…yes, the launch of our long-awaited blog!  Just in time for Christmas.

Okay, we officially kicked-off our first big project in May (Leverhulme Research Project Grant) so it’s taken us some time, but a lot has been happening!

After Marcelo arrived in May 2017 we established cultures of everybody’s favourite anemone, Aiptasia, with lots of help from the Guse Lab in Heidelberg – thank you Annika et al. 😉  Jess followed in September and the A-Team is now up to full strength.  We have an exciting 4 years ahead – so many opportunities, so little time.  It has taken a lot of hard work by Marcelo and myself to get us to this point…  I started investigating adhesion of sea anemones during a 2012 Visiting Professorship to St FX university in Nova Scotia.  Marcelo was simultaneously embarking on a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Innsbruck, studying adhesion of Hydra.  Our paths crossed at a COST Action bioadhesion meeting in Istanbul in 2014 and the rest is history!  Jess is new to all of this adhesion stuff, but she is already getting ‘stuck in’ (ha ha….).

Stay tuned for updates and exciting news from the worlds of anemones and bioadhesion,

Nick Aldred, Marcelo Rodriguez and Jess Clarke