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.
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.
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.
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:
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!
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The C21 labs celebrated the festive season with a pub lunch and White Elephant gift exchange.
Happy Holidays!
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!
Tanya attended the Stem Cell Fate Choice: Mechanisms and Modelling meeting at the University of Bath.
