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Congratulations to Dr Rachael

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:30:00 GMT

Congratulations to Dr. Rachael for passing her PhD viva 30 Jan 2026. Rachael has been in or around the lab since her undergraduate days. First as a summer student in 2019 to now finish her PhD in the MRC DTP in IBR and already working on the next steps in her career as producer at the Naked Scientist.

Thanks to Mark Wall and Carlos Escudero for examining Rachael.

Congrats to Dr Pragya!

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:38:00 GMT

As they say, with flying colours, Pragya passed her viva.

Pragya's work was together with Peter Sadler (Chemistry) and myself and was funded by a WIF scholarship in collaboration with Anglo American Thanks to Claudia Blindauer and Luca Salassa for viva-ing Pragya.

New paper of Sreshtha Nayek on characterisation of Ruthenium-DMSO complexes

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:32:51 GMT

It's that time of year again: The Winter Blues, a SAD story

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:17:14 GMT

But if you want to hear something on how what to do against low mood in the fall and winter, and also be depressed because of new monkey pox and leaks in Chernobyl, then head over to the Naked Scientist.

Morning Immunochemotherapy in Cancer better once more, now in SCLC

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:22:51 GMT

Robert and Seline have commented on a new paper in the journal Cancer on chronoimmunochemotherapy in patients with small cell lung cancer showing a beneficial effect of early immunotherapy in this disease (Huang et al. doi: 10.1002/cncr.70126) in an article in New Scientist this week.

Rachael's first outputs as a naked scientist: Cool science, accessibly presented

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:08:20 GMT

Want to learn something about moss in space or seagulls knowing you are shouting at them? Read Rachael's articles on how moss and seagulls.

Time to test for late clocks for early detection of gestational diabetes mellitus

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:05:03 GMT

Dr Robert Dallmann and Prof Ponnusamy Saravanan receive funding from the Gates Foundation for a project entitled "Molecular circadian biomarkers for early prediction of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)”

The aim of the project is to establish if circadian biomarkers can contribute to GDM risk-stratification in biosamples taken in early pregnancy. For this, we take advantage of a subsample of the well phenotyped PRiDE study, which included pregnant women from diverse ethnic backgrounds with and without GDM and, crucially, the associated clinical history. We will test their plasma, biobanked at George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton, in a to be established bioassay using human fibroblasts and the TimeTeller algorithm as "circadian sensors”. Furthermore, once stratified by circadian phenotype, we aim to discover further correlative biomarkers that will allow to establish simple bioassays that will be easily available in LMICs, also a key aim of the foundation.

The project brings together the expertise of ��TV’s Chrono group, including the WMS based Dallmann lab and Rand’s group in Maths, as well as the WMS’ Saravanan who is also a clinically active Diabetes and Endocrinology specialist at George Eliot Hospital.

Science on the Hill: Come see how ��TV tackles cancer with science

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:06:04 GMT

Free tickets for an evening on 11 November with talks and lots of time for engagement and discussion with chemists, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists. Light refreshments are available.

Hear how mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists improve diagnosis and our understanding of cancer, how chemists take inspiration from fungi and bacteria to develop new anti-cancer drugs or design delivery vehicles that target immune cells, and physicists employ diamonds to look skin deep for cancer cells.

Whether you're curious about the equations that can guide diagnosis and improve therapy decisions or how magnets can help surgeons find cancer cells, this evening promises to inform and inspire.

Doors open at 5:30pm and light refreshments will be provided. Talks begin at 6:00pm.

Please note the recommended age for this event is 14+ and all under-18s must be accompanied by an adult.

Chrono Lab goes LEAF

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:05:00 GMT

Thanks to the leadership of James Jarrold, the lab has achieved a LEAF Bronze Award.

CIRCADIAN DISTRIBUTION OF VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS IN PATIENTS WITH STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE AND THE IMPACT OF INVASIVE CATHETER ABLATION ON TIMINGS

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:30:15 GMT

As result of a reward collaboration between Tarv Dhanjal and the Chrono Group, SSC2 student Jawad Chowdhury is presenting his work on the timing of ventricular arrhythmias in heart disease patients at the Heart Rhythm Congress 2025 (05-07 October) in The International Convention Centre, Birmingham.