News
  • Summer 2025: Iain is awarded an 11m NOK FRIPRO grant for mitochondrial research, topped up by a 6m NOK grant to support an international researcher joining us!
  • Summer 2025: Rajneesh successfully defends his thesis — congratulations!
  • Fall 2024: Belén successfully defends her thesis — congratulations!
  • Fall 2024: We host the Workshop on Harmonising Accumulation Models (WHAM) at Solstrand!
  • Summer 2024: Olav wins a CAMRIA Young Researcher Grand Prix award — congrats!
  • Spring 2024: Jessica wins the Poster Prize at the Nordic AMR Research Center Conference — congrats!
  • Spring 2024: Iain is Co-I on a Trond Mohn project exploring diabetes progression!
  • Fall 2023: Iain is featured in the Society for Experimental Biology’s “Scientists With Impact” series
    (and before I started noting the seasons…)
  • Maria and Shibani join the group as experimental and theoretical postdoctoral researchers respectively… welcome!
  • Olav joins the group as a medical-track PhD project student… welcome!
  • Iain is awarded the Meltzer Prize for research!
  • Kazeem joins the group as a postdoc in biostatistics… welcome!
  • Jessica joins the group as a PhD student… welcome!
  • Jo successfully defends her thesis… congratulations!
  • PNAS paper on evolution of symmetry is featured in New York Times, Salon, Discovery, and more!
  • Yusra and Fabio join the group as MSc students… welcome!
  • Rajneesh wins gold at the CEDAS conference quiz — congrats!
  • Marcus is awarded an Aker scholarship for further study in the US… congratulations!
  • Rajneesh joins the group as a PhD student… welcome!
  • Iain is awarded a Peder Sather grant for collaboration with Berkeley!
  • Marcus joins the group as a project student… welcome!
  • Iain is PI on a 9m NOK Trond Mohn grant using maths to learn about AMR evolution!
  • Jo wins the Plant Journal talk prize at iPSB 2021 — congrats!
  • Belén joins the group as a PhD student… welcome!
  • Jo wins the New England Biolabs talk prize at BGRS! Congrats!
  • Arunas joins the group as a visiting fellow… welcome!
  • Kostas and Robert join the group… welcome!
  • Clare successfully defends her thesis… congratulations!
  • Ryan wins the £200 Best Poster prize at UoB PhD poster day!
  • Iain is Co-I on £3.3m NERC grant exploring the effects of elevated CO2 on nutrient cycling in woodland!
  • Iain is PI on a £281k EPSRC Grant developing HyperTraPS!
  • Clare wins the Best Talk prize at UoB Biosciences PhD day!
  • Iain is the Society for Experimental Biology President’s Medallist in the Cell category!
  • Iain is PI on a €1.4m ERC StG exploring organelle genome evolution and control!
  • Iain is awarded a Turing Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute!
  • IFLS covers PNAS paper led by George Bassel here (>50K shares); also in Science and the popular press!
  • Clare wins the £1k Research Poster Conference prize at UoB!
  • eBM paper with Nick Jones on vaccines is featured in the popular press, including the Independent, Scientific American, New Scientist, Le Monde, Daily Mirror, Fox News, CNN, Science, …!
  • Our Cell Systems paper on mtDNA gene loss is Science’s #1 favourite news story of the year here!
  • Iain is Co-I on £402k MRC grant using stochastic modelling to explore genome mixing in antimicrobial resistance in the real world!
  • Our MHR work on mtDNA dynamics and human diversity is included in the UK HFEA’s latest policy doc on mtDNA therapy (our previous Cell Rep work was also included here)!
  • Hanne wins the £100 poster prize at MitOX!