UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing

26/05/2022

The next London Evolutionary Research Network (LERN) seminar will likely be of interest to many of you.

"Circadian Cycles in Health, Disease and Therapy: A Tale of Timing" by Dr Oliva Jacqueline Liszeth, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The seminar will be online on 31st May at 3pm and is open to all. Zoom link: https://ucl.zoom.us/i/96299045047

16/05/2022

BRITISH YEAST GROUP 2022: FROM GENOMES TO CELLS
07 September 2022–09 September 2022, 9:00 am–7:00 pm

The programme will feature attractive, assorted talks from invited speakers and will provide plenty of opportunities for early career researchers to present their research through posters, flash and offered oral presentations. The meeting will include a varied social agenda to make new connections and strengthen the yeast community in Britain and beyond.

Book now: https://microbiologysociety.org/event/society-events-and-meetings/british-yeast-group-2022-from-genomes-to-cells.html -0

Key topics
DNA metabolism
Organelle and cell function
Cellular regulation and interactions
Chromosome function

Speakers
Benoît Kornmann (University of Oxford, UK)
Frank Uhlmann (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
Janet Quinn (Newcastle University, UK)
Johanne Murray (University of Sussex, UK)
Jon Houseley (The Babraham Institute, UK)
Pedro Carvalho (University of Oxford, UK)

Organising committee:
Jürg Bähler (University College London, UK)
Jacqueline Hayles (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)

The Microbiology Society is a membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and their practical uses.

27/04/2022

Applications for the Dunhill Medical Trust and IHA PhD program has been extended to Tuesday the 3rd of May at 5pm.

The UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing (IHA) is a centre of excellence for research on the biology of ageing and ageing-related diseases.

26/04/2022

UCL (GEE) and the London Business School are delighted to announce that we are hosting our annual flagship Clean Tech Challenge (CTC) in May 2022 and would love for you to participate! If you are interested in CleanTech start-ups and VCs, keen to meet other entrepreneurial students from global business schools and want to enter a global competition with the chance to win £10,000 sign up!
The CTC is a global innovation and business plan competition that serves as a launchpad for cleantech business ideas.
Chairs for the 2022 competition are Dr Carina Kern (UCL), Shivangi Kumra MBA candidate (LBS) and Cathy He MBA candidate (LBS).

The Challenge is open to all current university students (undergraduate and postgraduate) enrolled in a degree programme at a recognised Higher Education Institution anywhere in the world. Teams must consist of 2-5 people. The deadline to submit is an application to enter is 30 April 2022. For details, please visit:

The CleanTech Challenge is a global business plan competition for students with innovative clean technology ideas, jointly hosted by the London Business School and University College London. It began in 2011 and has been run successfully for the past 10 years. Winners of the international chapters c...

26/04/2022

A recent paper by David Gems and Carina Kern, in collaboration with the Bahler lab and Foukas lab, has been recommended in Faculty Opinions as being of special significance in its field for a second time.

Article: C. elegans feed yolk to their young in a form of primitive lactation., Nature Communications, 2021 (DOI: 10.3410/f.740943475.793591938).

You can read Dr Pokrzywa's recommendation here: https://facultyopinions.com/prime/740943475?

Faculty Opinions

19/04/2022

Find out more about the Dunhill Medical Trust and IHA PhD program at our webpage below.
Closing date for applications is the 29th of April.

The Dunhill Medical Trust has partnered with the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing (IHA) to train the next generation of ageing researchers. The goals of the Dunhill Medical Trust and the IHA are to inspire and enable multidisciplinary research aimed at improving the quality of life, functional capaci...

11/04/2022

We are taking applications for three PhDs available across all the groups at the IHA. This amazing opportunity is in collaboration with the Dunhill Medical Trust. For details please see the link below.
Closing date: 29th April 2022

PhD Project - University College London Institute of Healthy Ageing - Dunhill Medical Trust PhD Studentship at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

25/02/2022

A new position for a Lecturer/ Associate Professor in Computational Genomics is open for applications. We are seeking an outstanding researcher, with a strong track record of well-funded, excellent research & the potential to make substantial contributions to their fields of study.

The applicants’ research interests may include, but are not restricted to, human genomics, genomics of complex diseases, evolutionary and comparative genomics, systems-level processes and modelling, AI and big data, and/or microbial genomics.

Closing date is the 23rd of March 2022.
Enquiries about the application process can be directed to [email protected].

26/01/2022

Hot off the press from Alic and Kuchenbaecker labs: Genetics implicate protein synthetic machinery in human longevity. https://tinyurl.com/2p9x6mdp
Great collaborative effort from Sara Javidnia, Karoline Kuchenbäcker, Stephen Cranwell, Jennifer Tullet, Colin Selman, Stefanie H. Mueller and Nazif Alic

With data from Joris Deelen and GTExPortal,
thanks to BBSRC, Wellcome Trust and Persia Ed Foundation.

An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms

18/01/2022

Applications for a Research Technician position are currently open. We are looking for a Research Technician to provide technical, administrative and research support to several groups in the Department. In particular, the role holder will be involved in managing the laboratory and running the Drosophila media preparation facility, including preparing media, managing demand, processing waste and ordering consumables.
Further details can be found at the link below.
Closing date: 04/02/2022
https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTg3OTE1MSZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJmpvYl9yZWZfY29kZT0xODc5MTUxJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQ=

17/01/2022

A new review from David Gems entitled 'The hyperfunction theory: An emerging paradigm for the biology of aging'.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101557

13/01/2022

New Publication from the Bähler Lab, 'Functional profiling of long intergenic non-coding RNAs in fission yeast'.

Phenomics assays in yeast cells reveal hundreds of mutant phenotypes for long non-coding RNAs grown in specific environmental or physiological contexts, indicating that most of these RNAs exert cellular functions under certain conditions.

10.7554/eLife.76000