Lisa's Lab Book

Congratulations to Nial on achieving his PhD on the Metabolism of the Dairy Cow Nial was a hero in the lab group and everyone enjoyed his presence there. Highlights included our group trip to Innsbruck for the BEC inaugural meeting. Also, we had an extremely good time going upto Hull to visit the aquarium for our field trip. Nial will be missed for his 'terrible' jokes and for his huge experience in the dairy cattle universe amongst many other things. Nial is continuing to do research alongside his work with the advanced management of dairy cattle. We wish him well and hope to see him often.  

  Chasing Icefish can be viewed on You Tube Pedro, the BBC cameraman who was on board as part of your project team was asked to make some videos about the research on board RV Polarstern. Although I don't love to see myself on camera, seeing this footage sends a thrill through me, Antarctica is an extraordinary place to work in. The icefish are stunningly beautiful animals.

  We have been awarded NIHR funding for a diamond quantum-sensing diagnostic approach to identify individuals at a high risk of complications with Chronic liver disease (CLD). CLD is characterised by progressive liver fibrosis, advancing from mild to severe stages and ultimately leading to cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer. CLD is estimated to impose an annual economic burden of £3.5 billion in direct care and exceeds £17 billion total burden on the UK economy. 10–30% of individuals with CLD progress to cirrhosis, of these, approximately 5% develop liver failure, liver cancer or other major complications . Currently, there are no reliable tools to predict which patients will develop progressive fibrosis or which individuals with cirrhosis will experience complications.  Our collaboration combines expertise from  Dr. Aloysious Aravinthan (Clinical GI specialist), Prof. Melissa Mather (Quantum Diamonds Engineer), Prof. Mark Fromhold (Physicist -Magnetic fields) and ...

 We had a team come to Nottingham to make a documentary which will include our interest in Icefish. A whole day of filming, an interesting experience and just a very lovely group of people to work with. I will post an update once the documentary is finished.

 The exhibition summarises a number of life drawing sessions held by Janet Shipton ' Painting with Mr. P '. A number of the artists and even the model 'sitters' are affected by Parkinson's disease.  For me it was a chance to see the birthplace museum and have my sketches exhibited for the first time! At 4pm we had a preview with invited important people and this included the lab group and our collaborator Melissa Mather. It was all very inspirational! Alex Bhatti, Jacob Reed, Mel Mather, Me Janet Shipton hanging the paintings.