On the 27th September we had a lovely visit from Prof Anders Aspberg from Lund University and Dr Evalena Stattin from University of Uppsala to discuss the aggrecan project and Beth Gibson’s visit to Sweden to perform mass spectrometry and uCT analyses.
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Amazing SYBIL respresentation at the International Skeletal Dysplasia (ISDS) meeting 2-23rd September 2017 in Bruges
A lovely lab day out on Hadrian’s Wall
RUBICON mid term review
We’re back from the RUBICON network mid term review.
Lots of exciting science and networking opportunities, it’s great to be part of the larger scientific family!
Beth Gibson wins a presentation prize at the GRS!
Our PhD student, Beth Gibson, won a presentation prize at the Gordon’s Research Seminar, a prestigeous conference for young investigators in musculoskeletal research. There were 21 presenters this year (graduate students and postdocs). The programme of the conference can be found here.
Well done Beth!
Musculoskeletal research in the pub!
Newcastle musculoskeletal research at the GRC Cartilage
Beth Gibson (3rd year PhD student from our lab) will be presenting a poster at the GRC Cartilage this year and delivering a short talk on her project analysing two mouse models of novel aggrecan mutations at the GRS the day before. We hope you can make it!
Cartilage Vol2 – Pathophysiology
Great collaborative meeting in Newcastle today!
Discussing ER stress, disease mechanisms and potential therapeutic interventions – with Prof John Bateman (Murdoch Children’s Research institute, Melbourne), Prof Michael Briggs (Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University), Prof John Loughlin (IGM, Newcastle), Prof David Young (IGM, Newcastle), Dr Tom van Agtmael (University of Glasgow), Dr Louise Reynard (IGM, Newcastle) and Dr Katarzyna Pirog (IGM, Newcastle).