A warm welcome to Aaron Bailiff, who has joined the lab as a Research Technician. Aaron joins us after graduating with a First Class BSc (Hons) in Biology from Sheffield Hallam University, including a year-long placement working with Dr Heba Ismail at the University of Sheffield.
Saturday 5 November 2022
October 2022
Welcome to Xinmiao Li, who joins the lab for her MSc project this year.
We enjoyed seminars given by two visitors from Ferenc Müller's lab at the University of Birmingham:
Dr Haseeb Qureshi: 'Characterising nucleus and transcriptional dynamics in the early zebrafish embryo'
Dr Lucy Wheatley: 'Gene regulation in zebrafish- global mechanisms and lineage decisions'
Friday 16 September 2022
September 2022
Ana and Tanya attended the 20th International Conference of the International Society for Differentiation (ISD) in conjunction with the BSDB in Malta, where Ana gave an excellent talk and presented a poster, and Tanya chaired a session.
Conference dinner, La Vallette Hall, Mediterranean Conference Centre
Clockwise from the front left: Kim Dale, Nancy Papalopulu, Ben Simons, Nick Monk, Tanya Whitfield, Hilary Ashe, Steffen Scholpp, Paul Martin, Sally Lowell, Anna Philpott
July–August 2022
Congratulations to Anzar on his graduation!
Congratulations also to Nahal, who was selected as a Poster Prize Winner at the 17th IZFC for her poster “Adgrg6 variant analyses: from chemical screening in zebrafish to virtual screens and in vitro assays” (see entry for June 2022). As a poster prize winner, she receives a reward from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation.
Ana and Elvira's paper on chondroitin and heparan sulphate in the zebrafish ear is now published:
Tanya gave a talk on olfactory rod cells at the 6th Imaging Structure and Function of the Zebrafish Brain conference in Trondheim, Norway.
Friday 15 July 2022
June 2022
We enjoyed some excellent talks and posters at the Opening Symposium for the School of Biosciences. Ana and Nahal presented posters of their PhD work, and Sarah presented a poster with project highlights from the Sheffield Zebrafish Screening Facility. King Yee submitted two images to the Jarema Malicki image competition, and made it to the top 10 with her beautiful image of an adult zebrafish olfactory rosette.
King Yee, Nahal and Tanya attended the 17th International Zebrafish Conference in Montréal, where both Nahal and King Yee presented posters of their PhD work.
May 2022
Nahal, Sarah and Tanya attended the 10th Adhesion GCPR workshop, held at the Panum Institute, Copenhagen. Nahal presented a poster of her work on Adgrg6 variants and compound screening for modulators of Adgrg6 pathway activity. After the meeting, we enjoyed a boat trip to see the city!
Friday 1 April 2022
April 2022
Sarah and Tanya attended the EMBO workshop 'Long-distance cell-cell signalling in development and disease' at the Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, where Sarah presented a talk of her research project on BMP signalling and imaging in the developing zebrafish ear.
Tanya attended the BSDB/BSCB Joint Annual Spring Meeting at the University of Warwick, where it was great to catch up with friends and colleagues, including two lab alumni: Ryan Hartwell, who joined the meeting to talk to PhD students about his career in science policy, and Georgina Stooke-Vaughan, now working in the Verd lab at the University of Oxford.
The manuscript from a collaborative project with Benjamin Delprat's lab on models of Wolfram Syndrome is now published in Human Molecular Genetics:
March 2022
Tanya gave a talk at the International Developmental Mechanics online seminar series on morphogenesis of the semicircular canal ducts in the zebrafish ear. Many thanks to Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, Priti Agarwal and Lance Davidson for organising the seminars and for the invitation to speak.
We enjoyed a visit from Nicolas Daudet (UCL Ear Institute) and his talk on the patterning of sensory epithelia in the developing amniote ear, sponsored by the Biochemical Society.
Monday 10 January 2022
January 2022
Happy New Year!
We are sorry to say goodbye to Emily Glendenning, who is leaving us to take up a post at the Environment Agency. We wish her well in her new role!
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