December 2024

The C21 Labs enjoyed a Christmas meal and white elephant gift exchange at the Norfolk Arms in Ringinglow.

🎄Happy Holidays!🎄

November 2024

Haseeb and Tanya both presented talks at the one-day BSDB Autumn Meeting Mechanisms of Septation Tissue Fusion in Development and Disease at King's College London, organised by Joe Rainger and Jeremy Green.

Haseeb also presented a talk of his computational image analysis work at the Royal Microscopy Society Meeting Frontiers in Bioimaging, held in Oxford.

Nick attended the PicoQuant 20th International Course Principles and Applications of Time-resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Berlin, Germany.

Nicole presented a poster of her summer research project, supervised by Haseeb, at the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Showcase at The Octagon.  The Showcase is an annual exhibition and celebration of all the research completed by SURE students over the previous summer.

Tanya visited the Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, as external examiner for Gemma Sutton, who defended an excellent PhD thesis.  The following day Tanya gave a seminar, hosted by Professor Steffen Scholpp, and spent the day discussing science with friends and colleagues.

Tanya, Sarah and Nahal ran a successful MSc practical, teaching students how to design and microinject CRISPR reagents into zebrafish embryos, and analyse the results by PCR and restriction digest.

October 2024

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.

July 2024

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!

June 2024

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:

May 2024

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.

April 2024

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. 

Team C21 taking part in the School of Biosciences pub quiz!

March 2024

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.

Aaron attended a two-day Adhern' Rise COST Action training school on visualisation and analysis of protein structures at the University of Oxford, where he gave a flash talk on his PhD work.  

February 2024

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:

Tanya also visited the lab of Ines Liebscher at the University of Leipzig to discuss work on Adhesion GPCRs.

January 2024

 Happy New Year!

Tanya presented a poster of the lab's work at the 10th Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators, held at the Asilomar Conference Centre, Pacific Grove, California.  She then travelled north to Seattle to visit labs at the University of Washington, and gave a seminar to the Fish Club there.  Many thanks to Dave Raible and his lab members for hosting!

A cold but sunny day on the University of Washington campus, with Mount Rainier fully out of the clouds in the distance

December 2023

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The C21 labs celebrated the festive season with a pub lunch and White Elephant gift exchange.  

Happy Holidays!

November 2023

The lab took part in BioFest 2023, a 3-evening public engagement event and celebration of research in the Biosciences at Sheffield.  We displayed images and videos of our research, ran quizzes, and got everyone drawing a giant image of the inner ear!

Nick and Haseeb attended the Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium and napari training workshop, held at the Francis Crick Institute, London.

Tanya attended the Stem Cell Fate Choice: Mechanisms and Modelling meeting at the University of Bath.