June 2023

Everyone admiring the beautiful imaging generated by Marvin and Isabella, with help from Nick van Hateren.  An anti-acetylated tubulin antibody stain (magenta) was used to highlight peripheral nerves in the head.

The C21 labs took advantage of the gorgeous weather and went for a woodland walk on the Chatsworth estate.

A warm welcome to Isabella Russell-Smith, who joins us for a 7-week undergraduate summer research project, funded by the Genetics Society.

Nahal gave an excellent talk on her project in the 3rd year PhD symposium for the School of Biosciences.

May 2023

A warm welcome to Marvin Mesbah, MSc student at the Sorbonne University, Paris, France, who joins us to do a summer internship in the lab.

Many thanks to Nahal for organising an evening meal at Jimmy's Kitchen for everyone in C21.

April 2023

Congratulations to Ana on passing her PhD viva! - and many thanks to Kyra Campbell (DRN, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield) and Paul Martin (University of Bristol) for examining. Nahal baked the delicious cake!

Haseeb and Tanya attended the very successful BSDB Spring focus meeting 'Cellular Plasticity in Morphogenesis' at The Edge, University of Sheffield, organised by DRN members Kyra Campbell and Anestis Tsakiridis, together with Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge). Tanya was busy as a session chair and poster judge, the final and very enjoyable tasks at the end of her 5-year term as an ordinary member of the BSDB Committee.

March 2023

Tanya enjoyed a visit to Steffen Scholpp's lab at the Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter.  

Tanya also gave a talk (Epithelial morphogenesis in the developing zebrafish inner ear), and King Yee gave a recorded flash talk (Olfactory rod cells: a putative mechanosensor in the zebrafish olfactory epithelium), at the Bateson Centre half-day Symposium.

 PhD project available!

Design, build and use of a light-sheet microscope for automated imaging of a zebrafish neurological disease model

For more information, click here:

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/design-build-and-use-of-a-light-sheet-microscope-for-automated-imaging-of-a-zebrafish-neurological-disease-model/?p156377

Closing date for applications: 5th April 2023

February 2023

Tanya gave a talk on the lab's work on the Adgrg6 signalling pathway at the Gordon Research Conference on Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes, Barga, Italy.

Nahal gave an excellent talk on her PhD project at the Neuroscience Institute one-day symposium:

Our paper describing identification of the insertion sites for two enhancer trap lines is now published in the Journal of Anatomy.  Congratulations to Davide, Sarah and Nick for the molecular detective work and beautiful imaging in this paper!

We enjoyed a pizza night out to welcome new lab members Haseeb Qureshi (Whitfield lab) and Corinna Snashall (Emily Noël's lab):

Below: Checking a sample on the Transmission Electron Microscope.  We are using this technique to examine the ultrastructure of cells in the developing ear, as part of Ana's PhD project on otic epithelial morphogenesis.

 

January 2023

Happy New Year!

A warm welcome to Dr Haseeb Qureshi, who joins us as a postdoc, after completing his PhD with Ferenc Müller (University of Birmingham) and Attila Sík (University of Pécs, Hungary).

December 2022

We enjoyed a wide range of talks on the theme of 'Omics technologies at an excellent one-day School-wide symposium, co-organised by Kyra Campbell and Stuart Campbell.

To end the year, Nahal organised a great meal out and Secret Santa for the C21 labs.  Choosing a present was a difficult task!

Nahal also captured this lovely picture of Firth Court in the snow:

Happy Holidays!