Dr Maria Filippakopoulou has joined EASTBIO DTP as Administrator, based at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

With a humanities background (comparative literature and translation), Maria has worked at centres of excellence of the University of Edinburgh such as the Applied Quantitative Methods Network, School of Law and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, as well as the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia.

Bringing along her experience in organising academic events and training through such roles, she is delighted to work with EASTBIO partners and stakeholders to deliver on its important programme.
 

The University of Aberdeen has advertised three additional EastBio DTP projects for one fully-funded PhD studentship to be awarded by EastBio DTP:

• Exploring and Exploiting the Biosynthesis of Myriocin, a Potent Fungal Metabolite
• Building Biologically-based Micon-scale Structures out of Lignin
• Newly Generated HMGB1-Inhibitors as a Novel Neuroprotective Treatment

Please check regularly the website for updates on available opportunities.
 

Wednesday 17th October saw the 35 new BBSRC-funded EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership students and their supervisors gather in Dundee for our first annual Induction Day.

The day was a great opportunity for everyone to meet each other and to hear introductory talks from the Academic Management Group, including Professor Clare Blackburn, Dr Den Barrault, Dr Bernadette Connolly and Professor Paul Crocker. The afternoon was spent in breakout discussion groups based around our research themes: Food Security, Industrial Biotechnology, Lifelong Health & Wellbeing and World Class Underpinning Bioscience. The day ended with a drinks reception and was kindly hosted and organised by the University of Dundee.