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LaNts and Laminins

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      • LaNt a31 – a breast cancer marker and potential drug target
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You can see a lot by looking – fluorescence microscopy to brighten your day

Back in the lab post COVID and Dr Lee Troughton has been on the confocal microscope grabbing some cool pics … More

confocal, hemidesmosome, integrin, Laminin, microscopy

Podcasting

Check out my interview on the Academy “Developing Practice” podcast

award, book, engagement, experimental design, fellowship, impact, MRes, PhD guidebook, teaching

They grow up so fast, especially during lockdown – undergraduate project students

They grow up so fast, especially during lockdown – undergraduate project students

project, teaching, undergraduate

Ending lockdown?

Over the last few months with lab shutdown and the team all stuck at home, it didn’t feel appropriate to … More

lab cartoon

Win a private cookery lesson with JEAN-CHRISTOPHE NOVELLI and help fund cancer research.

Prize draw for cookery lesson with Jean Claude Novelli

Fundraising, NWCR

Darkest hour.

What motivates you?

cartoon, churchill, inspiration, life in the lab

Major Corrections?

Click on the first image to view full-screen/slideshow Why else would Leeburt be rejected? Leave a comment below and I’ll … More

editor, journal article, journal review, rejection, reviewer 2

You need a montage!

This week’s toon involves Lee’s personal training plans.

NWCR, running

Fundraising: half marathon for NWCR

(TLDR: go to my “just giving” page here!) At the end of last year I made a decision that I … More

cancer, Fundraising, NWCR, research, running

Burns Night 2020

Last night we continued our lab tradition of having an evening of haggis, poetry, song and drink to celebrate the … More

burns, haggis, poetry

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  • Funded PhD position Available – Laminins, Superresolution microscopy and Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa
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  • Outreach – Meet the Scientists at the World Museum
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