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.