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…
Getting excited for the start of the new season? Well you might like the rest of the GOL throwback series. This is #4, check out #3 here More very soon!
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
This week the British Society of Matrix Biology (BSMB) and Matrix Biology Ireland (MBI) held their spring meeting in Liverpool. There was a solid showing from my team with four posters and a talk covering various aspects of our ongoing work into LaNts and laminins The meeting was excellent. Some really inspirational talks from big…
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
Science and art meet when imaging laminins and other ecm proteins using confocal microscopy
Read more You can see a lot by looking – confocal microscopy imaging of laminins (etc)
Laminins are extracellular proteins, lamins are nuclear envelope proteins – similar names, very different jobs! Want to learn about laminins? Click here for our friendly intro. Wondering what the cone is all about? Find out here
Continuing our cartoons about PhD interviews… Don’t worry, not all students have to do arts and crafts during their selection! Wondering what a basement membrane is? Conro wrote a simple intro here Wondering if this is even vaguely real… see videos below! (Also, watch out for the separate post coming soon with the fully assembled…
This is the first of a new series of posts where we highlight recent developments in laminin research. In the first few months of 2018 there have been a little flurry of papers showing new or improved potential for therapies for inherited diseases where the mutation affects laminin function. So I thought I would group them…
Read more Laminin Research Highlights – Developments in Laminin Therapies
‘Tis the season of the PhD interview. Longer cartoon as Conro asked for his experience to be immortalised in cartoon form. This is part 1… the story will continue. More cartoons? Follow the link below/in the menu
