June 2021

Congratulations to King Yee for being selected as a poster finalist at the International Zebrafish Conference 2021.  King gave a virtual presentation of her poster from her quarantine room in Singapore!  She now starts her A*STAR 2-year placement in the Jesuthasan lab at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to continue her work on zebrafish olfactory rod cells.

Tanya has been elected to the International Zebrafish Society (IZFS) Board of Directors as European and Mediterranean Representative.

Our manuscript on the BMP regulator gene bmper is now on bioRxiv:

May 2021

Sarah took some great 360° pictures of the labs in Firth Court, including this one featuring Anzar working in the screening lab:

King Yee gave an excellent short talk at the Sheffield Graduate School Showcase on 20th May:

Tania Mendonca's manuscript on Origami, a 3D cell shape analysis tool, is now posted on bioRxiv:

April 2021

Huge congratulations to Ana on the arrival of baby Sofia!

Tanya was co-organiser for the BSDB/Genetics Society Joint Spring Meeting, which was held virtually and was a great success.  Sarah, King and Ana presented posters of their research projects.

Emma Kenyon's paper on a screen for otoprotectants is now published in JCI Insight:

March 2021

 Our review on the adhesion GPCR Adgrg6 is now published in genesis:

February 2021

 King's paper on zebrafish olfactory rod cells is now published in Frontiers in Physiology:

Tanya gave a virtual seminar at the NIH National Institute for Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD), hosted by Doris Wu.

January 2021

At the end of the month, lab members attended the virtual 33rd Head Group Meeting on Craniofacial and Neural Development, and enjoyed the Peter Thorogood Memorial Lecture delivered by Robert Kelsh (University of Bath).

We exhibited work from the lab at the Jacalyn Duffin Health and Humanities Conference Sensations and the Sensational, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  Our images looked very fine on the walls of their virtual art gallery:

We also enjoyed excellent talks at the one-day North of England Developmental Biology Symposium 2021, organised by Marysia Placzek, Shane Herbert and Raman Das.

December 2020

Ana and Anzar both gave excellent presentations of their work at the White Rose Mechanistic Biology DTP symposium.  Ana won second prize for her flash presentation.  Congratulations!

Congratulations also to King Yee, who won first prize for her excellent talk in the Departmental 1st Year Postgraduate Symposium!

We ended the year with a lab Christmas quiz: