Nahal presented a poster of her PhD work at the 17th Zebrafish Disease Models Conference (ZDM17) in Lisbon, Portugal. Nahal's attendance at the conference was funded by a Company of Biologists Travel Grant. The poster generated lots of discussion and was a great catalyst to meet with other PhD students using similar techniques in their work.
Many congratulations to Dr King Yee Cheung and Dr Ana Almeida Jones, who both graduated for their PhD degrees on 18th July. It was lovely to meet family members!
A warm welcome to Nicole Read, who joins us for a Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) project, supervised by Haseeb. Nicole is currently studying on the Integrated Masters in Biomedical Science (MBiomedSci) programme.
We also welcome King Yee Cheung back to the lab to complete some experiments on olfactory rod cells over the summer.
Haseeb attended a two-day imaging conference ‘Imaging across scales - from Molecules to Humans’ in Southampton. His abstract was selected for a talk, which went very well, and generated lots of positive feedback.
Sarah and Nahal attended the one-day Neuroscience Institute symposium here at the University of Sheffield.
Tanya attended a very interesting and informative two-day meeting for researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust in Birmingham.
Later in the month, Tanya also visited the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA, hosted by Dr Sergei Sokol, Professor in the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology. Tanya gave a seminar and had a packed day of discussions meeting staff, postdocs and students, followed by a delicious dinner with Sergei and Dr Chih-Wen Chu:
We enjoyed excellent guest seminars from Dr Jody Rosenblatt, Professor of Cell Biology at King's College London, and Dr Zoë Mann, Lecturer in Cell Biology, also at King's.
Tanya met up in London with Dr Kristen Kwan, Associate Professor at the University of Utah, USA, who was visiting for a conference. Kristen works on eye morphogenesis, which has many parallels with the developing inner ear.
Aaron presented a poster of his PhD project work at the BSDB/Genetics Society joint spring meeting 'Developmental Genetics' at the University of Warwick.
Nick and Ethan attended the one-day meeting 'Light-sheet in Action: structural and dynamic microscopy from cells to animals' at the Crick Institute, London.
Sarah gave a talk on her research project on the role of Bmper in development of the zebrafish embryo at the School of Biosciences 'Building Tissues' seminar series.
Tanya gave a talk 'Adgrg6 in the zebrafish: development, disease modelling and drug discovery' at the final meeting of the Adhern' Rise COST Action on Adhesion GPCRs, held at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague), in Prague, Czechia. Many thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to speak and for an excellent meeting.
Tanya also gave a seminar at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (PDN) at the University of Cambridge, hosted by Professor Clare Baker, and spent a very enjoyable day there discussing epithelial cell dynamics with members of staff, postdocs and students.
Ethan has been making great strides in building a light-sheet fluorescence microscope over in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The microscope is now ready to start imaging zebrafish embryos. Ethan presented a poster of his PhD project work at the Focus in Microscopy (FOM2024) meeting in Genoa, Italy.
Ethan, Sarah, Ashley and Tanya visited the the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, to see automated zebrafish embryo sorting robots in action, and Tanya gave a seminar on the lab's drug discovery and ototoxicity work. Many thanks to Stefan Scholz and Riccardo Massei for hosting us! We had a very enjoyable visit, and made sure to include time to sample coffee and cakes in town:
