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Â鶹ÊÓƵ works to deliver impact by translating our science and understanding of fundamental biology to promote lifelong health and wellbeing. Our blogs offer scientists, staff and guests the chance to share their individual views and experiences on the Â鶹ÊÓƵ's efforts to deliver research impacts and to build a welcoming and diverse community.

 

 

16/03/2018

Passion, enthusiasm and a thirst for knowledge at Schools’ Day

Jo Montgomery, a member of the , describes how Schools’ Day projects bring out the best in scientists and students

schools day | schools | secondary schools
By Jo Montgomery

01/02/2018

Cambridge Academy for Science & Technology students find inspiration for their investigations

The ‘Protein Challenge’ project at the combines an introduction to key molecular biology techniques and practical lab-based sessions to assay protein activity. Here the students tell us more about what they got up to on their recent visit to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ to learn more about our research and facilities

 By Guest Blogger

31/01/2018

The excitement of science communication

In November, as part of 360 Science, we invited science author and broadcaster to visit the Â鶹ÊÓƵ to talk about her career and offer tips on getting started in communications. Here PhD student Christina Courreges reflects on Kat’s presentation and what she took away from it.

communication | phd student | training | science communication | women in science

17/01/2018

St Faith’s trip to Â鶹ÊÓƵ

A class of year 6 children from recently visited the Imaging Facility on campus to learn more about cells. They were thrilled to see the  microscopes and detailed images that we can take on them. They also used the microscopes we have as resource for our public engagement programme to look at a range of slides and the nematode worm . We received a wonderful thank you letter from each child which highlighted how much they had enjoyed the afternoon.

imaging-facility | primary
By Guest Blogger

10/01/2018

Let’s create an exhibition

In November the Â鶹ÊÓƵ heard it was successful in the competitive selection to showcase its upcoming exhibition, the “Race Against the Ageing Clockâ€, at the in London this summer. Esther van Vliet, Public Engagement Officer, is part of the exhibit development team and shares here how work has begun on the creation of the exhibit.

ageing clock | royal society | epigenetics

03/01/2018

Learning to talk about my research

Chiara Pantarelli, a 3rd year PhD student in Heidi Welch's group at Â鶹ÊÓƵ took part in a recent Media Training day to help her to build her skills in talking to a wide audience about her research.

phd student | training

25/12/2017

Engagement Highlights 2017!

At this special festive time, Tacita Croucher, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Public Engagement Manager reflects on the public engagement work our staff and students have been organising and participating in this year.

adults | chromos | december | engagement | highlights | public | public engagement | schools

20/12/2017

ORION @ENGAGE - Esther's baptism of fire!

About a month ago Esther van Vliet joined the Public Engagement team at Â鶹ÊÓƵ as a maternity cover to work on the , a Horizon2020 European Commission funded project that aims to explore new ways to open up the way the Â鶹ÊÓƵ does research. Her baptism of fire happened last week at the annual conference ENGAGE.

co-creation | open science | orion

20/12/2017

ENGAGE 2017 – collaboration and inspiration

Michael Hinton muses on the ENGAGE Conference, run by the

conference | public engagement | training
By Michael Hinton

13/12/2017

A match made on campus

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s basic science benefits in a very real sense from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ's proximity to a number of industry-leading biotechnology companies on the Babraham Research Campus.  In this blog Rahul Roychoudhuri tells us about a developing partnership between our Immunology Programme and Cancer Research UK Therapeutic Discovery Laboratories.

babraham research campus | collaborative research | industry

08/12/2017

Launching Challenge Projects in the Netherlands

Alex Harvey, an Animal Technician in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s animal unit (BSU) describes how she joined Boo Virk (a postdoc in the Casanueva Group) and Dori Horkai (a PhD student in the Houseley Group) and the Public Engagement team's Michael Hinton in the third year of a collaboration with in the Netherlands.
 

animals in science | animal research | Technician | careers | international | secondary

29/11/2017

The stars of SymBLS

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Symposium for Biological Life Sciences (SymBLS) for early career researchers is a well established forum for Life Science graduates across Cambridge.   This year’s organising committee share their thoughts on the 2017 event and give us a ‘behind the scenes’ look at what it takes to run this excellent event.

