The day has come and we are now well settled in the brand new Discovery Centre. One of Mike Ferguson's many legacies to @DundeeUniv - new Discovery Centre opens #BalloonDrop pic.twitter.com/QB8aZF3zjJ— Gordon Simpson (@ggsimpsonrna) October 1, 2014 There were balloons, speeches and most importantly now I own a shiny new…
Together with a bunch of PhD students from the College of Life Sciences at University of Dundee I organized the PiCLS symposium 2014. My main task was to develop the website, which I did with wordpress. The event was a great success and featured several high profile scientists covering many…
Hello folks again! I have just passed successfully my transfer from postgraduate researcher to PhD candidate! So I am now officially a PhD candidate in Bioinformatics. Looking forward to do great work and publish loads of papers in the upcoming months. Stay tuned! …
Just submitted a paper to an undisclosed journal and the good news is that it has been also made available through a new preprints server for biology, bioRxiv that is. The paper is about a new approach of using coevolution data and constraint programming methods to improve protein-protein docking. If…
Great news! The work I have done as part of my first rotation with Prof. Carol MacKintosh and Dr. Michele Tinti, has been published in Database Journal. My part in this work was to help Michele improving on the prediction methods he had to predict 14-3-3-binding targets as well as…
I have enjoyed every minute of the last two days where me and my friends participated in the Biotechnology YES 2013 competition hosted in the Biocity venue in Glasgow. It was a great learning experience though very stressful as well. We literally didn’t sleep finishing our business plan and presentation…
I have spent some nice time over the last months rotating in 3 labs as part of the first year of my PhD programme in Dundee. I rotated in the labs of Prof. Carol MacKintosh, Prof. Geoff Barton and Prof. Ron Hay. Now it is time to move back to…