UK based platelet researchers, including members of The Platelet Society, attended the recent Gordon Research Conference on the Cell Biology of Megakaryocytes and Platelets in Galvaston, Texas. In addition, Dr Amanda Unsworth of Manchester metropolitan Unversity, was the chair of the Gordon Research Symposium, a 2 day focused meeting for ECRs that ran before the […]
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Initial details of the 2019 Platelet Society Meeting have been posted to the events page. Further details will be sent our soon, but in the meantime, put the date in your diary. Don’t forget that members of the Platelet Society will receive a discount on registration! https://plateletsociety.co.uk/event/platelet-society-meeting/
Congratulations go to Abdullah Khan, PhD student at the University of Birmingham with Neil Morgan and Steve Thomas, who passed his PhD viva on the 21st November. His thesis on “Applying CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing and PALM Super-Resolution Microscopy To Investigate Molecular Causes of Inherited Thrombocytopenias” was examined by Dr Markus Bender (University of Wuerzburg) and Prof. […]
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 […]
The Platelets journal recently ran their annual cover image competition which will feature on the cover of the journal for the whole of 2019. Several Platelet Society members entered stunning images, but the final winners were Nathan Eaton and Hervé Falet from the Blood Research Institute (Wisconsin) for their stunning image “Platelet Fireworks”, showing Dnm2-null platelets […]
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 […]
Many congratulations to Jawad S. Khalil, PhD student at the University of Hull with Francisco Rivero and Khalid Naseem, who passed his PhD viva on the 3rd October. His these entitled “A novel interaction of the myosin light chain phosphatase with the regulatory subunits of protein kinase A in platelets” was examined by Dr. Steve Thomas (U. […]
The Gordon Research Seminar on the Cell Biology of Megakaryocytes & Platelets, will be held from 23rd – 24th February 2019, just prior to the associated Gordon Research Conference (GRC) (February 24th to March 1st, 2019) at Hotel Galvez, 2024 Seawall Boulevard, Galveston, Texas, United States. The Cell Biology of Megakaryocytes and Platelets GRS is […]
Platelet researchers have run two recent outreach events to highlight our work to members of the public. Skirting Science, University of Bristol Ingeborg Hers, Samantha Moore & Gail Born at the University of Bristol took part in Skirting Science at Churchill Academy, on 28th June 2018. Skirting Science is an award-winning event organised by Soroptimist […]