I was lucky enough to serve as internal examiner for Dr. Vivien Shek from Henry McSorley’s lab alongside external examiner Tara Sutherland, Univ of Aberdeen. It was a great presentation and discussion and I look forward to seeing your work published sometime soon Vivien!
Mattie as served as external examiner for the first PhD student from Adam’s lab at the Crick, Elena Rodrigues. Congrats and well done! It was honour to hear more about your interesting work on Cryptosporidium proteins that target the microvilli.
Mattie was also an invited speaker at the Biochemical Society’s training workshop on Drug Discovery: Key Aspects of Modern Drug Discovery 2024 – a focus on small molecule drug discovery. I delivered a talk and received my Early Career Research Award. This is an annual training workshop and the location changes every year. It was great to participate in the workshop and learn more about drug discovery from experts in the industry and also share my journey in drug discovery with the group. Plus it was a fantastic venue, hosted at Murray Edwards College in Cambridge. I would encourage anyone who has just started working in drug discovery to consider attending. The lecture-workshop style was great! Thanks for the invitation!
I was fortunate to speak at a second event the same week, also hosted in Cambridge by the journal Parasitology: Miniature Worlds: Organoid Research in Parasitology. This was a follow-up event about organoid technologies in parasitology from a session at the 2024 spring British Society of Parasitology Meeting. It was great to be joined by my collaborator David Smith from Moredun, Maria Duque Correa, and John Dalton, and a variety of other speakers to showcase how organoids are opening up new areas of parasite biology.
Thanks very much for the invitation and growing this new network of parasitologists. All the talks were fascinating and I learned a lot.
Now it’s time to buckle down and focus on manuscript writing, experiments, and grant writing. Hopefully more to share in the coming months!
Mattie Christine Pawlowic Lab 