What have we been up to?
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What have we been up to? 〰️
Alessia presented her research at the Centre for Musculoskeletal Health Research Showcase.
February 13th 2025
Remi received an ASPIRE Student prize and presented his research at the NSMI Celebrating Research Excellence and Innovation.
February 12th 2025
Remi presented his research at the School of Medicine ASPIRE Research Showcase.
November 27th 2024
Nutcha presented her research at the School of Medicine ASPIRE Research Showcase.
November 27th 2024
Melissa shared our research on metabolism in SMA at the Motor Neuron Diseases: understanding the pathogenic mechanisma to develop therapies (III edition) workshop.
November 8th 2024
Our study is published in Skeletal Muscle.
October 14th 2024
Emad presented his research at the 10th Nuclear Envelope & Chromatin Organisation meeting.
October 3rd 2024
Melissa presented our research at the 16th International Skeletal Dysplasia Society meeting.
September 19th 2024
Our collaboration with ICCARP is published in Geroscience.
August 9th 2024
Aanya presented her research at the RCSI-Bahrain summer research programme end-of-project presentations.
July 30th 2024
Melissa shared her experience at the Academy of Medical Sciences FLIER3 end of Programme / Springboard Induction event.
June 20th 2024
Melissa shared our research at the Cure SMA Family Friendly Poster session.
June 7th 2024
Melissa presented our research at the Cure SMA research conference.
June 5th 2024
Melissa was a keynote speaker at the 4th Scientific International Congress on SMA.
March 15th 2024
We received funding from GOSH Charity.
March 13th 2024
We received funding from Cure SMA.
December 14th 2023
Our study is published in Human Molecular Genetics.
November 8th 2023
Our collaboration with the Raoul group is published in Cellular and Molecular Biology.
October 31st 2023
Our collaboration with the Yáñez-Muñoz group is published in Biomedicines.
October 4th 2023
September 27th 2023
We have been awarded an MRC grant.
September 26th 2023
Özge presented her research at the Ottawa NMD conference.
September 9th 2023
Melissa presented our research at the Ottawa NMD conference.
September 8th 2023
Özge presented her research at the Cure SMA conference in Orlando.
June 29th 2023
Melissa presented our research at the Cure SMA conference in Orlando.
June 28th 2023
Emma presented her Ph.D. research at the Cure SMA conference in Orlando.
June 28th 2023
Our collaboration with the Yáñez-Muñoz group is published in Gene Therapy.
June 15th 2023
Özge presented her research at the Faculty PGR Symposium.
March 15th 2023
Gia was awarded a 2-month summer internship on the DLC AI residency programme in Switzerland.
January 10th 2023
Dr Emma Sutton successfully defended her Ph.D. viva.
December 15th 2022
Our collaboration with UCL GOSH is published in Nutrition in Clinical Practice.
September 13th 2022
We presented our research at the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier.
November 10th 2022
Melissa presented our research at the SMA Europe conference.
October 21st-23rd 2022
Emma presented her research at the SMA Europe Conference.
October 21st-23rd 2022
Özge presented her research at the SMA Europe conference.
October 23rd 2022
We presented our work at the Keele B.Sc. in Bioengineering Lunchtime Seminar Series
October 12th 2022
Özge presented her research at the
Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre Symposiumthe
September 14th 2022
We gave a keynote talk at the SMATHERIA Grand Opening.
September 2nd 2022
We have been awarded an AFM Trampoline grant.
August 30th 2022
Our study is published in Skeletal Muscle.
July 28th 2022
We have been awarded an MDUK proof-of-principle grant.
July 21st 2022
Our collaboration with the 264th ENMC International Workshop is published in Neuromuscular Disorders.
June 17th 2022
We presented our research on BAT at the Cure SMA conference.
June 16th 2022
Emma presented her research at the Cure SMA conference.
June 15th 2022
Katie was awarded an ASPIRE summer studentship.
May 23rd 2022
We presented our research at the Neuroscience Seminar series at Université Paris Cité.
May 12th 2022
Melissa was promoted to Senior Lecturer.
May 9th 2022
We did the Keswick to Barrow walk to raise funds for SMA UK.
May 7th 2022
We held a bake sale to raise funds for SMA UK.
April 29th 2022
Lauren presented her research at the Keele Life Sciences student conference.
April 5th 2022
Emma presented her research at the Keele School of Medicine Bioscience Research Group seminars.
March 23rd 2022
We presented our research at the University of Hertfordshire BRG seminars.
March 23rd 2022
Dr Joe Hoolachan successfully defended his Ph.D. viva.
December 9th 2021
We attended the 264th ENMC workshop on Multi-system involvement in SMA.
