Wednesday 8 May 2019

May 2019

Ana has started her 3-month PIPS (Professional Internships for PhD Students) placement at The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.  She has joined the Trust's Monitoring and Research team, and is posting updates of her work here.  A nice change from the lab, out of doors and enjoying the sunshine!


The final version of our otic axial patterning paper has now appeared in PLoS Genetics.  Congratulations to all the team, including our collaborators Nick Monk (SoMaS, Sheffield), and Sam England and Kate Lewis (Syracuse University, New York, USA).


Thursday 2 May 2019

April 2019

Tanya presented a poster of the lab's work at the BSDB/BSCB Joint Annual Spring Meeting in Warwick.

Tanya also took the poster to a Gordon Research Conference on Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes in Barga, Italy, where it was great to catch up with two other former members of the Wylie/Heasman lab - Clare Baker and Martín García-Castro!


Back in Sheffield, Anzar and Ana both gave excellent talks on their PhD projects in the Bateson Centre and Departmental Internal seminar series, respectively.

March 2019



A month for cilia meetings:

Tanya gave a talk on cilia in the zebrafish ear at a Theo Murphy international scientific meeting:
Unity and diversity of ciliary systems in locomotion and transportorganised by Professor Gáspár Jékely, Professor Raymond Goldstein FRS and Dr Kirsty Wan, held at the Royal Society's Chicheley Hall.


Sarah and Tanya also attended a meeting of the UK Cilia Network in Sheffield, held in remembrance of Jarema Malicki.


February 2019

Davide passed his viva subject to corrections - Many congratulations!

We say goodbye to both Davide and Elvira - we will miss your good company and discussions in the lab and wish you all the best for your future careers!



January 2019

We enjoyed an excellent day of talks at the North of England Developmental Biology Symposium at the University of Manchester.



Tanya presented work from the lab's adgrg6 mutant rescue screen at the 8th Strategic Conference for Zebrafish Investigators at Asilomar, CA, USA.  We have also posted a preprint of this work on bioRxiv: