Congratulations to our most recent Doctor Ingrid Lekk from the Wilson Lab. We are incredibly proud of you! Wishing you all the best for your future!
MSc student Jan wins project prize and is nominated for the Dean's list.
Jan joined the Wilson Lab in October 2016 to conduct his MSc Neuroscience final research project, working with Ana and Gareth to further our understanding of how habenular asymmetries are established in embryonic development.
Jan has recently defended his MSc thesis and we couldn’t be prouder of him! Not only did he graduate with distinction, but also won the prize for the best project and has been nominated for the Dean's List.
Sydney Leaman gets a distinction and the highest mark in his cohort for his project on the role of Mab21l2 in eye formation.
Sydney Leaman is a medicine student who performed his MSc project under the supervision of Leo Valdivia in the Wilson Lab. He studied part of the genetic and molecular events that lead to successful eye development. In particular he focused on the role of Mab21l2, a gene that is essential for eye formation in humans but whose function is unknown. Using the zebrafish model, Sydney tried to unravel the interaction between Mab21l2 and the TGF-β/BMP pathway n viv. Analysing mutant fish he found that ab21l modulates the TGF-β/BMP pathway signalling to regulate the size of the eye. Furthermore, he used Crispr/Cas9 technology to perform sophisticated genome engineering to tag the endogenous ab21l locus.
The information and tools developed by Sydney will illuminate the role of Mab21l2 and will be used for future purification of Mab21l2 in complex with its binding partners. Finding the interactome of Mab21l2 will provide valuable data to understand vertebrate eye development in health and disease
Congratulations Jan & Sydney! We wish you lots of luck and every success in your future career.
Welcome to Asaph Zylbertal who has just joined the Bianco lab.
The image of a mechano-sensory neuron covering the tail fin in a larval zebrafish has been selected as one of the top 100 winning images for the Nikon Small World Competition. The ranking of the selected images will be announced in October so cross your fingers for Kate!
Karin Tuschl wins UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize.
New Bianco lab member!
Poster prize for Joanna
Everyone is talking about it!
The first PhD, hopefully of many, from the Rihel group.
Ingrid Lekk's beautiful CRISPR zebrafish wins a Wellcome Image Award. Well done Ingrid!
Paride Antinucci has joined the Bianco lab and been awarded a prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship!
Joanna's image of reticulospinal cells won the People’s Prize in this year's competition!
The Sir Henry Dale Fellowship has awarded to Elena Dreosti. She will be setting up her new group working on social behaviour at UCL so we can still see her often.
Forget Disneyland the most exciting thing happening in Florida this summer is Ana Faro’s talk at the International Zebrafish Meeting. Sorry Mickey!
Four zebrafish PhD students have spent their summer learning, teaching and eating pasteis de nata on the Advanced Behaviour Technology at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown.
A research image from the Zebrafish Brain Atlas (zebrafishbrain.org) by PhD student Kate Turner is featured in a BBC article on tracking cells in the embryo.
The female sex hormone estrogen reduces sleep disruption in zebrafish genetically designed to help understand autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
A new genome editing method called CRISPR/Cas9 was used to study the role of the transporter in zebrafish and showed that when the SLC39A14 gene is disrupted, there is a build-up of manganese in the brain and impaired motor behaviour similar to that seen in humans
(but failed to bring back any pasteis de nata)
Joanna was awarded a travel grant to attend the Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium in September 2016.