our second major award of the year, the early career award for female scientists, has been made to Yanlan Mao, Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London. You can read more about the award here and about her work here. Yanlan will present her medal lecture at the joint […]
BSCB Hooke Medal 2020 Winner
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Hooke Medal for 2020 is Prof. Ian Chambers, from the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Ian presented his medal lecture online at Dynamic Cell IV, a joint meeting of the BSCB and the Biochemical Society, in March of 2021. You can read more […]
New Application Process for BSCB Funding
We have recently updated the process of applying for our travel grants and summer studentships. Both are now managed through an online system, only accessible to members. You will first need to register for the online system, using your registered email address and membership number here. This will have a separate password from the one […]
preLists – charting the waters of the preprint sea
The Company of Biologists have announced the launch of preLists, a new initiative within preLights where early-career researchers (preLighters) curate lists of preprints for the community. These lists follow two main themes: preprints on a specific topic or preprints which have been presented at scientific meetings. Our preLighters can also add brief one-liner summaries to […]
2019 BSCB Science Writing Prize Winning Entry Now Online
At the BSCB/BSDB joint Spring meeting in Warwick last month, we announced the winner of our Science Writing Prize as Laura Hankins from the University of Oxford. You can now read her fabulous winning entry, together with a little about Laura here. Details about the competition and links to previous winners can also be found […]
BSCB Image Prize 2019: results announced!
Did you guess what it was? Whether you were at the 2019 Spring Meeting in Warwick or not, you may not be able to guess the identity of the sample that produced this year’s first-prize winning image! All is now revealed: you can find out about the winning images and their creators here. Thanks, as […]
NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: BSCB meeting funding for regional career development meetings for PhD students and postdocs
. New type of regional meeting run by PhD students and postdocs on careers and networking . Scientific discussions can be part of the programme as long as the primary theme is career development . Limited to £500 for ~0.5 day activity . Preferable if BSCB members from more than 1 university are involved in […]