Congratulations to Alex who is moving on to pastures new in a research and development role at Cotton Mouton Diagnostics. CMD are an exciting South Wales-based startup developing point of care diagnostic technologies.

Congratulations to Alex Morgan for securing a CSBI travel and training award to visit The Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO) at the University of Trento, initiating our collaborative work with Dr Martin Hanczyc.

You can watch Martin’s TED talk where he discusses the line between life and not-life

Special thanks to Martin for hosting us. Trento’s a fabulous place and what a location for a lab! We look forward to Martin’s return visit to Cardiff.

Warm welcome to fourth year MPharm students Lydia and James who join the lab for their final year research projects.

Our collaborative paper with Mark Wallace and Hagan Bayley at The University of Oxford, showcasing the use of nanopore arrays for high-throughput optical sensing of nucleic acids, has been published in Nature Nanotechnology.

Special congratulations to Shuo Huang who now takes up a professorial position at Nanjing University, following publication of this work.

Congratulations to PhD student Divesh Baxani for his prize winning poster at postgraduate research day.