The Lymphocyte Signalling & Development ISP - Skills Training

The Lymphocyte Signalling & Development ISP aims to have a cohort of 8-12 students studying for their PhD in groups supported by one or more postdocs. Recent highlight achievements by our students have been selection to talk at the European Network of Immunology Insitute’s summer course in Sardinia. Two students and one postdoc have also been selected to participate in the summer programme hosted and paid for by RIKEN in Japan. Hakim Yadi was selected to participate in the University of Cambridge’s Rising Stars programme in 2008 - a course in public engagement and educational outreach for undergraduates, postgraduates, post-docs and early career academics. Hakim also developed business development and commercialisation skills, participating in the BBSRC BiotechYES business plan competition in 2008 and encouraging other students at the campus to take part in subsequent years.

The Lymphocyte Signalling & Development ISP Group Leaders have also supported the training of six Master’s students from Italy, selected through the Da Vinci UniPharma Graduates Project since the partnership with the University of Rome began in 2006. The scheme provides 6 month’s training and several of these students have continued with further degrees either at Babraham or in Italy.
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Undergraduates and 6th formers, supported by organisations such as the Nuffield Foundation, Biochemical Society, Genetics Society, BBSRC and AMGEN, have been selected to undertake summer research projects of between 6 and 10 weeks in the Institute’s research laboratories. In addition to the skills training provided to the bursary holder, those supervising in the hosting laboratories have gained valuable training and mentoring experience.

 

Key publications from the laboratory

Translating the Laboratory's Research into Action (KEC)

Public Engagement

Skills training