🚨 IT’S RARE DISEASE DAY! 🚨 For #RareDiseaseDay 2024 we're highlighting key facts and figures to educate change makers on the shared challenges of our community. Alongside these we will share the #StoriesBehindTheStats. 👉 ow.ly/4j7E50QIXEY

Tonight, we are shining a light on Magdalen College to raise awareness for the 400 million people living with #raredisease. To address unmet need in rare disease, we drive cutting-edge breakthroughs to clinical impact for patients #RareDiseaseDay2024

It is a pleasure to highlight the importance of #RecognisingFacialPalsy this #FPAW2024 #MySLTDay Giving Voice

Our lab is out in force for this conference, with Steve Twigg, Lisa, and Isaac Walton off to Barcelona in May - for those planning on joining us, the abstract deadline is soon!

Lab alumnus Yang Pei is today presenting part of his DPhil work in the NHS Central and South Genomics Long Read Case Detectives Event: 'Characterising clinically relevant structural variants using Bionano optical genome mapping'

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 The latest publication from the Oxford Craniofacial Unit speech and language therapy team investigated speech, language, hearing and feeding in patients with Crouzon Syndrome with Acanthosis Nigricans (CAN)….🧵1/9

We make recommendations for the management of speech, language, hearing and feeding 9/9: journals.lww.com/jcraniofacials…

Our group are away from the hospital today for the annual RDM Oxford day! If you’re attending be sure to stop by our DPhil student Isaac Walton’s poster on mouse modelling of ZIC1-associated craniosynostosis 🐭🧬

Very excited to have been shortlisted for the lta Askonas medal! Looking forward to presenting again at our Institute’s annual symposium in June 🙌

Congratulations to our DPhil student Isaac Walton who has been shortlisted for the Ita Askonas medal! Isaac’s presentation was on the mouse modelling of ZIC1-associated craniosynostosis, and can be heard again at WIMM day later in the year 🧬🐭

📢 Abstracts are open! Join us at the #BSGMConference2024 at📍the Royal College of Physicians📅on 5th Nov This year’s themes include AI, the power of big data and gene therapies🧬 ⏱️Abstracts close 1st July #Genetics #Genomics #RareDisease bsgm.org.uk/events/bsgm-co…

Congratulations to our DPhil student Isaac Walton! Isaac won the Judge’s prize at Oxford-MRC DTP for speedily presenting his research about modelling ZIC1 craniosynostosis in mice - in under 3 minutes ⏱️‼️

KJ Patel CAM-OX traveller Anne Goriely RDM Oxford Adam Mead David Cruz Hernandez 🌵 Vyas Lab Lauren Murphy Beth Psaila In the 2nd scientific session of the day, chaired by James Davies, three PhD students are battling it out to win the Ita Askonas Medal and a £500 prize! 🏅💸   Good luck to all three finalists, Elizabeth Horton (Rehwinkel Group), Isaac Walton (Wilkie Lab) and Joseph Hamley

Congratulations to our Postdoc Lisa for being a runner up in the MRC WIMM Public Engagement Awards! 🗣️🧪 Lisa has been involved in numerous initiatives since joining our lab, most recently helping to organise Pint of Science UK in Oxford 🍺

It's a momentous week: after 8 years in the Wilkie Lab, our former postdoc/visiting researcher edu calpena is leaving Oxford to become a Principal Investigator at IIS La Fe in Valencia 🧬🇪🇸 Congratulations to Edu, and farewell - we wish you the best of luck with your next steps!

We wish edu calpena all the best on his PI endeavours in Valencia. His wealth of knowledge and infectious personality will be missed!

Check out this special symposium edition of Journal of Anatomy on #craniosynostosis guest edited by one of our PIs, Steve Twigg, and featuring work by our DPhil student Isaac Walton 🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…