 Mark’s paper is now out in J Neurosci and thanks to
Wellcome’s Open Access policy it’s available for all to read here and here – enjoy!
Braving the hottest, most cramped and most inaccessible
poster board layout known to science, Adna, Annisa and Mark all presented at the recent BNA Festival of Neuroscience just up the road at the Barbican. Some good feedback & discussion, and some
interesting sessions at the conference too, so we’re hoping the BNA sticks to
London in the future.
More team member changes, as usual – Tom finished his
rotation project with us, and we now have an MSc student for the summer,
Shivali Kohli, who’s looking at optogenetic activation of calcineurin-dependent
transcription factors. And we’re hoping
that Elisa Galliano will join us for a post-doc soon. Matt went over to her current lab in
Rotterdam to give a talk in March, and to work on possible projects and funding
for her to study olfactory bulb plasticity here. The applications are underway, so fingers
crossed!
Lastly, in non-science lab news, Matt got married on April
13th! A fantastic day despite
the British weather, and life as an honest man is agreeing with him very well
so far.
February 2013
Apologies for the long time since the previous post, but we
have been busy! The best and most
important development since then is news of our first laboratory publication:
Mark’s first author paper on calcineurin signalling and AIS plasticity features
no less than six current and past Grubb Lab members, and is currently in press
at the Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations everyone! We also just found out that the lab was successful in
bidding for a Research Grant from the Royal Society. This will add UV-based calcium imaging to the
already impressive array of things our confocal can do for us, so we’re itching
to start playing with the new equipment as soon as possible.
Not too much travelling at the moment while we gear up for
bigger things in 2013, but we had a very local zebrafish imaging meeting in
December where Adna got to present her initial data, and Matt went to two
different Wellcome fundee meetings in the space of two weeks recently where it
was great to interact with scientists across all sorts of biological
disciplines.
Personnel-wise, we have a new MRes roton Tom Ryan in the
lab, who’s getting involved with olfactory bulb development and plasticity in
vivo and producing some lovely 3D cell images.
Away from the bench, we had a Watkinswine-fuelled
celebratory dinner to mark our 36-month anniversary as a lab (why not?), a
Spiced-up Christmas party season, and we even scored free tickets to go and
look down on the department from the top of the Shard!
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