Friday night Skeletal Research Group (SRG) celebrations, celebrating Rachel Pearson (Pirog lab) and Adam Duxfield (Briggs lab) finishing lab work and getting ready to write up their PhD theses. Time flies when you’re having fun!
Happy PostDoc Appreciation Week
A big thank you to our PostDoc Francesca Johnson de Sousa Brito for all her hard work and help with all our projects!
You are a star, and we are very grateful for all your expertise, help and support.
Summer work experience visits
We hosted summer work experience students at the Centre for Life over the past two weeks, together with Diaz-Manera, Elliot, Munkley, and Veltman labs. It was really good fun, and great to see so much enthusiasm for science!
Thank you to all the labs for hosting the students, we hope you enjoyed it too.
Welcome Roufaida and Anna!
The lab has grown again, so we went to Beamish for a nice day out to get to know each other, and to celebrate. Welcome to our new PhD students, Anna and Roufaida!
We hope you enjoy your studies with us.
Academic congregations 2023
We had a lovely time at the congregations this summer, with Briggs, Reynard and Young labs, celebrating PhD graduations of Helen Dietmar, Dan Hayman and Marjolein Burges. Well done guys, and good luck!
We had a great time at the CIMA/CMAR meeting in Birmingham
Congratulations to Jack Roberts from the SRG for the poster prize, and to Marc Farcasanu and Rachel Pearson for great poster presentations.
BSMB Early Career Researcher meeting, Manchester, 29th of June
Exciting news, the BSMB Early Career Researcher meeting is happening on the 29th of June 2023 in Manchester!
We are going, and presenting. Join us, it will be fun!
Register here: https://bsmb.ac.uk/meetings/bsmb-ecr-event-manchester-2023/…
Official kick-off of the Horizon Europe CHANGE project
We are back from the official kick-off meeting of the CHANGE MSCA Horizon Europe (https://www.change-msca.eu/) consortium in Pavia. It was great to see old friends and colleagues and make new links and friendships. Lots of exciting science and collaboration ahead and a cohort of amazing and very motivated doctoral candidates. Looking forward to great 3 years ahead, researching cellular homeostasis and ageing in connective tissue disease!
Making friends at the Cartilage GRC
We’re back from the wonderful Cartilage Gordon Research Conference, and absolutely buzzing! Great friends old and new, and amazing science. It was so nice to be able to attend a conference ion person again, and to see everyone. Thank you Frank Zaucke and Farsh Guilak for organising a great meeting!
Thank you to the Tilly Hale Awards!
Today we were looking back at the 7 years of Genetics Matters and recording a little soundbite to say thank you to the Tilly Hale Awards for continuing to support Genetics Matters over the years. It is a great event that brings together scientists, health care professionals, rare disease patients and members of the public, and raises awareness of rare disease research in Newcastle.
Here’s a collage of our event’s posters to date:
