Firstly a huge congratulations to Lucy McGowan, Georgie McDonald, Hope Needs, Chisato Tsuji, James Lorriman and Joanna Moss for their publications in 2021.
McGowan LM, Kague E, Vorster A, Newham E, Cross S, Hammond CL. Wnt16 Elicits a Protective Effect Against Fractures and Supports Bone Repair in Zebrafish. JBMR Plus.2021 Jan 12;5(3):e10461. Available from:https://asbmr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jbm4.10461
McDonald GLK, Wang M, Hammond CL, Bergen DJM. Pharmacological Manipulation of Early Zebrafish Skeletal Development Shows an Important Role for Smad9 in Control of Skeletal Progenitor Populations. Biomol. 2021 Feb 13;11(2):277. Available from:https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/11/2/277
Dietrich K, Fiedler IAK, Kurzyukova A, López-Delgado AC, McGowan LM, Geurtzen K, et al. Skeletal Biology and Disease Modeling in Zebrafish. J Bone Miner Res. 2021 Mar 1;36(3):436–58. Available from:https://asbmr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jbmr.4256
Needs HII, Protasoni M, Henley JM, Prudent J, Collinson IR, Pereira GC. Interplay between Mitochondrial Protein Import and Respiratory Complexes Assembly in Neuronal Health and Degeneration. Life. 2021 May 11;11(5):432. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/life11050432
Scott A, Ballesteros LS, Bradshaw M, Tsuji C (辻千里), Power A, Lorriman J, et al. In Vivo Characterization of Endogenous Cardiovascular Extracellular Vesicles in Larval and Adult Zebrafish. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021 July 15:41:2454–68. Available from:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ATVBAHA.121.316539
Henley JM, Nair JD, Seager R, Yucel BP , Woodhall G, Henley BS, Talandyte K, Needs, HII, Kainate and AMPA receptors in epilepsy: Cell biology, signalling pathways and possible crosstalk. Neuropharmacology. 2021 Sep 1;195. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33915142/
Moss JJ, Wirth M, Tooze SA, Lane JD, Hammond CL. Autophagy coordinates chondrocyte development and early joint formation in zebrafish. FASEB. 2021 Oct 28;2021.08.13.456237. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202101167R
A big shout out also to Lucy McGowan who received the Bristol Plus Outstanding Award (Distinction) from the University of Bristol in recognition of work as City Coordinator for Pint of Science. As Bristol's coordinator, Lucy led a team of volunteers to organise and deliver the sell-out 2019 Pint of Science festival as well as hosting collaborative events including Pride of Science with Bristol Pride and the NASA Astronaut Tour with ISSET.
Outreach is a key part of scientific research as demonstrated by Georgina McDonald, the outreach queen, who currently acts a postgraduate Widening Participation Tutor for Life Sciences running outreach sessions to schools all across the UK and in Bristol for ages 15-18, providing students with the skills and the confidence they need to apply to higher education.
Georgie also acts as a tutor for the Brilliant Club, working on the national tutoring programme to help students catch up from the education they missed due to COVID-19, as well as designing a 7-week University style course as part of the Brilliant Club’s Scholars Programme.
Congratulations to Harry Young and his wife Emma Young (a fellow PhD student) on the arrival of adorable baby Otis, no doubt a future scientist in the making.
Well done to Will Gibbs and Georgie McDonald who recently smashed the Scale it up Valesco fitness collective Crossfit competition, with Georgie’s team placing 4th in the women’s section and Wills team placing 8th in the men’s section, the news gave us a real lift!
Looking forward to seeing what 2022 will hold for our wonderful students,
Your Wellcome reps Tiah & James