Lisa's Lab Book

MiP2019/MitoEAGLE meeting Belgrade, Serbia October 13th-16th 2019 Another great meeting. Lovely to see familiar faces and new ones. Great Mitoconversations. Excellent city, hosts and programme (and weather!). A meeting where all feel welcome, juniors to crumblies - we were all there!

Cycle to work day was last Thursday...and I duly cycled to work and back again. As I do most days. My workplace activities require mental workouts on a daily basis. However, except on the days when I clear the diary and make it into the lab, the physical side of a work day is sitting on a chair in front of a couple of screens. So cycling in and home again allows me to balance daily mental and physical exertion a little better. Last year and again this year I tried to get the campus involved in cycling to work. Our campus is in a rural location with very few public transport links. Most people must drive or take the University shuttle from the main city campus. So, I feel very fortunate to have found a relatively low traffic route from door to door. The scenery along the way is of the English countryside, horses in fields, cattle and sheep out grazing, very lovely. In the winter months it is often very dark with unlit roads making the experience meditative in a very different way. S...

  Register for our Our Drug RepurposingMeeting A fully interactive meeting with an excellent line-up of invited speakers to join those selected from your submitted abstracts Janet Thornton (European Bioinformatics Institute, England)   Pankaj Agarwal (GSK, USA)  Heather Mortiboys (University of Sheffield, England) Eric Brown (McMaster University, Canada)  Martin Zeidler (University of Sheffield, England)  Rebecca Fairclough (AstraZeneca, England)  Farhat Khanim (University of Birmingham, England)  Darren Flower (Aston University, England)  Sieu Tay (Quotient Sciences, England) Bettina Schock (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 18-19 November 2019 IET Birmingham: Austin Court Abstract deadline:  18 September 2019. Earlybird registration deadline:  18 September 2019. Drug repurposing represents a promising approach to find new ...

Here is our team from the Versus Arthritis - Cancer Research UK 'Modulating Immunity' Sandpit.