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Pre-pre-pre-announcement that around the end of the year/early spring we'll be announcing some new funded residencies, based at our new studio in Cornwall to run around Aug/Sept 2026.
The theme this time is moths and their viruses - as part of @b_longdon's research grant on how viruses and their hosts co-evolve and what the limitations are on which ones can infect/be infected by which other ones.
As usual it'll be open to folks from any background, and anything goes.
🦋 <- pretend it's a moth
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Do you know a Masters graduate looking for a #PhD opportunity? We have a PhD studentship opportunity with a short advertising period. Getting word out now.
The project will investigate aphid immunity. Lots learned since Gerardo 2010 (STING, protease cascades). Will use power of #Drosophila genetics to delve even deeper. Please get in touch here or by email if interested!
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2021: Viruscraft
A bizarrely timely pair of projects with virus researchers @b_longdon and Ben Ashby applying our techniques to making the invisible world of viruses more understandable.
This involved lots of workshops, visualisations, games - a giant virus interface in the Eden Project followed by a robot virus that evolves as you vaccinate a population of creatures to survive.
It's our 10th birthday today!
To celebrate, throughout the day we'll be picking one of our favourite projects from every year. Lovely looking back and seeing how hard it is to pick, because somehow we enjoyed almost all of them.
A big hat tip due to @FoAM - up to 2021 we were called FoAM Kernow, and it was the fabulous and eclectic FoAM gang that helped us get on our feet and made space for our hopes.
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