Staff news and Success
Drs Neil Cross and Amanda Harvey have a visiting graduate student from Canada coming in April who will be working on a project related to the InnovateUK grant awarded to Dr Cross, testing Asterand’s model in breast cancer. She has been awarded a travel scholarship which covers her 3 month trip.
Dr Helene Fachim has been awarded a grant to come back to BMRC for a year starting in March/April 2017. Dr Caroline Dalton and Prof Gavin Reynolds published a paper with Helene last time she was in BMRC which was published in Epigenomics (IF 4). Helen has expertise in pyrosequencing and will be an excellent postdoctoral researcher addition to BMRC.
Professor Malcolm Clench has been invited to give a number of guest lectures for The Centre for Mass Spectrometry Imaging this year.
The Centre for Mass spectrometry Imaging has joined the UK Mass spectrometry research network, which is collection of 23 UK Universities plus two government agencies. This brings together researchers in mass spectrometry with some opportunities to apply for small funding pots. Ask Malcolm to find out more.
Dr Simona Francese has been awarded an EU COST Action grant of £116K for this year, and for 4 years in total (the amount increases each year based on the number of countries involved). This year Dr Francese is coordinating 20 Countries and 85+ scientists across Europe.
Dr Prachi Stafford was selected as one of only ten early career lecturers to join the Royal Society of Biology Early Career Lecturers’ Forum, following a competitive application process. This group consists of 10 staff from different Heads of University Biosciences (HUBS) member institutions who are in the first 5 years of their first permanent academic appointment. The group will elect its own Chair and Secretary, and the Chair will attend meetings of the HUBS executive to feed in the views of early careers staff, informing HUBS and Royal Society of Biology activities as appropriate.
Dr Chris Whiteoak is co-organising the Dalton Division North conference in Sheffield on 28th June, please ask Chris for more details.
Student Success
Ieva Palubeckaite, PhD student has received a £550 travel grant from the Biochemical Society for a two week lab visit to Leiden, Netherlands in order to do some quantitative peptide and protein mass spectrometry imaging.
She also was awarded £500 travel grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Chemistry Trust in order to present at the annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference in USA this summer.
Joseph Snuggs, VC Scholarship PhD student, was awarded £4,500 by The Society for Back Pain Research. The award will be used for travel and accommodation for a trip to Philadelphia, USA to collaborate with Prof. Makarand Risbud at Thomas Jefferson University relating to research themes around ‘Molecular mechanisms regulating aquaporin expression and activity in the intervertebral disc’.
Sophie Hutchinson, PhD student, has been awarded a £305 grant towards travel and accommodation for the Microbiology society conference in Edinburgh in April 2017.
Mootaz M. Salman, PhD student, was invited as a member of panel speakers to talk about his PhD experience at Sheffield Hallam University and how to the make the most of your time while studying during the “Postgrad LIVE! Masters & PhD Study Fair” at Sheffield Town Hall on the 8th of February, 2017. This event was organised by FindAPhD.com.
Aimee Paskins, PhD student, has been successful in gaining a postdoctoral positon with Dr Mark Bass at the University of Sheffield’s centre for membrane interactions and dynamics, starting in April for 2 years.
