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!
Lab Day Out
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.
IDRIS Meeting in Dundee
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
Nisha Philip
Beatriz Baragana
Manu de Rycker
Jenny Regan
Lilach Sheiner
Mahmood Alam
Thomas Otto
Richard Wall
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.
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!
Crypto work is funded!
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:
Synopsis of our work on Wellcome’s website
Scottish Press:
Dec 22nd article in The Herald (News, Page 2)
Dec 22nd mention in The Courier (Local Bulletin section)
Ross Bacchetti (PhD student), Mattie, and Beatrice Colon (postdoc) are excited to get to work!
(thanks to Ali Floyd for the photo)
Autumn 2018
September: Mattie and Beatrice attended the Molecular Parasitology Meeting in Woods Hole, MA and both gave talks! We also got to see old friends in the Striepen and Kai Zhang lab.
Beatrice presents her PhD work at MPM
Striepenite reunion at The Kidd
Got to catch up with my undergrad/PhD advisor, Kai Zhang, at MPM
October: The lab has arrived (welcome to Ross, Beatrice, and Jack!), so we went to Brewdog to celebrate! Dr. Lilach Sheiner from the University of Glasgow came to Dundee and gave a great talk about redox and organelle communication in Toxoplasma.
First lab trip to Brewdog!
Lilach Sheiner gave a great seminar talk at Dundee
November: Mattie gave a talk at ToxoUK, and attended the EMBO Lab Leadership course with Dr. Susan Wyllie and Dr. Mahima Swamy.
Dinner at ToxoUK
Susan Wyllie and Mattie attend EMBO Lab Leadership Course
December: Mattie gave a talk at the “London Molecular Parasitology Club” hosted at the Crick by Mike Blackman and Moritz Treeck. Thanks for the invite and the pizza! Ross performed with the Dundee Symphony and we enjoyed our first lab Christmas lunch!
We also started our first attempt at making transgenic Cryptosporidium in Dundee, so stay tuned for the new year!
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