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Nov 29th: Early holiday outing in order to be able to send Siyang off in style. Siyang is heading back to China, good luck Siyang, it has been great to have had you in the team.

Oct : Marcin wins poster prize, congratulations Marcin!!

Sep 27th: IRR Open Day – Michaela has a stall

Sep 22nd: Siyang is now (almost) Dr Jia. Well done Siyang! Paulo and Adriano as examiners .

Sep 22nd: Final Viva preparations for Siyang ….

Aug 15th: Annual combined writing retreat and Fringe day out.

June 25th: Michaela is in the 3MT college final, and did great!

June 18th: Lab social with Escape room. First picnic on the sunny Meadows, Escape Room, and a debrief. Well done guys, “the Hippo’s” made it onto the monthly leaderboard. 2nd Place, pretty impressive really, and certainly good fun! Maybe we would have gotten first place, if Michaela had been able to join us?:)

May 14th: Michaela introduces Liberton highschool students to the zebrafish

Feb 11th: Shivangi’s (front left) and Hailey’s (front right) time with us is soon coming to a close. They are finishing up their experiments this week and will then write up their reports. Good work Hailey and Shivangi with interesting findings!

Dec 7th: Our mesothelioma work features in The Herald

Nov 29th: Festive celebrations with a murder mystery. Really good fun!

Nov 12th: Carsten Gives presentation at the FASEB Hippo meeting. Meeting features a Rocket!

Sep 4th: Krishna is now Dr Purohit. Congratulations Krishna!

Aug 26th: Group meeting and visit by lab alumni Dr Salem.

Aug 22nd: Fringe and writing day

Annual Fringe outing! This year with a writing retreat beforehand. And then onto the show, to finally establish, is the Jaffa cake, a cake, or a biscuit?

June 11th:

Viva day. Congratulations Dr Koeln!

May 8-10th:

Michaela attending the “Disease Models and Mechanisms” workshop

March 28th: Michaela and Nancy gives flash talks, here Nancy is shown presenting

March 14th: Writing day followed by bowling.

Feb 12th: We celebrate Chinese New Year. Thanks Nancy for hosting. In the picture Ricky, Zenuida, Nancy and Krishna. Missing Marcin, Michaela (and Siyang, who is in China for the New Year celebrations).

Happy year of the Dragon everyone!

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Dec 12th: Dr Riley’s viva, congratulations Susanna!!!! PhD Jewellery by Gill. Nic Tapon featuring on the 2nd picture from the left was the external examiner. Yi Feng, CIR/IRR was the 2nd supervisor. Well done Susanna!

Dec 8th: Lab Christmas lunch 2023!

Nov 29th: Picture from Protein Signalling in Snowy Favrefolm. Excellent meeting!

Nov 24th: This years Christmas card is designed by Michaela, what a beauty!

but it is all a bit fishy…….

Nov 5th: Krishna, Marcin, Nancy and Michaela are in Firbush for a two nights stay with the Little France post graduate society. Firbush is UoE’s Outdoor centre located on Loch Tay, An excellent UoE facility with a lot of fun, and team building. A real gem!

Oct 30th: We are having dinner to celebrate Susanna’s submission. And sadly it is also her last day with us, and it is time to say goodbye. In true Susanna style she submitted her thesis with more than a week to spare. Good luck Susanna, it has been fantastic to have you as part of the team!

Oct 27th. Nancy wins the pumpkin carving Post Grad contest at Little France!!

Sep 19th: Ricky wins the Edinburgh University “citizenship” award for post Docs. Congratulations Ricky!

Aug 23th: New Team photo is in! This is the one going on the wall in our new building.

Top row: Susanna, Michaela, Siyang and Nancy. Lower row: Krishna, Carsten and Ricky

Aug 9th: Meet Alex! AI meets impromptu standup. Team day out at the Fringe

It is Alex in top picture

July 20th: Today we hosted three S5 students through the Science Insight program. The keen students came across from Glasgow (2x) and Perth, and were shown several techniques and experimental models, including bioengineering, and hosted expertly by Michaela and Nancy.

June 14th: Picture of “our new home”

June 9th: Writing and workshop retreat in sunny Edinburgh!

May 31st: Susanna gives an excellent seminar (at a slightly unusual setting) on her PhD project. Well done Susanna!

May 12th: We celebrate again! This time Ricky is back from his Italian wedding (something in the water?;), and celebration is also for his mesothelioma paper a little while back. 2x Congratulations Ricky!

May: Part of present and previous lab members are in Cairo to celebrate Omar getting married! Omar thanks for hosting us, it was fantastic!

From left to right: Nancy, Jiwon, Carsten, Siyang and Valentina

March 15th: Nancy is in HongKong and giving a presentation…

Feb 7th: It is getting a bit Fishy ….

Susanna and Michaela hard at work!

Jan 23rd Chinese New Year Xīn Nián Kuài Lè 新年快樂

Nancy help organising a Chinese New Year event at the IRR

2023

Dec 1st: We say farewell to Yue, who first joined us for her 2nd rotation project and then stayed on for a three months internship with us, where she generated Crispr lines. It was great having you Yue, and we wish you good luck with the future!

Aug 17th: Lab Social at the Fringe. Fun evening out with pizza and story of the local Dolly

**Ready for the Show!**
From left to right. Marcin, Yue, (back, Omar), (front, Nancy), Siyang, Ricky, Krishna, Susanna and Michaela

May 5th: Tour of the new institute, where we are moving in early 2023, followed by Pizza. A few team members missing

March 15th: Yue and Shijia arrives for their first day in the lab.
They are joining us for their 2nd rotation on the MScR Biomedical program. Welcome!

Siyang bakes his first cake! Huge success, soon ready for the bakeoff!

March ’22 Team Photo for our present your paper day

Dec 9th: Christmas has come early….

Nov 22nd: Carsten is on the STV 6 O’clock news discussing precision medicine approaches in lung cancer

Nov 11th: Jiwon is now Dr Park. Congratulations!

Oct 4th: We are in the news. Discovery based research is the first step towards cures! Published in the Herald

Spot Ricky, Susanna, Siyang and Carsten in the pictures

Sep 28th: We introduce Dr Salem. Omar flew through his viva!

And the gift from the team!

Dr Salem’s present (as per tradition) depicting Omars PhD project from the talented Gill Howard

Sep 12th: Social WCR media portrays us!

Sep 11th: Walk in the Blackford Hills ….. nice view over Edinburgh, the castle again in the background … rather dramatic ending when Carsten got into close contacts with some not so impressed local residents (wasps)…. Scoreline Wasps 3 – Carsten 0

Sep 9th: Meet Susanna – The cure-starter! Part of WCR campaign

June 11th: Walk in the Botanics. Spot the castle in the background. Nice meet-up!

May 7th: First meeting in person for a long time…walk up Arthurs Seat… most of us could make it and it was great to see each other. Monthly outdoor get together planned throughout the Summer!

Susanna, Jiwon and Krishna made it to the top! We had sunny weather … at least some of the time, it is Scotland after all ;).