.And just like that, it was almost October 2020.....
It has of course been an eventful, worrying, frustrating and challenging year for everybody, but now seems like a good time to reflect on the events of 2020 so far, and remind ourselves of the many good things happening in and around the lab! In the Autumn of last year, together with Kyra Campbell, Natalia Bulgakova, and Alex Fletcher we hosted a Royal Society Discussion Meeting on the theme of Contemporary Morphogenesis. We had wonderful speakers, and great discussion around the evolution of analysis techniques in traditional developmental biology settings. Our special edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B was published in August, and contains a mix of original research and review articles to accompany the meeting. Philippa successfully defended her PhD thesis right at the beginning of lockdown, and Chris followed with a successful defence in May, both through virtual vivas. Despite the fact we couldn't celebrate these milestones as a group, we are very proud of the new Dr Carr and Dr Derrick. Well done both. Although in person conferences aren't going ahead this year, the scientific community has worked very hard to bring researchers together, and we have been busy 'attending' various meetings, conferences and seminars, including the Genetics Society of America's TAGC conference, the British Society for Matrix Biology autumn meeting (congrats to Chris on winning a prize), the Royal Microscopical Society's Light-sheet conference, and we are looking forward to the upcoming European Zebrafish Meeting. Emily spent some time during lockdown learning some (very!) basic animation to help illustrate our work, and trying to stop her cat gatecrashing every. single. meeting. We are now settling into our new rhythm at the University - seminar series are starting up again in virtual format, lab work is up and running, grant applications and papers are being submitted, and it feels good to look to the future.
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