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Global Young Scientists Summit - 2019

18 January 2019

Karsten Bach is going to Singapore to participate in the GYSS 2019 which is taking place between 20-25 January...

A new messenger

9 January 2019

A collaboration between the labs of Colin Taylor and Eugene Brailoiu (Temple University, Philadelphia) has identified a new messenger linking receptors in the plasma membrane to release of calcium from intracellular stores...

A new approach to measuring pain

30 December 2018

Recent work from the Smith lab, led by Gates Scholar Sampurna Chakrabarti, identified that mice with inflammation in 1 knee spent less time digging than healthy mice...

Pain in IBS and a cover image!

30 December 2018

Dr Jim Hockley from the Smith lab used retrograde tracing in Mrgprd-GFP mice to show that Mrgprd is present in a distinct subset of colonic sensory neurones...

Raising money for charity

30 December 2018

On November 4th 2018, members of the Smith Lab ran the BonfireBurn 10 km run to raise money for Versus Arthritis...

Shooting calcium at lysosomes

12 December 2018

Peace Atakpa, working with Babu Thillaiappan, David Prole and Stefania Mataragka in Colin Taylor’s lab, has shown, using a variety of approaches including a novel genetically encoded Ca2+ sensor, that a specific intracellular channel selectively delivers Ca2+ to lysosomes...

Dr. Walid Khaled Awarded Human Cell Atlas Grant from the MRC

9 December 2018

The MRC, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is investing £6.7 million to support the UK’s contribution to mapping every cell type in the human body, through the global Human Cell Atlas initiative..

Kyren Lazarus has been awarded the 2019 Lorne Boomerang Travel Fellowship

6 December 2018

Kyren Lazarus has been awarded the 2019 Lorne Boomerang Travel Fellowship that aims to bring cancer scientists back to Australia...

A brain highway for glucose

27 November 2018

Margit Muller (in Colin Taylor’s lab) has shown, using optical sensors that report glucose concentrations within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), that a hitherto enigmatic enzyme, glucose-6-phosphatase-β, is required for effective glucose uptake by astrocytes...

BSc Pharmacology Prize

14 November 2018

We are pleased to inform you all that two of our Part II class from last year won prizes from the British Pharmacological Society...

Global Young Scientists Summit - 2019

A new messenger

A new approach to measuring pain

Pain in IBS and a cover image!

Raising money for charity

Shooting calcium at lysosomes

Dr. Walid Khaled Awarded Human Cell Atlas Grant from the MRC

Kyren Lazarus has been awarded the 2019 Lorne Boomerang Travel Fellowship

A brain highway for glucose

BSc Pharmacology Prize

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