News
May 2025
Jingcheng Wei visits Clark University with a Company of Biologists collaboration grant
Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics
18 May 2025Jingcheng Wei, a second-year PhD in the Martin-Duran lab funded with a CSC scholarship, is visiting Prof Meyer's lab at Clark University in the US. He will spend four weeks there, learning how to microinject the oocytes of marine annelids to apply genome editing tools to investigate invertebrate development. Exciting! [more]
Centre PDRAs participate in the annual SBBS PDRA summer symposium
Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics
8 May 2025PDRAs in the Centre have had a prominent role in this year's SBBS PDRA research symposium, with oral presentations by Nayeli Escudero, Lan Xu, Madeleine Carruthers, and Angelica Miglioli, and posters by Richard Heery, Allan Carrillo and Lokdeep Teekas. Well done! [more]
April 2025
Dr de Mendoza visits University of Hong Kong as a Royal Society Kan Tong Po Fellow
Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics
20 April 2025Dr Alexandre de Mendoza visited the School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) as a Royal Society Kan Tong Po Fellow to expand his collaborative research with Associate Professor Dr Ralf Jauch. Recently, a collaboration between the two labs and the Max ... [more]
March 2025
Allan wins the first runner-up prize for the Node-FocalPlane image competition
Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics
27 March 2025Dr Allan Carrillo-Baltodano, a postdoctoral researcher in Chema Martín-Durán's lab, was named the first runner-up in the Node–FocalPlane image competition, held alongside the Biologists @ 100 conference. His striking confocal image of a phoronid worm larva, highlighting its vibrant ciliary structures, captivated audiences online and in person. Well done, ... [more]
February 2025
A Night of Science and Engineering: exploring Tomorrow's World at Queen Mary
Faculty of Science and Engineering
24 February 2025Queen Mary University of London's third annual Night of Science and Engineering brought together leading industry partners, researchers, academics, policymakers, and the public for an evening of discovery, innovation, and collaboration. Held in the historic Octagon venue on 20 Feb, this year's event, themed 'Tomorrow's World', showcased groundbreaking research that is ... [more]