The Hamill lab blog
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…
Today the final year undergrad students who had been completing their project in the Hamill lab gave their project talks. Maddie, Caitlin and Jess all worked on our laminins in cancer project. They worked really hard evaluating data from hundreds of patients with HNSCC, coming up with a scoring system and then using it to…
Read more They grow up so fast – Maddie, Jess and Caitlin project talks
Today Thanos had his first year talk at the institute; a rite of passage on his road toward PhD. It’s always great to see these talks as it is usually a time when things really kick into place. Thanos talk was really fantastic – polished and professional – and thoroughly appreciated by everyone there. Thanos’…
Science-based works of Art (#sciart) created yesterday at the Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease by year-6 children (10-11yrs old) from Liverpool primary schools will be on display at Royal Liverpool University Hospital foyer on Fri the 26th Jan (11am-5pm)! If you are around, come along and support #scicomm Message from Valentina Barrera and the…
Another new year, another new “They grow up so fast” post. This time its the turn of four MRes Clinical Sciences students that have been with our lab for the past 3 months. Today, the students were presenting their work at a poster session in the Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease. Four projects, all…
