We’re looking for a postdoc fellow that is excited about science, enjoys working in a team, and finds the process of discovery thrilling!
In this project, you will use chick embryos, patient tissue material and omics data to investigate how hotspot mutations in susceptibility genes affect healthy embryogenesis, organ formation and initiation of the endocrine tumor form paraganglioma!
In December, Perrine and Sofie joined a mini-symposium in Vienna for invited groups, discussing how the field jointly can enhance neuroblastoma research by using pluripotent stem cell models. The research presented and discussions were fantastic, and completely focused on collaborative efforts. This is why we are in science!
(The Christmas markets and Austrian punch was a very nice side-effect)
After winning the regional contest, Sofie competed in the national Researchers Grand Prix 2023 final, and won after jury points and votes by the audience! The Grand Prix format is to present your research in under 4 minutes and during that short time convince a jury of 3 people (1/3 of final score) and an audience of 350 high school students and general public (2/3 of final score) that you did the best job.
Read more:
https://fof.se/artikel/sofie-mohlin-ar-bast-i-sverige-pa-att-beratta-om-forskning/
Congratulations to Elina for winning the prize for best poster at the annual Stem Cell Center retreat in Båstad, with the motivation of nice and clear poster, good presentation skills and lots of engagement! Lots of credit also to Stina who designed the poster.
On September 15th, TiDE gathered for an Autumn kick-off starting with a workshop on group dynamics together with external consultant, continuing with games and bbq. The weather was on our side, and it was a great afternoon and evening!
Well actually, Perrine won the (almost as prestigious) TiDE betting competition for FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023. Congratulations!
Last year, Stina won the FIFA Men’s World Cup 2022 betting competition and the trophy has now been passed on to Perrine.
Emma and Anuraag both attended this years ISEMPH conference, in Irvine, California. Anuraag held a symposium titled “Novel Perspectives on Cancer: Ecology, Evolution, and the Environment” and also presented his work he’s done with Sofie and Stina: “Models of Resistance in State-Structured Neuroblastoma Populations”. Emma also gave a talk in this symposium, called “Coping with chemical fluctuations – ancient, fundamental, and possibly lost”.
Lab postdoc Sinan recently had his paper accepted! He scored and analyzed a tissue microarray of tumors from a Swedish cohort of paraganglioma patients. He could see that one of our favourite proteins, HIF-2a, is non-canonically expressed in the cytoplasm in these tumors. He also shows that presence of cytoplasmic HIF-2a functions as a biomarker to better diagnose and characterise patients with virtually untreatable metastatic paraganglioma. The paper includes a protocol for how to include HIF-2a as a diagnostic marker in the clinic, an advancement we hope will aid in tumor classification and choice of treatment regimens.
Congratulations to Sinan and Paula, and to all of us for the opportunity to celebrate (with Kir Royale)!
Congratulations to Philippa, who on the 1st of June successfully presented and defended her MSc thesis, “A human-chick chimera to study neuroblastoma”, receiving the highest grade “Pass with distinction”!
Sofie and Guadalupe were her supervisors and Philippa will now continue working with us as a laboratory assistant, continuing with the project.
On the 31th of May, it was time for Tom to give a presentation for the Lund Stem Cell Center Next Gen seminar series: “Exploring HIF-2 alpha in neuroblastoma”.
On the 5th of April, Elina gave a presentation for the Lund Stem Cell Center Next Gen seminar series: “MOXD1 is a gate-keeper of organ homeostasis and function as a tumor-suppressor in neuroblastoma”.
Big congratulations to Tom for receiving the Cancerfonden 3-year postdoc position! In total, 31 researchers were awarded grants from Cancerfonden during this round, and only 4 others at Lund University.
The title of Toms project: Exploring hypoxia and other mechanisms responsible for neuroblastoma progression.
You can read more here (in Swedish).
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