Senyo Botchie joins us from Dr. Irene Ayi’s group at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra, Ghana. Senyo is a WCAIR trainee visiting to learn the basics of Cryptosporidium detection, in vitro culture, microscopy, and drug discovery.
Stephen Andrews is an undergraduate student at the University of Dundee who has joined us as an Honours Student. He has become prolific at midipreps, PCR, and DNA cloning. We’re happy to have you!
Nina Svensen, a postdoc in the Drug Discovery Unit, has joined us to set up in vitro drug discovery assays.
Thanks to the School of Life Sciences, BCDD, and SLS lab managers for supporting expanded lab space for the Pawlowic Lab. We now have a dedicated category2 fecal lab and tissue culture lab. We can finally all fit in the lab at the same time!
We had a lab day out to Stonehaven, Scotland: home to Dunnotar Castle, a nice pebble beach , and a great ice cream and chippy! The east coast of Scotland can be very sunny… we all got burned! Thanks to Emma for the photos.
When you play the game of thrones, you win… or you die.
March 6th-7th we held a joint meeting of the 4th Infectious Diseases Research Meeting Initiative Scotland in combination with the WCAIR Spring Symposium. David Horn and Mattie co-organised with immense support from Catharine Goddard, WCAIR manager, and the BCDD Admin team (thanks Karen, Diane, Kirstie, Pamela, and Laura!). Special thanks to the Wellcome Trust and WCAIR for sponsoring this event and making it possible to host over 130 participants! (Wellcome ISSF funds from the School of Life Sciences)
The meeting included talks from researchers at the University of Dundee, the University of Glasgow’s Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, and the Edinburgh Infectious Disease Network at the University of Edinburgh. Thanks to Andy Waters and Keith Matthews for the support.
Alan Fairlamb shares the history of the DDU
Thomas Otto
Nisha Philip
Manu de Rycker
Beatriz Baragana
Mahmood Alam
Lilach Sheiner
Richard Wall
Jenny Regan
Wiebke Nahrendorf
Migla Miskinyte
There were opportunities to tour the DDU and proteomics facilities, 1-minute “flash” poster talks, an evening poster session, dinner, and a public engagement showcase.
Proteomics and Mass SpecHigh-throughout screening facilityTouring the chemistry labs
The main meeting was directly followed by a satellite meeting for postdocs and senior graduate students to meet and talk with early career researchers. Juan Quintana and Joana Faria from WCAIR, received a grant from SULSA to invite the ECR speakers to Dundee and organised the entire afternoon workshop. Well done!
We hope you all enjoyed your time in Dundee and we certainly learned a lot about the exciting new infectious disease research happening across Scotland. We hope this event sparked new collaborations, grants, and connections. See you at the next IDRIS!
Really thrilled to announce that our work to explore Cryptosporidium transmission has been funded by The Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust through a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. To read more about our research, click the links below:
When you play the game of thrones, you win… or you die.
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