The Hamill lab blog
Today was the graduation for PhD and MPhl students in the faculty of health and life sciences at University of Liverpool. Usually for PhD students, the big celebration comes after the viva, but today everyone who completed their studies in the last six months had the chance to be recognised again together. It’s a long…
Lee presenting LaNt research at ASMB basement membrane meeting, #Nashville
Lee got some practice presenting his poster at Manchester airport pre-flight. I am confident the ASMB will be wowed by the depth of his knowledge. UPDATE: he has now “presented” to 2 families and a high school trip. Public engagement at its finest!
Olivia's MRes project talk.
The end of another year's worth of MRes projects.
This week our undergraduate students completed then final part of their research project; presenting their research in a conference-style talk to faculty and peers. This year we had three students in the lab, and their job was to kick start our new project on LaNt in breast cancer. Over the course of their time in…
A little post from Thanos about his recent trip to Vancouver for ARVO 2019
Today Meng-Chen Tsai presented the work from his Masters in Research project in our lab this semester. Meng’s work has focused on a brand new story in the lab – activation of transcription of different genes using short-activating RNAs. It’s pretty complicate, but in essence we hope to develop a tool (potential therapy) to switch…
Read more They grow up so fast – Meng presenting his MRes work
Another year begins and another student gets a chance to share their work. Today, Olivia (Bov) Kingston presented a poster of the work she did last semester, as part of her MRes in Clinical Sciences. Here she is posing for the obligatory pic (note that she didn’t let me take this one as she is…
Another milestone was reached this week for Liam and Conro as they entered the second year of their PhDs. The transition of a prospective PhD student into year 2 is marked by an talk to the whole institute as part of their rite of passage. It’s quite a stressful time, the first real opportunity to show…
Read more They grow up so fast – Conro and Liam’s 1st year PhD talks
This week we are in Orlando at the International Investigative Dermatology meeting. This once every 5 year event brings together the American European and Japanese societies of skin researchers. It’s a big and, quite genuinely, excellent conference. Lee’s work on our squamous cell carcinoma associated splicing switch was selected from the 1000s of abstracts to…
