Really enjoying the Weisenfeld Lecture by award winner Dr. Paul Bernstein about nutritional approaches to treating retinal disease. P.S. super thrilled to see the reference to Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin is eating ‘retina sandwiches’! 🤣

Sunayna Best from our lab talking about her work identifying molecular diagnoses amongst participants entered to the 100,000 Genomes Project with suspected primary ciliopathies this afternoon at the UK cilia network e-symposium. #UKCilia2021

Looking forward to attending this in a few hours!

Loving these two talks about the role of centrioles satellites in ciliogenesis by Emma Hall and Dhivya Kumar. Looking forward to reading the pre-print. #ukcilia2022

This is what trying to get papers done while on maternity leave looks like! 😅😅At least the view is gorgeous!😍 #sciencemum #WomenInSTEM

What a fantastic talk at the 40th Official_BSCB e-symposium by Takanobu Katoh of the Hamada lab on left-right axis patterning, a subject I find fascinating and have worked on years ago. Ventral bending! Will definitely be checking out the biorxiv paper! #ukcilia2022 #awesome

Arl13b and kidney cysts. Great final talk by @vansciver from the Caspary lab to wrap up today’s e-symposium. Looking forward to the next one in June! #ukcilia2022

Article identifying low levels of BChE as a marker for SIDS. Hopefully a larger study is in progress and maybe one day soon we will have a blood test to let parents know if their child has a propensity towards this terrifying event! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35533499/ #SIDS #cotdeath

I normally just post about science here. But today Roe vs Wade was overturned and American women lost autonomy over their bodies. Forced to continue with unwanted or high risk pregnancies. Forced to face the potentially life threatening risk of childbirth. I feel such despair!

It’s the first time I’m attending this conference online instead of in person since it started in 2014. But can’t wait to listen to this exciting line up of talks!

Having a good first week back at work after my maternity leave! ☺️

Really enjoying day 2 of #cilia2022! Absolutely fantastic talks so far. The session on cilia and cancer is up next. Can’t wait!

Fantastic talk about the roles of kurly in vertebrate development. It raised so many interesting questions about its role! Very curious to find out more and will be following this story closely in future! #cilia2022

Absolutely mind blowing talk at #cilia2022 #EMBOcilia2022.

Thank you for delivering such a great conference and thank you for making it hybrid Bernhard Schermer and all the other organisers! Looking forward to Cilia2024 in Dublin! #cilia2022 #EMBOcilia2022

What a fantastic day of talks Leeds Centre for Disease Models! ❤️ Kudos to the organisers! 👏👏 I’m so pleased that I could present my work on modelling retinal diseases using iPS cells today.

It’s out!

My work on PYGM retinal modelling is out in Journal of Biological Chemistry! This has been a labour of love spanning two maternity leaves and a pandemic. A big thanks to my co-authors and to the University of Leeds for granting me their Academic Development Funding. jbc.org/article/S0021-…

It’s been fantastic attending the #Cilia2024 conference online this week! It’s come at a perfect time for me as I just went back to studying a ciliary gene in retinal degeneration! Brilliant array of talks! Kudos to the organisers! 👏

Had a great day at @ukcilianetwork meeting in Liverpool today. Fantastic talks and was so excited to meet so many friends and colleagues in person again! Buzzing! 😊 #cilia #ukcilianetwork