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.

June 2019

Tanya attended the Genetics Society Centenary celebrations in Norwich.  Happy 100th Birthday to the Society!

We enjoyed a visit and excellent seminar from our collaborator Giselle Wiggin from Sosei Heptares, Cambridge.

Happy to report that the paper describing our drug screening project to identify compounds that can rescue defects in the zebrafish adgrg6 (gpr126) mutant is now out in eLife!  Congratulations to the whole team.  You can read the full paper here.

May 2019

Ana has started her 3-month PIPS (Professional Internships for PhD Students) placement at The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.  She has joined the Trust's Monitoring and Research team, and is posting updates of her work here.  A nice change from the lab, out of doors and enjoying the sunshine!

The final version of our otic axial patterning paper has now appeared in PLoS Genetics.  Congratulations to all the team, including our collaborators Nick Monk (SoMaS, Sheffield), and Sam England and Kate Lewis (Syracuse University, New York, USA).

April 2019

Tanya presented a poster of the lab's work at the BSDB/BSCB Joint Annual Spring Meeting in Warwick.

Tanya also took the poster to a Gordon Research Conference on Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes in Barga, Italy, where it was great to catch up with two other former members of the Wylie/Heasman lab - Clare Baker and Martín García-Castro!

Back in Sheffield, Anzar and Ana both gave excellent talks on their PhD projects in the Bateson Centre and Departmental Internal seminar series, respectively.

March 2019

A month for cilia meetings:

Tanya gave a talk on cilia in the zebrafish ear at a Theo Murphy international scientific meeting:
Unity and diversity of ciliary systems in locomotion and transport, organised by Professor Gáspár Jékely, Professor Raymond Goldstein FRS and Dr Kirsty Wan, held at the Royal Society's Chicheley Hall.

Sarah and Tanya also attended a meeting of the UK Cilia Network in Sheffield, held in remembrance of Jarema Malicki.