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!

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.

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 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!

Well done to Adam Duxfield for publishing the results of his first year of PhD, and to everyone for getting our next MRC project funded. Here’s to great science ahead!

We had a lovely Pirog/Briggs barbecue last week. It is so nice to be able to sit outside, play croquet and chat about life. A big thank you to Prof Mike Briggs for inviting us to his lovely Northumberland home!

In June the NC3Rs welcomed twenty of their PhD students to London for the annual summer school, which included peer networking, a flash poster session and some further useful online sessions. Here’s a picture of all the students, with our own Marc Farcasanu in the front row.