Wednesday 16 December 2015

December 2015

The lab enjoyed a muddy walk and Christmas lunch by the fire at Strines Inn.

Sarah Baxendale gave an excellent talk at the BMS Christmas Symposium.

Ryan Hartwell presented a poster and gave a flash presentation at the White Rose DTP symposium, University of Leeds.

Davide Baldera presented a poster at the Anatomical Society Winter Meeting, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

Tanya gave a talk, and Sarah presented a poster, at the opening of the BBSRC Zebrafish Screening Facility, University of Edinburgh.  See a report of the meeting here.


Sunday 15 November 2015

November 2015

Congratulations to Davide Baldera, who was awarded a Distinction for his MSc!

Wednesday 7 October 2015

October 2015

Sarah has presented a poster on her research at the "Seeing is Believing - Imaging the Processes of Life" meeting at the EMBL, Heidelberg.

Welcome to JP Ashton, who is working as a technician in the Bateson Centre Zebrafish Small Molecule Screening Facility.

Welcome to JinHeng Cameron Lin and Jack McMurray, who are undertaking their Level 3 research projects in the lab this semester.

Wednesday 9 September 2015

September 2015


Welcome to Davide Baldera, who has joined the lab as a PhD student, funded by the Anatomical Society.

Rachael presented her work on the zebrafish vestibular system at BAPO 2015 in Belfast.

Congratulations to Iman, who has completed her MSc in Molecular Medicine.

The website for the 3rd International Lightsheet Microscopy Conference, Sheffield, Aug 31st-Sept 3rd 2016, is now up and running: www.lsfm2016.org.  Save the date!

Monday 31 August 2015

August 2015


Goodbye and good luck to Iman and Alice! They have now finished their projects in the lab.

Welcome back to Ryan, who has successfully completed his internship in London.

Friday 31 July 2015

July 2015


Tanya presented our placode patterning work at the Gordon Research Conference on Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes, Bentley University, Waltham, USA.

Nick and Tanya attended the 2nd International Lightsheet Conference, Genoa, Italy.  Tanya presented a talk on our semicircular canal imaging work.

Elvira gave an excellent talk at the departmental First Year Postgraduate Symposium.

Tuesday 30 June 2015

June 2015


Welcome to Fanbo Kong, who has joined the lab as a SURE summer project student.

Sunday 31 May 2015

May 2015


Ryan began a 3-month Professional Internship for PhD Students (PIPS) at Imperial Innovations, London.

Thursday 30 April 2015

April 2015


Welcome to Sarah Burbridge, who has joined the lab as a Research Technician.

The Zeiss Lightsheet Z.1 microscope has arrived!

Tuesday 31 March 2015

March 2015


Welcome to Iman Almohammed, who has joined the lab as an MSc project student.

Saturday 28 February 2015

February 2015


Welcome to Nick van Hateren, who has joined the lab and the Light Microscopy Facility as Lightsheet Microscope Manager.

Tanya gave a plenary talk at the ARO Midwinter Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Saturday 31 January 2015

January 2015


Tanya presented our semicircular canal imaging work at the 6th Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators, Asilomar, CA, USA.

Georgina’s paper on otolith tethering was accepted for publication in Development.  We wish her well as she starts work as a postdoc in Sarah Woolner’s lab in Manchester.