Stem Cell Glycobiology Lab

Hugely looking forward to this!!! Oh come all yea glyco-fans…. Etc. etc.

Waving!

Ready to go! Hangzhou for the Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences Congress. I’m here talking about all things Replacement and we’ve got a whole UK team including researchers and leaders from Oxford and Cambridge (Ewan Smith talking later on Mole Rats)

Also picking up on the virtual second species work @nc3rs.bsky.social again!

Presentation by Dr Will Reynolds presenting the NC3Rs NAMs strategy

More work from @nc3rs.bsky.social on new approach methodologies (NAMs) and the need for review of regulation and strengthening the relationships between industry and academia

Academic Exchange Meeting on the Theory of Laboratory Animal Welfare

Dr Will Reynolds (ASRU, UK HO)

Information shared from the NC3RS

In Nanjing,China - learning about Chinese regulation of animals in research and sharing best practice from the UK, including many resources from @nc3rs.bsky.social

A glass of orange juice (half full!) on a plane currently looking out over Gatwick airport.

Different beverage, different mode of transport! Off to China then Australia (so… no choice really but to fly). Talking all things animal replacement in China then off to the International Proteoglycans meeting with @brookefarrugia.bsky.social ! Whoop!!!!

So accurate….

Totally fallen in love with Tromsø! Great discussions and enthusiasm for the future!

Good morning Tromsø!

@nottsglycohub.bsky.social and GlycoWeb off to Tromsø to talk collaboration and glycoanalysis!

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Not GAGs?

So…where are we off to today, little coffee and bonus chocolate (present from my daughter)? Off too @c19qmul.bsky.social for their organ-on-chip extravaganza!!! With @peptimatrix.bsky.social buddies

Go Jenny (Dr Jennifer Ashworth)! Fantastic presentation of her group’s work - multi-component characterisation of patient tissue and how to recapitulate this in in vitro models. Excellent work!

And we are off!!! @nc3rs.bsky.social making a meaningful difference. Rapid networking already over coffee. @peptimatrix.bsky.social

Makes me think about our @ukbiofilms.bsky.social group TBH (love you guys, but a bit terrified too)

Just so wrong…. Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone (etc.)

A view over Derby College buildings from the station platform early in the morning with a cup of coffee in the foreground

So… where are me and my coffee off to today? Looking forward to a busy day with @nc3rs.bsky.social and BBSRC talking about business innovation vouchers and how to support engagement between academia and industry to help the transition to animal-free in vitro models.

Data drop! We just released an updated list of anti-ECM antibodies curated from the #HumanBioMolecularAtlasProgram Organ Mapping Antibody Panels #OMAP and the 9th release of the Human Reference Atlas #HRA. Check it out: sites.google.com/uic.edu/matr...

Thank you to the organisers and attendees, this was a great meeting!!!

It was a great day! @nabalabuic.bsky.social @douglaspdyer.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social A great chance for a discussion about how we bring together all our specialities to build a useful matrix atlas - and what that should look like. Matrix assemble!

On my way to London again to work on our interview technique… anyone would think we really, really wanted to do this project!!!!

@corbenmarrs.bsky.social Hello! And thanks for setting up the @nottsglycohub.bsky.social have fun at @aberuni.bsky.social

An eclectic mix x

A graphic showing a map of the UK, with the locations of our public engagement projects funded in 2024 with graphics around the edge illustrating some of the topics and activities.

In 2024 we awarded almost £21k to 13 public engagement projects, reaching 3,000+ people across 17 events. Genevieve Barr explores the projects, from inspiring the next generation of scientists to creating resources for the community to use in their own 3Rs activities: nc3rs.org.uk/news/public-...

Tower in Rotterdam

The (current) Nottingham and Peptimatrix team. A group of men and women smiling on a deck by the river

Two grinning people on a boat

Hugely excited to meet the @mac4me.bsky.social team in Rotterdam for our kick-off meeting. Here with @peptimatrix.bsky.social and a whole interdisciplinary team ’opening new doors in cancer immunotherapy’ www.mac4me.eu

Two men and one woman on a train

Heading off for the www.mac4me.eu kick off meeting (serious stuff…)

I hear you!!!! That’s the only way forward x

I’m hoping the PG community can do this too… I’m worried the GRC are too ’mainstream’ (?) to respond to the issue?

Real shame - particularly as the Italy meeting was a festival of giant leaps forward in understanding as international groups could share ideas x