A brand new post to bring our blog back to life! Scientific life has taken over the TSS lab by storm (typhoon, really) as we undergo the final push to wrap up projects for publication...nothing but intensive hard work, and that's how we roll!
WIMM Day was therefore quite a welcome break from experiments, an exciting annual event that attempts to bring together (nearly) all WIMM scientists together for a day of talks and posters that represent the diverse research that is going on at the institute.
Here's our poster, presented by Vanessa with contributions from Upeka and Daria (not in photo). The poster describes the Biotagging technology developed in our lab to circumvent the need for fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to isolate specific cell populations, by harnessing the power of in vivo biotinylation. More on this in a future blog post... ;)
Next, we have Amy presenting as an Ita Askonas Medal finalist, with her talk titled 'A resoure to study the innate immune response in vivo - the promise of zebrafish'. Great job, Amy!
Two coffee breaks, a lunch break and many talks later, it was time for the 4th Weatherall Lecture presented by none other than Sir Paul Nurse himself! Sir Nurse gave an inspiring lecture describing the latest findings in his life-work of understanding cell cycle control, as well as a powerful and insightful take on how to 'make science work' for everyone from the general public to the level of the individual researcher...certainly something that not many of us actually stop to think about in our constant quest for more data as we bury ourselves in experiments.
Which brings us to the end of WIMM Day 2015...hello weekend! :)
Best,
Sharkie