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From a postdoc: how could supervising a studentship benefit your professional development?
December 7, 2021
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of grants that enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during the summer vacation and provide early and mid-career scientists the opportunity to gain supervision experience. Over the next few months, we’ll be posting a series of blogs from members who were awarded Harry Smith Vacation Studentships in 2021.
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What makes a good grant application?
August 7, 2019
Knowing how to write a strong grant application can be difficult. Here, two of our grant reviewers Dr Douglas Browning from the University of Birmingham and Dr Sarah Maddocks from Cardiff Metropolitan University give their advice on what makes a good application.
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Spotlight on Grants: Eliminating plasmids for antibiotic resistance
May 17, 2017
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of Research Visit Grants that enable our members to work in another laboratory anywhere in the world. PhD student Alessandro Lazdins fom the University of Birmingham writes about his trip to Sydney earlier this year, to work on plasmids in mice.
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Spotlight on Grants: A search for prions in yeast
October 13, 2016
Each year, the Microbiology Society awards a number of grants that enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during the summer vacation. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting a series of articles from students who were awarded Harry Smith Vacation Studentships this summer. This week is Alister Brown, a third-year Biomedical Science student at the University of Kent.
