EASTBIO successfully awarded 6 BBSRC Research Experience Placement awards to excellent undergraduate students to enable them to gain lab experience during the summer months of 2017.EASTBIO students shortlisted at Enviroment YES 2016
Brief report on the experience by Sarah Heath (University of Edinburgh)
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Distinction for three EASTBIO PhD students at the ISAE conference 2016
The International Society of Avian Endocrinology (ISAE) held its quadrennial conference from October 11-14 2016 at Niagara-on-the-lake in Ontario, Canada.
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Research on PIPS as a learning experience
Earlier in October, our PIPS coordinator, Dr Caroline Pope (seen on the right, at the EASTBIO 2015 Impact Symposium in Edinburgh), shared EASTBIO DTP PIPS-based research findings at the 2016 Researcher Education and Development Conference hosted by the University of Sheffield.
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Prestigious honour for two EASTBIO PhD students
The British Society of Neuroendocrinology held its annual conference this year in Glasgow on the 28th-30th August. The conference began with an ESR training workshop covering the latest scientific techniques, science communication and publishing strategies. This was followed by a series of talks and poster presentations from students and scientists from around the world showcasing the latest pioneer
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EASTBIO Induction Day 2016
Registration is now open for the EASTBIO Induction Day 2016 (Dundee, 6 October 2016, 10:00-17:00), welcoming all new EASTBIO PhD students and their supervisors.
Induction will be followed by a day of training - for first-year students only - on 'Statistics and Experimental Design', 7 October 2016, 9:00-13:00.
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Thank you note following the EASTBIO Symposium 2016
A long series of thanks is due to a whole lot of people this year.
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Counting down to our annual Symposium
Final countdown for the EASTBIO Symposium 2016!
If you would like to get a glimpse, why not check out the blog site of our keynote speakers Professor Nicola Clayton and Artist-in-Residence Clive Wilkins, The Captured Thought?
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Publication by second-year PhD student David Walker
Dave Walker, our second-year student rep has a publication out - see more here.
The paper explores the cellular signalling pathways that permit glucocorticoids and insulin to stimulate Na+ transport within cortical collecting duct cells. The authors discovered that both glucocorticoids and insulin regulate Na+ retention via expression of serum glucocorticoid
kinase 1 (SGK1) through two distinct physiological mechanisms.
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PIPS update (May 2016)
EASTBIO DTP PIPS Coordinator, Caroline Pope has recently reported on PIPS.
This is an exciting time for the new 2015 cohort of EASTBIO students. Many have innovative PIPS ideas. The deadline for submitting the ‘PIPS Planning Sheet’ is September 31st 2016. To help with this students are encouraged to
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