Sunday 29 December 2013

Sunday 22 December 2013

Perspective on mathematical biology - Going back to go forward


This post by the Director of the WCMB, Prof. Philip Maini, is an extended version of his recent article in the SMB Newsletter.

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Sunday 15 December 2013

Mathematical modelling of tumour-induced angiogenesis

In this post Lucy Hutchinson, a first-year D.Phil. student at the WCMB, describes her research in mathematical modelling of angiogenesis. Update: Lucy has won the Microsoft Research Project Prize for the best DTC short project in her cohort.

Sunday 8 December 2013

Pre-print servers: dangerous ways to lose your ideas, or a way to accelerate science and your career?

In this post Dr Jacob Scott, a third-year D.Phil. student at the WCMB, discusses the use of pre-print servers in biology. You can find Jake's own research blog here.

Monday 2 December 2013

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

This year the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures will be delivered by Dr Alison Woollard who is here in Oxford. Her work is in the area of developmental biology so should be of interest to WCMB'ers and other readers of this blog.