January 2020

Happy New Year!

We have been submitting abstracts for the upcoming BSDB/Genetics Society Joint Spring Meeting, Warwick, March 15th–18th 2020.

December 2019

Tanya's review on cilia in the developing zebrafish ear is now published in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B, part of a special issue on all things ciliary.  You can read the review here.

Ana presented a poster at the White Rose DTP symposium at the University of York, and arranged an end-of-year lab trip to the panto!

November 2019

We enjoyed a visit from Steven Farber (Carnegie Institute, Baltimore) who gave a fascinating seminar on his work on lipid metabolism in the zebrafish.

Sarah and Tanya visited Sosei Heptares, Cambridge, where Anzar has been working on placement for the past few months.  Both Sarah and Anzar gave excellent talks on their work:

Anzar also gave a talk at the Biochemical Society Meeting on Drug Repurposing in Birmingham.

October 2019

Many congratulations to Mar on the birth of Marta!

A warm welcome to:

• Emily Glendenning, who joins the lab as a Research Technician.  Emily was a former undergraduate student in the Animal and Plant Sciences Department, and has recently been working in the Psychology Department.
• King Yee Cheung, who has started in the lab as a PhD student, working on sensory cells in the zebrafish olfactory epithelium.  King Yee joins us after completing the MBiomedSci course in BMS and research projects in the Roehl lab.
• Lia Wilkinson and Holly Tinsley, who are undertaking their BMS Level 3 research projects in the lab.

It was also a busy month for meetings:

• Sarah presented a poster at the European Developmental Biology Congress in Alicante, Spain.
• Nick presented a poster at the EMBO/EMBL symposium 'Seeing is believing: imaging the molecular processes of life' at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
• Ana attended the Royal Society Discussion Meeting 'Contemporary Morphogenesis', held at the Royal Society in London, organised by four of our research 'rising stars' in Sheffield: Emily Noël, Natalia Bulgakova, Kyra Campbell and Alex Fletcher.
• Tanya gave a short talk at the launch of the Neuroscience Institute here in Sheffield.

September 2019

Tanya visited Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi's lab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, and heard about the lab's work on motile cilia in the zebrafish olfactory system.

August 2019

Sarah gave an excellent talk on her drug screening work at the EdinFishTech 2019 meeting held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.  Tanya also gave a talk on imaging work from the lab, and both presented posters.

We had fun imaging various transgenic lines in a demo session with a Nikon super-resolution spinning disk confocal.  Thanks to Darren Robinson and the staff at Nikon for arranging the visit.

Anzar started his 3-month research placement at the Cambridge R&D facility at Sosei Heptares, where he will be continuing work on compounds identified through our zebrafish drug screening work.

July 2019

Congratulations again to Elvira, who was awarded her PhD and has just started a new job as a Senior Scientist with Excellerate Bioscience in Nottingham.

We enjoyed a visit from Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.  Nathalie gave a fascinating seminar on her work on motile cilia in the zebrafish olfactory system and brain.

Tanya gave a seminar to the Neuroscience group in the School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, and had an enjoyable day of discussions with colleagues there.