Advanced Course in Platelet Research, Murcia Spain: from a new PhD student’s perspective Oriana Colletti (PhD student, University of Birmingham)
External Meetings
Our Colleagues at the BSHT are running their annual Scientific Meeting in Newcastle from the 22nd – 24th January 2025 in Newcastle. Early bird registration closes on the 13th December and it would be great to have Platelet Society members support the meeting. Details on speakers can be found in the flyer or click here […]
BSHT 2022 Meeting report The BSHT Meeting 2022 in Aberdeen was the first in-person meeting to take place in 2 years for the society. Everyone was really happy to be back together and be able to spend time reconnecting with colleagues under ‘near normal’ conference conditions. On Wednesday evening there was an ECR event organised […]
ECTH 2021 Meeting report The European Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ECTH) ran their 2021 meeting on the 14th and 15th October in Ghent, Belgium. Platelet Society members from the University of Birmingham at ECTH 2021 During the meeting, scientists from Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Norway, […]
The International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis have announced the dates and branding for the 2022 congress which will be held in London. Running from the 9th – 13th July 2022, the meeting is set be one of the highlights of the annual meeting calendar. With 4 Plenary speakers and 28 scientific sessions, the meeting […]
The 2019 European Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis was held in Glasgow, UK (2nd – 4th Oct 2019) and included two special Platelet Society sessions for PhD students and early career researchers. The Platelet Society sessions included talks from invited speakers and gave a great opportunity for early career researchers to present their work to […]
Report by Dr Amanda Unsworth, Manchester Metropolitan University The 2019, Gordon Research Conference and its associated Gordon Research Seminar for Early Career Researchers for the Cell Biology of Megakaryocytes and Platelets was held in Galveston, Texas, US (23rd February – 1st March). The GRS was held 2 days prior to the main meeting and consisted […]
Genomics Workshop Cambridge, UK 17th – 19th September 2018 As scientists we are spoilt with the amount of data that we have available to understand biology and how this goes wrong in disease. The scale of the data is, however, enormous, and therefore understanding how to use it effectively is a challenge. A pertinent […]
The 2nd Joint Meeting of the International Society of Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis and the Plasminogen Activation Workshop. Edinburgh 2018 Report by Alex Slater, University of Birmingham The 2018 proteolysis and fibrinolysis meeting was held in Edinburgh and consisted of three and half days of talks and poster sessions. This meeting was focused largely on the […]
4th EUPLAN Conference – Report by Dr Sarah Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University The European Platelet Network recently hosted the 4th EUPLAN meeting (19th-21st September 2018) in the beautiful city of Bruges, Belgium. The meeting focused on platelets in thrombosis and beyond, with keynote lectures on thrombopoeisis, the role of platelets in inflammation and infection, platelet […]