Lab News
- December 2019: Leonard Daly brilliantly defended his thesis on HIF post-translational modifications, following the steps of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology and medicine
- October 2019: Welcome to Sally Oswald and Adam Albanese who joined the lab as a PhD students. Sally is co-supervised by Anne Herrmann and clinicians at Alder Hey Hospital. Adam is co-supervised by Sonia Rocha and Phil Elks (Sheffield) and is funded by a MRC DiMen studentship. Other new students have joined the lab: Martyna Wydrzynska (MRes), Harry Collier (MBiol) and Dongyu Li (Honours project).
- October 2019: With the CCI we hosted the Lack family, who watched the cells of their grandmother Henrietta lacks #HeLa cells
- October 2018: Congratulations to Sophie Cowman for surviving a 4h30 viva. Thesis well defended, now off to University of Utah for a post-doc.
- August 2018: We made the front cover of Bioscience Report with the work of Yousef AlMutawa (MPhil student), Catriona Corbishley (undergraduate student) Marie Phelan (NMR specialist) and Anne Herrmann.
- June 2018: Poster presentation by Kit and Rebecca at the Faculty of Life Science day
- April 2018: Congratulations to Sophie Cowman for the best flash talk presentation and Kit Sampat for winning the science photography competition at the NWCR annual symposium. Poster presentation by Rebecca
- April 2018: Brilliant talk by Sophie Cowman at the International Hypoxia signalling Keystone Symposium on How tumour hypoxia affects DNA repair pathway. Both Sophie and Leonard Daly presented a poster.
February 2018: Anne Herrmann has been awarded a prestigious NC3Rs David Sainsbury fellowship
- October 2017: Welcome to Claire Kelly who joined the lab as a PhD student. Claire is co-supervised by Harish Poptani in the Centre for Preclinical Imaging and is funded by the NWCR. Other new students have joined the lab: Paul Malone (MRes), Elysia Lindley (MBiol) and Courtney Savage (Honours project).
- June 2017: Our public engagement activity taking microscopy to primary school has won the Faculty of Health and Life Science public engagement prize. We introduced imaging to year 6 pupils attending Mosspits Lane primary school during Science week, with an undergraduatre project student, Mary Roughley
Outreach activities:
- December 2019: Christmas Science fair at the University of Liverpool prior to the Royal Institution Christmas lecture. Visitors wtached drosophila larvae in a microscope and saw christmas decorations disappear (refraction index matching).
- October 2018: Spooky Science at the Institute of Integrative Biology for a Halloween outreach day
- March 2018: Another edition of Meet the Scientists at the World Museum: "Seeing is believing"
- January 2015: Don Whitley Scientific has made a video of Violaine See explaining the importance of culturing cells in hypoxia.
More pictures from past events: