CENTRE NEWS

Papers accepted

Massam-Wu T, Chiu M, Choudhury R, Chaudhry SS, Baldwin AK, McGovern A, Baldock C, Shuttleworth CA, Kielty CM(2010) Fibrillin microfibril assembly governs extracellular latent TGFbeta deposition. J. Cell Science (in press).

Invited conference talks

Mark Travis

16th-21st May. Immunobiology and Immunochemistry Gordon Conference, Les Diablerets, Switzerland. A critical role for integrin-mediated TGF-beta activation by dendritic cells in the regulation of gut immune responses.

Poster Presentations

Luke Bonser

May 26th. Young Life Scientists' Symposium: The next generation of asthma and allergy research, London Southbank University. Unplugging the airways: Does proteolysis accompany mucin unpackaging?

 

Ceri Harrop

At the same symposium, Ceri presented a poster on: Cross-talk between human lung fibroblasts and bronchial epithelial cells regulates mucin production.

Congratulations to Ceri for winning the Judges Poster Prize.

 

Mark Morgan

May 21st – 26th.  EMBO Cellular Signaling and Molecular Medicine meeting, Cavtat, Croatia. Syndecan-4 phosphorylation: a molecular switch driving integrin recycling to control focal adhesion dynamics.

 

Hellyeh Hamidi

At the same conference Hellyeh presented a poster on: Regulation of syndecan-4 function by differential phosphorylation.

Congratulations to...

Sumaira Hasnain

Was awarded travel grants from Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant (£4000) and the Royal Society of Chemistry Travel Grant (£500) to attend the Biology of Parasitism Course at Wood's Hole, USA.

Claudia Wellbrock

Has been awarded one year funding ($98,000) for a postdoc by the Harry J Llloyd Trust, which will hopefully allow Claudia to produce preliminary data on live imaging in zebrafish for future grant applications.

Other news

Tony Day

Was the external PhD examiner for Mr. Alessandr Ori, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool on 21 May 2010.  Supervisors: David Fernig & Mark Wilkinson.