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

While we were in Malta, Sarah attended the 15th Conference of the Zebrafish Disease Models Society, which came to Sheffield this year, and was brilliantly organised by several of our colleagues.

July–August 2022

Congratulations to Anzar on his graduation!

Congratulations also to Nahal, who was selected as a Poster Prize Winner at the 17^th 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.