21/11/2017

Campus collaboration leads to further investment

Becky Gilley, a post doc in the Cook lab is the latest KEC blog contributor.  Becky has been involved in a Babraham Research Campus Collaboration Fund (BRCCF) project which has gone from strength to strength.  Her blog tells us why the BRCCF has been critical in securing further funding and what this collaborative research project has meant to her.

babraham research campus | collaborative research | industry
By Rebecca Gilley

21/11/2017

Pipetting Workshop at Newmarket Academy Science Club

John Pascall, who is a regular contributor to Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Public Engagement activities, describes the challenges of going back to school at .

science club | secondary schools

15/11/2017

The importance of knowledge exchange in political engagement

James Tooze, Policy Officer at the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), takes up the reigns in this latest KEC post. In his guest blog, James tells us about the partnership between CaSE and Â鶹ÊÓƵ and explains why scientists’ engagement in policy is so important. 
 

partner | policy

09/11/2017

From Barcelona to Babraham

In our third and final Innovative Training Network (ITN) KEC Blog series, we hear from visiting PhD student Piotr KobiaÅ‚ka on his recent knowledge exchange visit to Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Piotr is a PhD student in Dr Mariona Graupera’s lab in (Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge) in Barcelona.  He tells us why this visit helped his research and why researcher mobility is so important to advance scientific programmes:
 

phd student | pi3k | innovative training network
By Piotr Kobialka

31/10/2017

Making our Mark at Big Biology Day

Prof. Wolf Reik, Associate Director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Head of the Epigenetics Research Programme was part of a team of scientists who took a new exhibit on Epigenetics to Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form College in October.

epigenetics | nuclear dynamics | public | science festivals | sixth form
By Wolf Reik

26/10/2017

Retreating is crucial to advance

We are very proud to share this latest KEC blog by Babaraham Â鶹ÊÓƵ post docs, Clara Novo, Danika Hill and Claire Senner.  In a drive to bring the International postdoc community together, our BI pioneers tell us exactly how they established the first EU-LIFE joint postdoc retreat.

eulife | international | networking | postdoctoral research

20/10/2017

A PhD life for me!

In the second of our ITN (Innovative Training Network) blog series, PhD student in Babraham’s Signalling Programme, Piotr Jung, lab tells us why this program is so important for advancing knowledge of key biological concepts. 
 

#innovativetrainingnetwork | pi3k

19/10/2017

Chromos VR at Science Museum Lates

Zahra Fahmi, a researcher in the Lipkow laboratory, describes her involvement in the Chromos project showcase at the ‘CelluLates’ event at the Science Museum, London

chromos | nuclear dynamics | public

17/10/2017

Schools' Day - igniting a passion for science

As he starts to plan Schools' Day for 2018, Michael Hinton, part of the Public Engagement team, looks back at the event in previous years and reports views from students, teachers and from both junior and senior researchers who run projects on the day.

secondary | teachers | schools day | secondary schools
By Michael Hinton

16/10/2017

​Success for The Royal Society Worm Project at Cambridge Young Scientist Journal Conference

Guest blogger Ella Willsmore, a student at , describes her experiences at the  conference in Cambridge, during which she won a prize for her poster, which outlined her work with Olivia Casanueva's group on a  project.

epigenetics | royal society | secondary
By Guest Blogger

09/10/2017

Networks pave the way for early stage researchers

In the first of our series of KEC Blogs from Innovative Training Network (ITN) students, we hear from PhD student Christina Courreges about her involvement and the legacy of a recent workshop held at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.  
 

#innovativetrainingnetwork | pi3k

05/10/2017

Postdoc policies gain momentum

As one of the sponsors of the first National Post Doc meeting held in Cambridge recently, Babraham Â鶹ÊÓƵ are proud to report on the success of the event. BI Post doc and co-organiser, Dr Sven Sewitz, shares his view of the event and tells us what plans are in store for next year.

knowledge exchange | policy | postdoctoral research