Miss Yang Li (PhD student in the Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease) presented her research poster at the British Society for Immunology (BSI) Congress in Brighton 4th – 7th December. Yang presented her research on the topic of intracellular innate signalling mediated by a protein called STING (STimulator of INterferon Genes). STING is…
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Congratulations to Hannah Roddie from Iwan Evan’s lab who was selected to talk at the Immunity Workshop for the 25th European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC). Hannah gave a very professional talk on how apoptotic cell clearance controls macrophage behaviours in the developing fly embryo. In fact, she did so well that prestigious overseas labs were…
Continue reading →Second year PhD student, Karishma Chhabria from the Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, has recently been awarded two prizes for demonstrating her research skills. Karishma’s first prize was awarded for the ‘Best one-minute poster pitch’ in the Neuroimaging session at the Sheffield Neuroscience conference, 2017. The Sheffield neuroscience meeting was a one day…
Continue reading →Congratulations to 2nd Year PhD student, Ben Ward (member of Dr. Ridger’s Group), who has recently won the prize for ‘Best Poster Presentation’ at the International Society for Extracellular Vesicle Meeting in Rotterdam. Ben is funded by the British Heart Foundation for the duration of his PhD. His poster, titled ‘Neutrophil derived microvesicles preferentially adhere…
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