April 2018

Many congratulations to Sarah Burbridge on the birth of Esme!

We had fun trying out the new Virtual Reality system from Arivis for viewing our light-sheet microscopy data.

Anzar gave an excellent seminar at Heptares Therapeutics, Welwyn Garden City.  Anzar will be joining Heptares for a placement later in his PhD.

Tanya was elected as a Committee Member of the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) at the BSDB's 70th anniversary meeting in Warwick.  Impressions of the meeting (historical, musical and scientific) by Andreas Prokop can be found here.

Davide gave a flash presentation of his PhD project work at the Krebs Institute Imaging Symposium.

March 2018

A warm welcome to Mar Marzo, who will be working as a Research Technician in the lab while Sarah Burbridge is on leave.

Tanya gave a talk, and Ana and Anzar presented posters, at the 2nd International FishMed Conference on Zebrafish Research in Warsaw, Poland.  Excellent science and tasty food too!

February 2018

Tanya gave a talk at the GRC meeting on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration, near Lucca, Italy.

Suraj and Ioannis gave very good talks on their Level 3 research projects, with some lovely light-sheet movies of developing ears.

December 2017

The Whitfield and Noel labs enjoyed a festive meal and white elephant gift swap to end the year:

Emma Kenyon's paper on screening for otoprotectants (collaboration with Sarah Baxendale and SZSU) is now out at JCI Insight.

Davide gave an excellent talk at the Anatomical Society Winter Meeting in Dundee.

Ana, Anzar, Sarah Baxendale and Tanya attended the BBSRC White Rose DTP symposium at the University of York.  It was nice to catch up with Betsy Pownall and Harv Isaacs!

Welcome to Tania Mendonca, who joins the Frangi team (CISTIB, Faculty of Engineering) to help with analysis of our light-sheet microscopy data.

We enjoyed a visit and seminar on damage and repair in the vestibular system from Jordi Llorens (Universitat de Barcelona).

November 2017

Welcome to Suraj Patel and Ioannis Paschalidis, who are undertaking their final year undergraduate projects in the lab.

Tanya visited the Kelsh group and gave a talk at the University of Bath.

October 2017

Nick van Hateren presented a poster at the EMBO symposium 'Seeing is believing: Imaging the Processes of Life' at EMBL, Heidelberg.

Welcome to Ana Almeida and Anzar Asad, who are starting their PhDs in the lab!

September 2017

Tanya gave a talk at the School of Biosciences, Prifysgol Caerdydd (Cardiff University). 

All members of the Whitfield lab presented work at the Bateson Centre Symposium in Lifecourse Biology here in Sheffield.  We enjoyed superb talks on all aspects of the Lifecourse theme.  The meeting was also a celebration of 20 years of Developmental Biology in Sheffield.  Full details on Twitter: #Lifecoursebiology