November 2021

Many congratulations to Anzar on passing his PhD viva with minor corrections - and
thanks to examiners Richard Mead (Sheffield Medical School) and David Lyons (University of Edinburgh).  Anzar gave an excellent pre-viva talk in the morning and we all enjoyed a post-viva celebration in the afternoon!

Tanya and Nick attended the Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium 2021 online.

Congratulations to Tania Mendonca, Ana, Sarah and our collaborators in the Frangi group - Tania's image analysis paper is now published in PLoS Computational Biology:

October 2021

We welcome undergraduate students Barbora, Dimitra, Esther and Jinhee, who are joining us for their Level 3 Laboratory Research Projects this semester.

Nahal started a 6-month placement at Sosei Heptares, Granta Park, Cambridge, as part of her PhD project on the adhesion GPCR Adgrg6 (Gpr126).

Tanya, Sarah and Nahal gave a talk on the Adgrg6 drug screening project at the Neuroscience Institute Autumn Conference, University of Sheffield.

September 2021

Lab lunch for the first time in over a year!  

Congratulations to Anzar, who has submitted his PhD thesis.  We wish him well for his future career and new job at Sosei Heptares, Cambridge.

Nick led a discussion session on 'Sample Preparation and Experimental Set Ups for Pushing the Limits of Live Imaging' at the Zeiss Half Day Online Symposium 'Future Perspectives in Live Imaging'. ​

July 2021

Sarah gave an excellent short talk on the adhesion class GPCR Adgrg6 and the ongoing small molecule screening work in the lab at the BMS Research Away Day.  This was the last departmental event before the merger to form the School of Biosciences, which launches in September.

Anzar gave an excellent talk at the Adher'n Rise COST action meeting on Adhesion Class GPCRs.  The Adher'n Rise network promotes research on aGPCRs across Europe.

Many congratulations to our undergraduate research project student Rita Dapaah, who has graduated with a First Class degree and the Brian Clarke Prize for enhancing the learning experience of BMS undergraduates.

June 2021

Congratulations to King Yee for being selected as a poster finalist at the International Zebrafish Conference 2021.  King gave a virtual presentation of her poster from her quarantine room in Singapore!  She now starts her A*STAR 2-year placement in the Jesuthasan lab at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to continue her work on zebrafish olfactory rod cells.

Tanya has been elected to the International Zebrafish Society (IZFS) Board of Directors as European and Mediterranean Representative.

Our manuscript on the BMP regulator gene bmper is now on bioRxiv:

May 2021

Sarah took some great 360° pictures of the labs in Firth Court, including this one featuring Anzar working in the screening lab:

King Yee gave an excellent short talk at the Sheffield Graduate School Showcase on 20th May:

Tania Mendonca's manuscript on Origami, a 3D cell shape analysis tool, is now posted on bioRxiv:

April 2021

Huge congratulations to Ana on the arrival of baby Sofia!

Tanya was co-organiser for the BSDB/Genetics Society Joint Spring Meeting, which was held virtually and was a great success.  Sarah, King and Ana presented posters of their research projects.

Emma Kenyon's paper on a screen for otoprotectants is now published in JCI Insight:

March 2021

 Our review on the adhesion GPCR Adgrg6 is now published in genesis:

February 2021

 King's paper on zebrafish olfactory rod cells is now published in Frontiers in Physiology:

Tanya gave a virtual seminar at the NIH National Institute for Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD), hosted by Doris Wu.

January 2021

At the end of the month, lab members attended the virtual 33rd Head Group Meeting on Craniofacial and Neural Development, and enjoyed the Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture delivered by Robert Kelsh (University of Bath).

We exhibited work from the lab at the Jacalyn Duffin Health and Humanities Conference Sensations and the Sensational, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  Our images looked very fine on the walls of their virtual art gallery:

We also enjoyed excellent talks at the one-day North of England Developmental Biology Symposium 2021, organised by Marysia Placzek, Shane Herbert and Raman Das.