December 2015

The lab enjoyed a muddy walk and Christmas lunch by the fire at Strines Inn.

Sarah Baxendale gave an excellent talk at the BMS Christmas Symposium.

Ryan Hartwell presented a poster and gave a flash presentation at the White Rose DTP symposium, University of Leeds.

Davide Baldera presented a poster at the Anatomical Society Winter Meeting, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

Tanya gave a talk, and Sarah presented a poster, at the opening of the BBSRC Zebrafish Screening Facility, University of Edinburgh.  See a report of the meeting here.

November 2015

Congratulations to Davide Baldera, who was awarded a Distinction for his MSc!

October 2015

Sarah has presented a poster on her research at the "Seeing is Believing - Imaging the Processes of Life" meeting at the EMBL, Heidelberg.

Welcome to JP Ashton, who is working as a technician in the Bateson Centre Zebrafish Small Molecule Screening Facility.

Welcome to JinHeng Cameron Lin and Jack McMurray, who are undertaking their Level 3 research projects in the lab this semester.

September 2015

Welcome to Davide Baldera, who has joined the lab as a PhD student, funded by the Anatomical Society.

Rachael presented her work on the zebrafish vestibular system at BAPO 2015 in Belfast.

Congratulations to Iman, who has completed her MSc in Molecular Medicine.

The website for the 3^rd International Lightsheet Microscopy Conference, Sheffield, Aug 31^st-Sept 3^rd 2016, is now up and running: www.lsfm2016.org.  Save the date!

August 2015

Goodbye and good luck to Iman and Alice! They have now finished their projects in the lab.

Welcome back to Ryan, who has successfully completed his internship in London.

July 2015

Tanya presented our placode patterning work at the Gordon Research Conference on Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes, Bentley University, Waltham, USA.

Nick and Tanya attended the 2^nd International Lightsheet Conference, Genoa, Italy.  Tanya presented a talk on our semicircular canal imaging work.

Elvira gave an excellent talk at the departmental First Year Postgraduate Symposium.

June 2015

Welcome to Fanbo Kong, who has joined the lab as a SURE summer project student.

May 2015

Ryan began a 3-month Professional Internship for PhD Students (PIPS) at Imperial Innovations, London.

April 2015

Welcome to Sarah Burbridge, who has joined the lab as a Research Technician.

The Zeiss Lightsheet Z.1 microscope has arrived!

March 2015

Welcome to Iman Almohammed, who has joined the lab as an MSc project student.

February 2015

Welcome to Nick van Hateren, who has joined the lab and the Light Microscopy Facility as Lightsheet Microscope Manager.

Tanya gave a plenary talk at the ARO Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.

January 2015

Tanya presented our semicircular canal imaging work at the 6^th Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators, Asilomar, CA, USA.

Georgina’s paper on otolith tethering was accepted for publication in Development.  We wish her well as she starts work as a postdoc in Sarah Woolner’s lab in Manchester.