We now have two postdoc scholarships open for applications, one in Mohlin lab and one in Hammarlund lab. To apply, follow the instructions in respective pdf!
Mohlin lab: Human pluripotent stem cells to study childhood cancer
Hammarlund lab: Spatial Chemical Mapping of Normal and Transformed Tissue
On the 8th of March, Chris gave a presentation for the Lund Stem Cell Center Next Gen seminar series: “Pseudohypoxic Signalling in the Poly Aneuploid Cancer Cell State Promotes Treatment Resistance”.
Sofie, Stina and Guada attended the GRC Neural Crest and Placodes conference in Tuscany, Italy, last week. Stina was chosen for oral presentation and gave a fantastic talk on our project on MOXD1 in neuroblastoma. Well done!
Yesterday we met for Christmas lunch with the theme of ‘Ugly Christmas sweater’. There were lots of good candidates, but the winner of the prize for ‘most ugly sweater’ was Sinan. He was awarded with a fantastic Christmas ornament!
We also handed out a beautiful trophy to the winner of our internal league for predicting the outcomes in the Men’s football world championship. Stina won this prestigious award, that will of course be handed over to the winner of the next prediction league in upcoming championships.
It was a nice closure to a successful year for TiDE with oral and poster presentations at several conferences, publications and prestigious grants. We’re looking forward to continue this during 2023!
At our TiDE group meeting this week we celebrated the positive outcome from the last grant applications to the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, where Sinan, Guadalupe, Tom and Chris were all awarded! Congratulations!
We also had an excellent and very interesting presentation from invited speaker Joshua Tabh, from Andreas Nord’s lab at Evolutionary Ecology!
The symposium ‘Cancer, multicellularity and complex systems’ was held as planned at the Grand Hotel in Lund, as mentioned in the previous blog post: Symposium ‘Cancer, multicellularity and complex systems’ 5-7 September 2022.
We think the symposium was a great success, and it was such a privilege that magnificent talks and thoughts were mixed in a discussion on the conundrums of cancer and multicellularity!
The symposium was funded by the Royal Physiographic Society and its partners at Lund University Cancer Center, Lund Stem Therapy, Lund Stem Cell Center and the Geological Department.
Below are photos from some of the presentations.
Recently we had a wonderful TiDE party, including both our groups and families. The accomplished Party Planning Committee organized fun games, excellent home-made food and appropriately named wines!
Paula, Sinan and Sofie attended the 5th Paradifference meeting in beautiful Marstrand last week. Sinan gave an excellent presentation that sparked a great discussion of our work and the HIF-2a field in general!
Celebrating summer, two new MSc degrees in the lab (congrats Enrika and Ophélie!), paper submission and grant award notifications to both labs this week 🎉
Yesterday Enrika splendidly defended her MSc thesis “The chick embryo as a model to study the initiation and growth of neuroblastoma”! Congratulations!
Last week we had much appreciated visit by Dr Ken Pienta, Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, to discuss PACCs and speciation events.
Earlier this week we had the pleasure to host a lab exercise for geology students taking the GEOM09 course.
In this lab exercise the students get to test the role of hypoxia for chick development. Before starting a 72h incubation, a group of eggs get small hole in their shell while the control group of eggs are normal.. The students then open up the eggs and measure the number of surviving embryos and the size of the vasculature for living embryos. The students also calculate if the differences are significant.
Want to find out more on what results to expect? Check out our article from last year!
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