Leeds PhD Student Stars in Be Curious 2022 Show

White Rose DTP PhD student, Alex Holmes, developed and hosted an interactive gameshow at this year’s Be Curious Festival in Leeds! We spoke to the superstar science communicator about the festival, how she came to be involved, and what she loves most about public engagement and making science accessible.

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BBSRC White Rose DTP PhD Students Organize Pint of Science Event in York

A group of BBSRC White Rose DTP students from the University of York have teamed up to organize this year’s Pint of Science event in York – bringing cutting-edge research to a boozer near you. We spoke to event co-ordinator, and 3rd Year PhD student, Conor Scott to learn more about the event and what he hopes it will achieve.

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PhD Researcher wins place in international ‘Falling Walls’ public engagement final

Biology PhD researcher Theo Issitt, from the University of York, heads to Berlin in November after beating off strong competition to win a place in the final of the international Falling Walls ‘Emerging Talent’ competition.

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Another award for a White Rose student!

MonoGram logo taken from the site
http://www.monogram.ac.uk/MECEA.php

Cara Wheeldon of The University of Leeds has won the 2021 Monogram Early Career Excellence Award (MECEA)! Her work on barley, pea, and Arabidopsis plant sensing genes could potentially increase our growing understanding of how plant roots interact with each other and their environment. Identifying and understanding these genetic functions could potentially improve crop health and productivity. Obviously both Cara Wheeldon and the potential of her research greatly impressed the Monogram and Rank Prize Fund’s. As part of the DTP she has done us proud and we hope to continue to see her and others succeed!

Cara Wheeldon White Rose profile photo

Cara’s Profile: https://www.whiterose-mechanisticbiology-dtp.ac.uk/phdproject/the-role-of-root-exudates-in-density-dependent-growth-responses-in-plants/

White Rose’s Mycrobio Team Wins at YES20 Competition

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Some good news from the DTP! the team Mycrobio funded by the White Rose DTP won the prize for “Best IP strategy” sponsored by Potter Clarkson at the YES20 competition. After a long delay due to COVID the competition finally took place on April 23rd, with the team submitting an IP strategy to use microbiome sequencing to create bespoke skincare products with the aim of restoring and maintaining a healthy skin microbiome.

The team consisted of a group of students comprising all our partner institutions including the Universities of Sheffield, York, and Leeds. This group has been a great example of the benefits of inter cohort participation!

Mycrobio YES20 submission cover photo

And without further adieu the particpating members were

  • Alice Seleiro “Team Leader” (Sheffield)
  • Orlagh Anderson (York)
  • Laurence De Lussy-Kubisa (Sheffield)
  • Maia Harvey (Leeds)
  • Jack Wright (Leeds)

Great job to all those above and hopefully we can do some more articles on you all again soon!

Dorothy Hawkins – COVID-19 – Look North

Dorothy Hawkins and colleagues COVID-19 lab team

Dorothy Hawkins is a third year DTP student.  She featured on the BBC Look North (Yorkshire) news on 20th April 2020.  In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dorothy and her colleagues at The University of York have stepped up to the challenge.  They are working at top speed to try and better understand the new coronavirus.

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Dragon’s Den Winning Teams

Our second year students worked together in cross-institutional teams to develop business ideas, which they presented to a panel of expert innovation and industry ‘Dragons’ at the Fera Training Day. There were moments of sheer brilliance, fun and a little bit of terror when faced with the Dragon’s questions. The Dragons were impressed with the students’ research into the commercial aspects of their business idea and it was difficult to choose a winner but after much discussion the Dragons were able to select the winning and runner-up teams.

Here are the teams receiving their prize from our External Advisory Board member Rose Maciewicz, VP Strategy Respiratory and Inflammation iMed at AstraZeneca:

2017 Dragons Den winning team:
Philip Kirk, Leeds
Sarah Flannery, Sheffield
Paul Bond, York
Oliver Prosser, Leeds
Matt Chadwick, Leeds

2017 Dragons Den runner up team:
Marcus Holt, Leeds
Jenny Hayes, York
Tom Burns, Sheffield
Oliver Herd, York
Sarah Good, Leeds

Prizes galore at our DTP Research Symposium in York

The White Rose BBSRC DTP Research Symposium was held at the University of York on 15th Dec 2017 and showcased the work of our third year and final year students. This was organised by a committee of our DTP students, led by York student Lewis White, and was a great success.

Rose thanking the excellent Student Organising Committee with chocolates . . .

We would like to congratulate all the students for their high quality presentations and posters, which were very well received by the symposium delegates. The winners of the presentation and poster competitions were very well deserved and had to fight off stiff competition from their fellow students.

Here are all the winners receiving their prize from our External Advisory Board member Rose Maciewicz, VP Strategy Respiratory and Inflammation iMed at AstraZeneca:

Best research talk:
Giovanna Pesante, York

Best PIPS talk:
Jordan Talbot, Sheffield

Best Poster teaser talk:
Joseph Ward, Leeds

Best 4th year Poster:
Caitlin McQueen, York

Best 3rd year Poster:
Emma Stewart, York

Prize winning DTP Students

The White Rose BBSRC DTP Research Symposium was held at the University of Leeds on 15th Dec 2015 and showcased the work of our final year students.

We would like to congratulate all the students for their high quality 3 min thesis presentations and posters.  The winners of the 3MT and poster competitions were very well deserved and had to fight off stiff competition from their fellow students.  Here are all the winners receiving their prize from Robert Hardwick, BBSRC:

Bob Schiffrin, University of Leeds. Symposium 3MT competition winning student.

Keir Bailey, University of York. Double Symposium 3MT and Poster competition winning student.

Nathan Garnham, University of Sheffield. Symposium Poster competition winning student.