CENTRE NEWS
Papers accepted
Whyte J, Ball SG, Shuttleworth CA, Brennan K, Kielty CM (2011) Density of bone marrow stromal cells regulates commitment to vascular lineages. Stem Cell Research (in press).
Prokop, A., Küppers-Munther, B., and Sánchez-Soriano, N. (2011) Using primary neuron cultures of Drosophila to analyse neuronal circuit formation and function. In "The making and un-making of neuronal circuits in Drosophila" (B. A. Hassan, Ed.). Springer Science + Business Media, New York
Papers published
Hardingham TE, (2010) Cell- and Tissue-based Approaches for Cartilage Repair. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals (ATLA): 38 Suppl 1, 35-39.
Susan H. Taylor, Sarah Al-Youha, Tom Van Agtmael, Yinhui Lu, Jason Wong, Duncan A. McGrouther, Karl E. Kadler.(2011). Tendon Is Covered by a Basement Membrane Epithelium That Is Required for Cell Retention and the Prevention of Adhesion Formation.PLoS One, in press. PLoS
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Public engagement
On 9th February Peter Bell led a session for BTEC students at the Manchester Museum, exploring some of the practical techniques and ethics surrounding genetic engineering. The activities were part of the Lifelabs program.
Ann Canfield attended a Careers Convention at The Queen’s School Chester on February 9th and chatted to Year 11 pupils and their parents about careers in Biological Sciences.
Public engagement - Manchester Museum
Last Friday 11th February saw the centre and The Manchester Museum host another successful 'CSI Matrix/Matrix has got Talent' A-Level Study day. Many thanks to Ray Boot-Handford, Louise Kung, Heather Davies and Holly Birchenough for running the practical session, 'CSI Matrix'. Feedback from very positive indeed so well done all!
In 'Matrix has got Talent', Ceri Harrop was beaten at her own game when rookies Andrew Gilmore and Natalia Sanchez-Soriano stole the show (and the majority of the votes!). Organiser, Douglas Dyer, came back from the brink the win the second round. Great fun was had by all, and thanks to Simon Clark for chairing the event.
We are now gearing up for 'The Body Experience' at The Manchester Museum on Sat March 19th in collaboration with other colleagues from FLS. So far we have Teams for lungs, eye, tendon, breast all confirmed and awaiting others. Please contact Ceri Harrop, Nasreen Akhtar or Simon Clark for more information. Volunteers required to help run stands on the day so please get involved if you can.
Other news
Sarah Al Youha
Sarah was a joint PhD student with Karl Kadler and Gus McGrouther, and she successfully defended her PhD viva last week. Prof. Michael Kjaer (Institute of Sports Medicine Bispebjerg Hospital,Copenhagen) was Sarah's external examiner. Sarah also passed her medical school finals in January. She is the first intercalating PhD medical student of the University. Congratulations to 'double doctor' Sarah!
Adam Byron spent two weeks working at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, in the lab of Professor Roman Zubarev, who is an expert in mass spectrometry.
The aim of Adam's visit was to learn a new approach to proteomic data analysis in order to advance his work on the proteomic analysis of adhesion signalling. His intensive visit to the lab was very useful as he generated a large amount of data on integrin adhesion complexes as well as becoming familiar with a new analytical technique. The visit was a result of a Career Development Award, which he received from the Faculty of Life Sciences.
