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Meet our Directors: Laura Machesky

17 July 2015

Professor Laura Machesky leads the Migration, Invasion and Metastasis research group at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, UK. The group aims to understand the control and mechanisms of actin assembly in various normal and cancer cells with the hope to understand fundamental aspects of cell movement.

Laura’s defining moment in science happened when looking down a microscope one Saturday afternoon

The benefits of global collaboration

the benefits

7 July 2015

Mirana Ramialison has been able set up her own lab at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute in Melbourne – thanks in part to Development.

Inspiring African scientists

Inspiring African Scientists

7 July 2015

In 2006 Lucia Prieto, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Sadiq Yusuf, a Professor at the Kampala International University, Uganda, met while attending a Neural Systems and Behaviour course in Woods Hole, MA.

Extending opportunities in microscopy

Attendees at the annual course in advanced optical microscopy at the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association - a course supported by The Company of Biologists

7 July 2015

The annual course in advanced optical microscopy at the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association is one of the most important in the world. The ten days are unusual in combining basic training in optics and practical work with optical benches, with an intensive schedule of lectures in topics ranging from bioluminescence to laser physics. Every year microscope equipment exceeding 2 million pounds in value is brought into the Plymouth Lab by the manufacturers and

Building lasting connections

Natalie

19 May 2015

A Travelling Fellowship from Disease Models & Mechanisms gave Natalie Matosin a unique opportunity to join a project within the Schmidt group at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. The project built on the group’s work on the role of mGluR5/Homer1 linkages in animal models of stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders.

This opportunity enabled Natalie not only to collaborate

Promoting global knowledge

7 July 2015

The Japanese Society for Developmental Biologists (JSDB) has long understood the importance of global exchange of ideas and learnings and has been increasing its internationalisation efforts as a result. Today all of the talks at its annual meeting are held in English and incorporate a joint symposium with an overseas developmental biology society.

In 2008, JSDB co-organized its annual meeting with the International Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB). Since 2010, the JSDB has been co-hosting its annual meeting with the

Inspiring regeneration

Inspiring

7 July 2015

A Travelling Fellowship from Development gave Alice Accorsi the inspiration and the means to collaborate in her research into the freshwater gastropod, Pomacea canaliculata.

In the footsteps of Darwin

 

One of the species of Darwin's Finches studied by Danielle, who received a Travelling Fellowship from the Journal of Experimental Biology

7 July 2015

The remote Galapagos Islands provide the ideal opportunity to investigate discrete populations of birds – and Darwin’s Finches are one of the most important and most studied groups of all. However the islands’ isolation makes research there both difficult and expensive.

A Travelling Fellowship from Journal of Experimental Biology gave Danielle Levesque (a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak) the opportunity to join a team of international researchers investigating a specific feature of birds

A learning experience

19 May 2015

Sandra Bermeo, a PhD student at the University of Sydney, Australia took advantage of a Travelling Fellowship from the Journal of Cell Science to visit the laboratory of one of the best known researchers of Mesenchymal Stem Cell (MSC) biology, Professor Moustapha Kassem.

Sandra

At Professor Kassem’s lab, KMEB  in Southern Denmark University Odense, Denmark, Sandra found that colleagues were keen to share their experience, demonstrate techniques and show how they approached experiments. She gained hands-on experience

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