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Category Archives: Musculoskeletal news
ECM architecture and signalling in health and disease – a free conference in May
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To register, please visit: http://matrixbiology2021.univ-lyon1.fr/en/register
Today we had the first meeting of our new Working Group
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We had a very enjoyable first meeting. Thank you very much to everyone for volunteering their time to work with us, it was great to meet you and we are looking forward to working with you over the next 3 years, developing outreach and educational materials and sharing our research journey.
If you are interested in participating but couldn’t attend today, the recording of the meeting is available to watch and you are more than welcome to joi us at our next session in June. If you’d like to watch the video or join the Working Group, please email katarzyna.pirog@ncl.ac.uk
Thank you.
A date for your diaries – Fishbone 18th June 2021
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Early bird registration for the BSMB Spring meeting ends tomorrow!
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Early bird registration for our Spring Meeting ends tomorrow! Don’t miss out https://bsmb.ac.uk/meetings/inflammation-fibrosis-resolution-and-matrix/
Lab Christmas quiz!
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Great festive fun, and a big thank you to Mike for writing it!
An opportunity to join our new Working Group
We are looking for members of the public who would like to be involved in a Working Group, and take part in lab meetings, provide a fresh perspective on the work performed in the laboratory, have an active voice in the decisions we take as to the direction of our research and help us deliver their teaching and public engagement activities related to musculoskeletal health and ageing that stem from our work.
For more details, please click here or email katarzyna.pirog@ncl.ac.uk
Thank you.
Christmas lab outing at Gibside
We had a lovely socially distanced evening at the”Ignite” installation at Gibside to celebrate (the end of) 2020 and for some Christmas cheer. Merry Christmas everyone!
Our PhD advert is now live!
To apply, please click: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/bi034.html
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This interdisciplinary project combines the expertise of two supervisors (a cartilage biologist and a tissue engineer) to develop a bioprinted mechanically responsive tissue engineered model of cartilage and generate a transcriptomic and proteomic profile of healthy cartilage ageing.
For more details of the project, please check: https://nc3rs.org.uk/investigating-biomechanical-responses-healthy-and-diseases-ageing-cartilage-tissue-engineering.
We are happy to annouce that we have received NC3Rs PhD funding!
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Details of the project can be found here: https://nc3rs.org.uk/investigating-biomechanical-responses-healthy-and-diseases-ageing-cartilage-tissue-engineering
The studentship will be advertised shortly, watch this space!