Wellcome Trust student achievement round-up – 2022 (January - July)

Organisers BMS - Tiah Oates, Will Gibbs and other organisers.

James Lorriman and Sam Dunkley who were awarded 2nd and 3rd prize for their short talks at the conference respectively.

Sam Dunkley at the Biomedical Research Showcase Conference at Bristol Beacon.

21 July 2022

An opportunity to shout about some of the amazing achievements of our fantastic Wellcome PhD students both in and out of the lab.

Firstly, a huge congratulations to Tiah Oates and Will Gibbs who coordinated the organisation of the Biomedical Research Showcase Conference at Bristol Beacon on May 24^th -25^th . Their monumental effort resulted in an absolutely brilliant conference (here's to hoping this could become an annual event!).

Congratulations to James Lorriman and Sam Dunkley who were awarded 2^nd and 3^rd prize for their short talks at the conference respectively.

...On the publishing side of things congratulations go out to Anne George and Sam for their recent publications:

George A, Martin P. Wound Healing Insights from Flies and Fish. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2022 Jul 11:a041217. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041217. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35817511.

Dunkley, S., Scheffler, K. & Mogessie, B. Cytoskeletal form and function in mammalian oocytes and zygotes. Curr Opin Cell Biol 75, 102073, doi:10.1016/j.ceb.2022.02.007 (2022).

Dunkley, S. & Mogessie, B. Actin limits egg aneuploidies associated with female reproductive aging. bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2022.05.18.491967 (2022)

And finally outside of science...

Another congratulations to Will Gibbs on qualifying for the southwest regionals Crossfit competition - best of luck for the competition Will, we will all be cheering you on!