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15th Annual Joint GenoMEL/BioGenoMEL/MELGEN Scientific Meeting 2018

From the 20th to the 22nd March 2018 the MELGEN Consortium joined forces with the GenoMEL and BioGenoMEL consortia to hold their annual scientific meeting, this year hosted by the University Hospital Essen in Germany. In contrast to last year’s sun and high temperatures, the start of this year’sRead More
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Networking – go on, introduce yourself, don’t be a stranger!

Imagine if you were a biologist and, First scenario: you walk into a room full of theoretical physicists talking about dark matter, gravitational waves etc. Second scenario: you walk into a room full of biologists discussing about CRISPR, chromatin organisation etc. From your perspective, in which of the twoRead More
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Multi-Omics: a Revolutionary Approach to Data Analysis

With the advent of advanced high-throughput technologies, researchers can now quantify the cellular changes at different molecular levels. Global examination of molecular levels comprises of analysing data integrated from multiple “omes” like genome, transcriptome, proteome, interactome, epigenome, metabolome, lipidome ,  and microbiome, referred to as Multi-omics. Multi-omics approach isRead More
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14th Annual Joint GenoMEL/BioGenoMEL/MELGEN Scientific Meeting 2017

From the 15th to the 17th May 2017, the MELGEN researchers, together with their group leaders, will be gathering in Camogli, Italy to attend the 14th annual scientific meeting of the GenoMEL, BioGenoMEL and MELGEN consortia. Founded in 1997, the GenoMEL consortium was formed by a number of melanomaRead More
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Leeds and Essen Researchers take part in Be Curious 2017

On the 25th March 2017 MELGEN’s researchers from Leeds and Essen joined forces with Cancer Research UK, the UKs leading cancer charity, and took part in Be Curious 2017 at Leeds University. Part of the annual Leeds Festival of Science, Be Curious is a day when the University ofRead More
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Leeds University welcomes ESRs

This year annual GenoMEL scientific meeting was held in Leeds, UK in April and 17 MELGEN Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) who are spread across Europe joined 60 other delegates to find out about the latest melanoma research. During the meeting PhD students presented their projects and preliminary data duringRead More
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MELGEN Complementary Training Course 14th-19th April 2016

From the 14-19th April 2016, all the MELGEN Early Stage Researchers will take part in a series of Complementary Skills training courses designed to develop their abilites in a number of key areas such as: developing their effectiveness as a researcher presenting to scientific and general audiences both orallyRead More