November 19th-21st 2021
We presented our research at the MDUK Muscle Matters Seminar.
August 23rd 2021
Our collaboration with the Wood lab is published in Life Science Alliance.
August 13th 2021
Our study is published in JCI Insight.
July 8th 2021
Emma presented her project at the virtual Cure SMA conference.
June 10th 2021
Joe presented his project at the virtual Cure SMA conference.
June 10th 2021
We were invited to discuss the NHS approval of Zolgensma on BBC Radio Stoke.
June 1st 2021
Andrew was awarded an ASPIRE summer studentship.
May 21st 2021
Emma presented at the FMHS PGR Symposium.
May 6th 2021
We presented at the Keele School of Medicine Annual Conference.
April 15th 2021
We have been awarded an AMS Springboard Award.
April 14th 2021
Emma presented at the UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference.
March 25th 2021
Özge presented at the UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference.
March 25th 2021
Our collaboration with the Fischbeck lab is published in Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids.
March 5th 2021
We participated in a Rare Disease Day awareness video.
February 24th 2021
We participated in the NMD4C “Early career forum: path to success!”.
February 23rd 2021
Our review with the Parson lab is published in Brain Sciences.
January 20th 2021
Joe & Emma were part of the COVID-19 testing team for Keele students.
November 30th 2020-January 12th 2021
We presented at the HGNI event: “Being a scientist today – the
invaluable experience of going
abroad!”.
December 3rd 2020
We contributed to the NMD4C Early Career Blog.
November 12th 2020
Our collaboration with the Claus lab is published in Cells.
November 3rd 2020
We presented at the NMD4C/Biogen SMA Academy event.
September 22nd 2020
Our editorial on neurodegenerative diseases is published in Brain Sciences.
September 11th 2020
We presented at the UK SMA Research Conference.
September 10th 2020
Joe & Emma were part of the organising committee of the UK SMA Research Conference.
September 10th-11th 2020
Veer was awarded an ASPIRE summer studentship.
May 11th 2020
Our paper on fatty acid metabolism in SMA is
amongst the top 10% most downloaded papers.
April 30th 2020
Our article on AAV8-Spc5-12-Klf15 in SMA mice is published in Gene Therapy.
March 27th 2020
Our collaboration with the INM Montpellier group is published in Neuroscience.
March 26th 2020
We participated in the IDWGS at Keele.
February 12th 2020
Joe received a fully funded Biochemical Society sponsorship to attend the FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum and FEBS Congress.
January 21st 2020
We were awarded research funding from SMA UK.
November 22nd 2019
We attended the Drug Repurposing conference in Birmingham, UK.
November 18th-19th 2019
We attended the 5th Ottawa International Conference on Neuromuscular Disease and Biology.
October 17th-19th 2019
We attended the MDUK National Conference.
October 12th 2019
We shared our research during the Live TreatSMA SMA Awareness Day.
September 28th 2019
Our review on drug repurposing strategies for SMA is published in Future Neurology.
August 22nd 2019
We shared our research on muscle in health & disease at Soapbox Science, Stoke-on-Trent.
July 6th 2019
We attended the Cure SMA conference in Anaheim, CA.
June 28th-30th 2019
Our editorial on SMA research funding is published in Future Neurology.
June 5th 2019
Zeluleku was awarded an ASPIRE summer studentship.
May 8th 2019
We gave an overview of our SMA research at the MDUK Research and information day.
April 6th 2019
We attended the Myology conference in Bordeaux, France.
March 25th-28th 2019
For British Science Week, we took over MDUK’s Twitter account for a day.
March 14th 2019
We hosted a successful UK SMA Research Day at Keele Hall, Keele University, UK.
January 23rd 2019
Our collaboration with the Fuller lab on SMA and ALS is published in Brain Sciences.
December 4th 2018
We were awarded a research grant from Action Medical Research for children.
November 16th 2018
We were awarded a 4-year studentship from MD UK.
July 18th 2018
We got muddy and pink to raise funds for The SMA Trust.
July 8th 2018
Our manuscript on circadian defects in SMA is accepted for publication in HMG.
June 29th 2018
SMA NEWS TODAY has written a nice article on our recent EBioMedicine paper.
June 11th 2018
Our image of NMJs is highlighted on the homepage carousel of EBioMedicine.
May 29th 2018
Our article is the most viewed over the last few weeks in EBioMedicine.
May 25th 2018
We attended the Muscle Development, Regeneration and Disease conference in Berlin, Germany.
April 22nd-27th 2018
We attended the International Scientific Congress on Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Krakow, Poland
January 25th-27th 2018
Our review on similarities between SMA & ALS is published in European Journal of Medical Genetics.
December 5th 2017