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February 22, 2012

The University of Aberdeen Fungal Group was awarded £5.1M to tackle fungal infections

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The University of Aberdeen Fungal Group has been a awarded a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award to lead a  UK collaboration to bring fungal ...
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October 02, 2011

Lay summary: Candida albicans in different host niches

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Iuliana Ene works in the Aberdeen Fungal Group at the University of Aberdeen. She and her supervisor, Prof. Alistair Brown, are i...
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September 30, 2011

Lay summary: Candida albicans and it's sweet tooth

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The FINSysB researchers are preparing for the final workshop and conference in Italy in the next two weeks. In today's post, Iryna Boho...
September 28, 2011

Lay summary: Clinical relevant stresses and the cell wall

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Another day, another lay summary. Today, Alice Sorgo, working at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In the group of Dr. Fr...
September 27, 2011

Lay summary: Zinc uptake in Candida albicans

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In our continuing coverage of our FINSysB film stars, today Dr. Francesco Citiulo.  He is working at the Hans-Knoell-Institute in Jena, G...
September 25, 2011

The flash game Pandemic 2 let's YOU be the infectious disease!

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To effectively fight any enemy, you have to understand it first. This is one of the most basic principles when you are trying to prevent in...
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July 26, 2011

Lay summary: Antifungal drug development

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As promised, this week it is Kate's turn to summarize her work. Kate is working with F2G Ltd. in Manchester to develop antifungal drugs ...
July 15, 2011

FINSysB video

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This week we have something very special for you. During our last workshops in Berlin and Jena a video for our public dissemination video wa...
June 15, 2011

Lay summary: Candida albicans and cells of the immune system

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Today's lay summary is about how the immune system is dealing with Candida albicans cells if they are encountered. Pedro Miramón is work...
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April 13, 2011

Lay summary: Wall proteins of Candida albicans

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Today will be the launch of a series of posts that will focus on the particular work of individual scientists of the FINSysB network . We a...
March 04, 2011

Databases: The Facebook of the Molecules involved in Life

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The objective of biomedical scientists is to discover new medicines to cure diseases and to be able to detect them with new techniques whi...
February 25, 2011

Scientific collaborations

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Science doesn't happen in a vaccum. Despite the fact that scientist are usually depicted as recluses that spend the majority of their da...
February 11, 2011

Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

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An interesting yet lively talk from TED - Paul Stamets believes that mushrooms can save our lives, restore our ecosystems and " terrafo...
January 31, 2011

Let's talk about Candida albicans!

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After starting this blog with a couple of posts about scientific concepts and a few ways to play with biological information let me tell...
January 16, 2011

Playing with DNA can be fun!

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Happy New Year to everyone and although it is a little late (I know, I know) I thought we start it with a play section again. I am sure ther...