A Ph.D. studentship is available to join our group at Warwick! The project is a collaboration with Idan Tuval (IMEDEA, Spain) and Giorgio Volpe (UCL, UK). It will focus on dynamics and control of active matter suspensions, with a large experimental component (but most likely also some modelling/numerical simulations). To know more see here, and send us an email!

Iago has been awarded a Flexible Training Award (£690) from the MRC IBR DTP to fund his participation to the IFF Spring School 2018. Well done Iago!

Matteo had a great Ph.D. viva yesterday, and is finally Dr. Contino! (Ok, he still has some minor corrections… but still). He will now move to Oxford to work for a spin-off of the University of Oxford.

Well done Matteo and good luck for the future!

Congrats to Matteo Contino for turning in his thesis on “Characterisation and control of the dynamical properties of swimming microorganisms under confinement”!

We had the great pleasure to host for two months Julia Dolger, PhD student from the group of Anders Andersen and Thomas Kiorboe at the Technical University of Denmark. She’s been working very hard during her short stay here on a joint project looking at microbial predator/prey systems, and we had lots of interesting discussions! Good luck to her for the final part of her PhD and let’s keep in touch!

Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Studies has granted us a small grant to kickstart a new interdepartmental network on microfluidics for life sciences and medical applications. This marks the birth of Warwick Biological MicroFluidics (WBMi): watch this space over the next months for developments!

Great news! In collaboration with John McCarthy (Warwick SLS) we got a small grant from Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre to support Ollie Sinfield for a few months after his PhD. Ollie will be working with us to develop a microfluidic channel to trap multiple generation of budding yeast cells for long-timescale microscopy. This will enable the study of inheritance of ageing dynamics.

Congratulations to Richard for winning a travel grant from the Research Conference Fund of the Institute of Physics! This grant will allow him to present his latest research results at the 4th International Soft Matter Conference in Grenoble this September. Well done Richard!

It’s nice to start the week with good news: Richard has obtained a C R Barber Trust fund to attend the Principles of Biological and Robotic Navigation conference this August in Dresden. Good stuff Richard!

Great news today! George Parry, MSc-R Physics student co-supervised with Meera, has been accepted at the 2016 IFOM summer school in Quantitative Biology! This will be an excellent opportunity for this young physicist to get some hands-on training on cell biology!