The Hamill lab blog
Today the pride levels are extra high. Valentina Iorio submitted her PhD thesis!!! Valentina was the first person to join my lab. I interviewed her whilst still in Chicago and was super impressed with not only her academic ability but also her bubbly personality. I have never looked back. It’s been an amazing three and…
Read more They grow up so fast…. PhD thesis submission edition!
Yesterday MRes students Liam and Conro attended “Scaling, the cytoskeleton and mechanobiology” at the University of Durham. Courtesy of help with printing from Prof Roy Quinlan, Conro was able to present his recent MRes project data about using a minigene construct to study splicing regulation in LAMA3. I was on holiday so unable to attend so…
Read more They grow up so fast – Durham cytoskeleton meeting
Last week St Paul’s eye unit and the Department of Eye and Vision Science at the University of Liverpool hosted a dinner at Liverpool town hall to promote the St Paul’s Eye Appeal. This appeal supports a number of research projects that don’t fit into the common funding mechanisms. i.e. the appeals fills the gap…
Putting together the images from our sunscreen project to prepare the manuscript…. Here are a bunch of the eye images that MRes student Kareem took. Not sure why but I find it strangely compelling so thought I would share. If you were part of the study I challenge you to spot yourself… Can’t wait for…
We are pleased to announce we have been awarded funding do a really cool project in the area of matrix assembly in the alveolar epithelium and are currently accepting applications for a funded PhD studentship position. Interested? apply here; Determination of the mechanisms through which age and disease associated alveolar epithelial matrix changes drive development and…
Last night the Hamill team celebrated the life and works of Robert Burns with a night of food, poetry, song and dance with team members, partners, children and friends. It was a fantastic time with much hilarity, delicious food and drink. Many thanks to everyone for coming and for making it such a fun night.…
New year, new poster session with Hamill lab students in action. This time its the turn of two MRes students from this year’s clinical sciences cohort. Tobi Oyewole’s project looked into changes in LaNt a31 distribution in corneal limbal explants, a model of corneal wound repair in relation to proteins associated with of limbal basal…
Congratulations to PhD student Karen Lester on a prize winning talk at the Department of Eye and Vision Science and St Paul’s Eye Unit annual ophthalmology presentations. Karen’s studies are trying reverse engineering glaucoma in order to identify new therapeutic targets to treat this blinding disease. She already has some interesting findings and its developing…
Read more They grow up so fast – Mapstone prize winner edition
Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming Paraolympic athlete Stephanie Slater to our lab. Stephanie won gold (4×100 medley relay) and silver (100m butterfly) in Rio 2016 as well as gold and silvers at the 2013 world championships. Stephanie has suffered from a rare ocular disorder called Keratoconus (cone shaped cornea) that leads to bulging…
Busy couple of weeks with the semester ending and various groups of my students being tasked to create a poster. Yesterday was the turn of my 3rd Molecular Biology students who chose to look at miRNA and age-related disease. They did a thoroughly good job, without really needing any input from me. I don’t know…
Read more They grow up so fast – 3rd year tutorial group edition
