It has been a busy few months here at SP and we thought we’d post this newsletter of sorts. Here’s what we’ve been up to:
Since January, we’ve been working on researching and designing 10 new Challenge Prizes. We’ll post a few more details about this project when we can make it more public. This has been keeping Ana very busy for most of the year so far. Thankfully we’ve had the support of two fantastic researchers. The first, Matteo Farinella, was with us for phase one of the project and we are continuing to work with Matteo in his capacity as an awesome illustrator. For phase two, we are very happy to have Chloe Ambery on board, an almost-graduate from Imperial College’s Science Communications MA programme.
Marek has been spending quite a bit of time on Sequence Bundles, working with Joe Lau to get a web-enabled version of the visualisation tool online. Marek (with James K) also hosted the industry panel at the BioJS conference where we met a great community of people who are collaborating to make the next generation of bioinformatics tools.
Still thinking about great speakers at #biojs15 meeting—thanks @GenomeAnalysis @repositiveio @BiojsLibrary @yannick__ pic.twitter.com/zDjYYItIGT
— Science Practice (@sciencepractice) July 14, 2015Tempest has been working on an internal project to explore the potential of low-tech microfluidics for diagnostic applications and we’ve been having a lot of interesting discussions with a variety of researchers and companies. Tempest gave a talk about this project at a recent TEDx event.
James G has also donned the cheek microphone for a talk he gave about Science Practice at a recent event organised by the Knowledge Transfer Network.
.@James_Godwin_ @sciencepractice talks about citizen science + how citizens can help innovate @KTN_Creative #ND30yrs pic.twitter.com/gQClPHS6LS
— Dr. Mitra Memarzia (@mitra_m) July 3, 2015Lastly, we’ve been accepted onto Oxford Nanopore’s MinION Access Programme (MAP), which is enormously exciting. We are awaiting some essential supplies before we can fire-up the diminutive MinION sequencer, but we are looking forward to seeing what it can do first-hand. More soon!
