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Press release

Dave Thornton’s new paper on Muc5ac (see below) has been press released under the title Worm discovery could help one billion people worldwide, and is also covered in the week's Nature 'Research Highlights'

Papers published

Byron, A. (2011) Analyzing the anatomy of integrin adhesions. Sci. Signal. 4: jc3

Day, A.J., Clark, S.J. & Bishop, P.N. (2011). Understanding the molecular basis of AMD and how the identification of new mechanisms may aid the development of novel therapies. Expert Reviews in Ophthalmology 6, 123-128.

Hasnain, S.Z., Evans, C.M., Roy, M., Gallagher, A.L., Kindrachuk, K.N., Barron, L., Dickey, B.F., Wilson, M.S., Wynn, T.A., Grencis, R.K. and Thornton, D.J. (2011) Muc5ac: A critical component mediating the rejection of the eneteric nematode, Trichuris muris.J. Exp. Med.doi: 10.1084/jem.20102057

Rooney, N., Streuli, C.H. (2011). How integrins control mammary epithelial differentiation: a possible role for the ILK-PINCH-Parvin complex. FEBS Letters. In press.

Rousseau, K., Cardwell, J.M., Humphrey, E., Newton, R., Clegg, P. and Thornton, D.J(2011) Muc5ac and Muc5b are both increased in equine airway inflammation. PLoS ONE. In press.

Invited talks

Martin Humphries

Fibronectin, Integrins & Related Molecules Gordon Conference, Lucca, Italy, 3 May. Insights from mass spectrometric analyses of adhesion signalling.6 May

BSCB/BSDB, Kent University, 27-30 April. Proteomic profiling of integrin adhesion complexes

Asia Klementowicz

15th Annual Woods Hole Immunoparasitology Conference, MA, USA, 17-20 April. Lack of integrin-mediated TGFβ activation by dendritic cells results in protection from chronic gastrointestinal parasite infection.

Toby Starborg

Royal Microscopical Society meeting: TEM & TOM, Sheffield, 11-12 April. Examining cell-matrix interactions using multi-mag serial section electron tomography.

Poster presentations

Tiarnan Keenan

ARVO 2011: Visionary Genomics, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 1-5 May. Proteomic analysis of the human retina.

Rachel Lennon

Fibronectin, Integrins & Related Molecules Gordon Conference, Lucca, Italy, 1-5 May. Novel glomerular matrix proteins identified by mass spectometry based proteomics.

Tanja Torbica

BSDB/BSCB Joint Spring meeting, Canterbury, 27-30 March. Type XXVII Collagen has a role in the regulation of proliferation during lung morphogenesis

Other news

Ann Canfield

Examined a PhD thesis at The University of York, on 20 April. The thesis was entitled ‘Regulation of mesenchymal stem cell activity in an in vitro model of the stem cell niche’.

Ceri Harrop

Features in this month’s edition of The Biochemist - see here

Ceri at a Wellcome Trust‑funded school event during National Science and Engineering Week in March 2010

Sumaira Hasnain

Congratulations to Sumaira, who has been awarded a University of Manchester Distinguished Achievement Award for the FLS Postgraduate of the Year for 2011.

The Body Experience

Nice that someone recorded their day out at the Body Experience exhibition, visiting Team Mucus and making slime! See this link