The career and research of Professor Roy Quinlan was celebrated in a special symposium organised by his Durham Colleagues and hosted by the BSI. The meeting was held in the spirit of Roy’s substantial contribution to collaborative research and was attended by his colleagues from near and far.

Image above: a VisualPDE.com simulation “Turing on Turing” courtesy of Dr Andrew Krause, Dr Adam Townsend (Durham University) and Dr Benjamin Walker (University of Bath).

In Michaelmas term 2023 we welcomed our Thesis and Howard prize winners to Durham: Dr Katy Cornish (Durham University) and Dr Yuval Elani (Imperial College London).

Our Sharing, late in 2023, brought together our quickly growing community of art-science collaborators. The attendees shared their developing work as well as their experiences of working together, revealing new perspectives and approaches. This aimed to create a pool of shared experience and knowledge that will guide future interactions.  

A BSI-linked, international team of scientists led by Professor Paul Denny has been awarded The MRC Outstanding Team Impact Prize, which recognises the major impact its collaborative team science approach has made in medical research.

Along with Newcastle University and Northumbria University, members of the Biophysical Sciences Institute have secured funding from the BBSRC (ALERT) to bring powerful new cryo-electron microscopy tools (cryoEM) to the North East.

In November 2024 we were very pleased to welcome Dr Ioanna Mela (Cambridge) to Durham as the 2024 Judith Howard Lecture prize winner.

BSI Summer Research Bursaries provide undergraduate students with valuable hands-on research experience in interdisciplinary laboratories. The bursaries support novel research projects, many of which lead to new academic areas, publications, and further funding applications.

Durham, UK – December 12, 2024 – The Early Career Researchers' Winter Symposium 2024, hosted at Durham University, marked an exciting event for the next generation of researchers at the boundaries of the life sciences and the other physical sciences. With over 50 attendees from eight institutions and companies, the one-day event focused on presenting cutting-edge research, and showcasing interdisciplinary discoveries from across biomathematics, biophysics, biological chemistry, chemical biology,