School of the Biological Sciences
About this community
The School of the Biological Sciences encompasses the Faculty Board of Biology and the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine and is represented on the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine. It has responsibilities across three Triposes (the Natural Sciences Tripos, Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos).
Find out more about the School of the Biological Sciences at http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Centre for Family Research
Has a worldwide reputation for innovative research that increases understanding of children, parents and family relationships -
Centre for Trophoblast Research
Promotes scientific study of the placenta, the organ that interfaces between the mother and her baby during pregnancy -
Department of Biochemistry
An internationally competitive research programme; themes include cell signalling and control of gene expression, to molecular microbiology, plant molecular biology and biofuel research, cancer and cardiovascular biology
Recent Submissions
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Interplay between interkinetic nuclear migration and cell fate determination in the developing zebrafish retina
The vertebrate central nervous system (CNS) is arranged into exquisitely organized strata from a diverse collection of neuronal types. The zebrafish retina is a well-established model for studying the vertebrate CNS because ... -
Analysis and Engineering of Polyene Biosynthesis in Actinomycetes
(2019-05-18)The work in this thesis concerns the biosynthetic pathways to antibiotic natural products in actinomycete bacteria, and evaluates three different approaches to accessing novel chemical diversity from these pathways. In ... -
Effector-driven actin reorganisation restricts Salmonella invasion.
(2019-07-20)A critical step in the pathogenesis of enteric bacteria such as Salmonella is entering the host cell. To achieve this, Salmonella inject effector proteins into the cytosol of the cell and manipulate the actin cytoskeleton, ... -
Understanding Mathematics Anxiety: Investigating the experiences of UK primary and secondary school students
(Centre for Neuroscience in Education, 2019-03-14)The project investigated individuals’ attitudes towards mathematics because of what could be referred to as a “mathematics crisis” in the UK. Evidence suggests that functional literacy skills amongst working-age adults are ...
