July 23, 2018 12:29: pm | by Sarah Clarke
The Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI) held its yearly conference at the UEA in July 2018. The theme was “Sustainable Use and Exploitation of Fishes”, and one of the presenters was Ryan S. Mohammed from the University of the West Indies (UWI) who presented research co-funded by ELSA. Using a host-parasite model system, [Continue reading»]
March 26, 2018 3:45: pm | by Sarah Clarke
Congratulations to our new Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Laura Lehtovirta-Morley who has just secured funding from the Royal Society for funding of two projects entitled “Crosstalk between global biogeochemical cycles and its impact on climate change” and “Resolving a missing biochemical link in the global nitrogen cycle”. These exciting new projects will involve use of [Continue reading»]
March 6, 2018 9:59: am | by Sarah Clarke
How do the vertebrate immune genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) maintain such extraordinary levels of genetic polymorphisms? This question dates back from the 1970s, and one of the earliest hypotheses suggested a mechanism called “novel allele advantage”. Novel alleles of hosts from distant populations are thought to be better at recognising parasites because [Continue reading»]
February 6, 2018 11:18: am | by Sarah Clarke
The third annual Stakeholders meeting centred round a Norwich Research Park (NRP) led project to investigate the biology and ecology of the golden alga Prymnesium parvum was held at the John Innes Centre in January 2018. This meeting brought together scientists from across the NRP and stakeholders with interests in the problems of harmful algal [Continue reading»]
February 1, 2018 3:04: pm | by Sarah Clarke
ELSA PhD students scoop up three of the four prizes on offer for the best talks at the Annual Molecular Microbial Ecology Group (MMEG) meeting held at the University of Warwick in December 2017. The MMEG is an annual meeting of early career researchers in microbial ecology run over two days and provides the opportunity [Continue reading»]
November 7, 2017 11:17: am | by Matthew Hills
New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, and Dalhousie University, Canada, reveals how immune systems can evolve resistance to parasites.
November 7, 2017 11:08: am | by Matthew Hills
NRP based biotech company, Iceni Diagnostics, which is a spin-out from John Innes Centre and University of East Anglia has won a prestigious award that celebrates the best businesses in the region.
November 1, 2017 2:38: pm | by Matthew Hills
A research collaboration has discovered a new way of rapidly generating a swathe of medically significant natural products after discovering a ground-breaking technique that turns the marathon of evolution into a sprint.
September 1, 2017 1:32: pm | by Matthew Hills
Millions of fish-deaths caused by toxic Prymnesium algal blooms could be prevented with the application of a household chemical best known for bleaching hair, breakthrough research has revealed.
August 21, 2017 12:47: pm | by Matthew Hills
Dr Laura Lehtovirta-Morley who has been recently awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Royal Society Fellowship joins us from the University of Aberdeen and brings new expertise on Archaea to the Norwich Research Park. She is based in the School of Biological Sciences at UEA and now shares the ELSA lab with Colin Murrell, Jenny Pratscher and [Continue reading»]
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