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Gunjan starts her PhD!

Gunjan Katyal is our new Vice Chancellors Research Scholar. She started her PhD on mitochondrial haemoglobin at the begining of October 2018. Gunjan is from India and is taking up a post as resident tutor at University Park Nottingham. We are very excited to have her on board - here she is in front of lab A49, the lab where she will be spending much of the next three years in!

In other news we had our second International Collaboration Fund meeting in October. Dr. Chiara Papetti (University of Padua, Italy) and Dr. Magnus Lucassen (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) both came to Nottingham this time. Several days of research discussions and planning were accomplished - it was an absolute pleasure to have them and to wallow in research talk and ideas with them. Dr. Reinhard Stoger, Dr. Andrew McColl and Dr. Sharon Egan joined us at various points to talk about epigenetics, sticklebacks and other fish!The whole time was so absorbing I didn't manage to remember to take a single photograph - so sorry.
We received samples from the Lucassen and Papetti labs soon after and preliminary data is being generated now. Next round will be Padua in the spring.

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