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Staff news and Success<\/strong><\/p>\n Drs Neil Cross\u00a0and Amanda Harvey <\/strong>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,\u00a0testing Asterand’s model in breast cancer. She has been awarded a travel scholarship which covers her 3 month trip.<\/p>\n Dr Helene Fachim<\/strong> has\u00a0been awarded a\u00a0grant\u00a0 to come back to BMRC\u00a0for a year starting in March\/April 2017.\u00a0Dr Caroline Dalton and Prof Gavin Reynolds published a paper with Helene last time she was in BMRC which was published in Epigenomics (IF 4).\u00a0 Helen has expertise in pyrosequencing and will be an excellent postdoctoral researcher addition\u00a0to BMRC.<\/p>\n Professor Malcolm Clench<\/strong> has been invited to give a number of guest lectures for The Centre for Mass Spectrometry Imaging\u00a0 this\u00a0year.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Dr Simona Francese<\/strong> has been awarded an EU COST Action grant of \u00a3116K for this year, and for 4 years in total (the amount increases each year\u00a0based on the number of countries involved). This year Dr Francese is\u00a0coordinating 20 Countries and 85+ scientists across Europe.<\/p>\n Dr Chris Whiteoak is co-organising the Dalton Division North conference in Sheffield on 28th<\/sup> June, please ask Chris for more details.<\/p>\n Student Success<\/strong><\/p>\n Ieva Palubeckaite<\/strong>, PhD student has received a \u00a3550 travel grant from the Biochemical Society for a two week lab visit to Leiden, Netherlands in order to do some quantitative\u00a0peptide and protein\u00a0mass spectrometry \u00a0imaging.<\/p>\n She also was awarded \u00a3500 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.<\/p>\n Joseph Snuggs<\/strong>, VC Scholarship PhD student, was awarded \u00a34,500\u00a0 by The Society for Back Pain Research. The award will be used for travel and accommodation for a trip to Philadelphia, USA\u00a0to collaborate\u00a0 with Prof. Makarand Risbud at Thomas Jefferson University relating to research themes around ‘Molecular mechanisms regulating aquaporin expression and activity in the intervertebral disc’.<\/p>\n Sophie Hutchinson<\/strong>, PhD student, has been awarded a \u00a3305 grant towards travel and accommodation for the Microbiology society conference in Edinburgh in April 2017.<\/p>\n Mootaz M. Salman<\/strong>, 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 \u201cPostgrad LIVE! Masters & PhD Study Fair\u201d at Sheffield Town Hall on the 8th of February, 2017. This event was organised by FindAPhD.com.<\/p>\n Aimee Paskins<\/strong>, PhD student, has been successful in gaining a postdoctoral positon with Dr Mark Bass at the University of Sheffield\u2019s centre for membrane interactions and dynamics, starting in April for 2 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff news and Success Drs Neil Cross\u00a0and Amanda Harvey have a visiting graduate student from Canada coming in April who will be working on a project related to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6477,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-successes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2017\/04\/Staff.jpeg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-1p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":831,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/10\/11\/fingerprint-technology\/","url_meta":{"origin":87,"position":0},"title":"Pioneering fingerprint technology verified in court","author":"Jane Gardner-Florence","date":"October 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr Simona Francese from the Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre has been speaking about a ground-breaking fingerprint profiling method, developed at Hallam, which can provide an in-depth analysis of fingerprints at crime scenes. 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\nDr Prachi Stafford<\/strong> \u00a0was selected as one of only ten early career lecturers to join the Royal Society of Biology Early Career Lecturers\u2019 Forum, following a competitive application process.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n