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Previous Meetings of the UK Platelet Group

Year	Group	Location	Organiser
2017	UK Platelet Group & 1st Italian-UK Platelet Meeting	Bath	Dr Giodano Pula
2016	Join BSHT/UK Platelet Group/AiP Meeting	Leeds	Prof Robert Ariens
2015	15th UK Platelet Group Meeting	Leicester	Prof Alison Goodall
2014	European Platelet Summer School	Reading	Pro Jon Gibbins
2014	Joint BSHT/UK Platelet Group/UKHCDO	Edinburgh
2013	14th UK Platelet Group Meeting	Birmingham	Prof Yotis Senis
2012	Joint BSHT/13th UK Platelet Group meeting	Bath
2011	12th UK Platelet Group Meeting	Nottingham	Prof Stan Heptinstall
2009	Joint 11th UK Platelet Group/French meeting	Toulouse
2008	10th UK Platelet Group meeting	Bradfrd	Prof Khalid Naseem
2007	9th UK Platelet Group/1st Netherlands Platelet Group meeting	London
2006	8th UK Platelet Group meeting	Reading	Prof Jon Gibbins
2005	UK Platelet Summer School	Birmingham	Prof Steve Watson
2005	7th UK Platelet Group Meeting	Dublin
2004	6th UK Platelet Group Meeting & 2nd UK-Japan Platelet Conference	Oxford
2003	No meeting because of ISTH Congress in Birmingham
2002	5th UK Platelet GRoup Meeting	Nottingham
2001	UK Platelet Summer School	Birmingham	Prof Steve Watson
2001	4th UK Platelet Group meeting	Cambridge
2000	3rd UK Platelet Group Meeting	Bristol
1999	2nd UK Platelet Group Meeting	Leicester
1998	1st UK Platelet Group Meeting	Oxford	Prof Steve Watson

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The Platelet Society

4 hours ago

Platelet Society Members and UK platelet researchers attended the 4th EUPLAN meeting in Bruges in September 2018.

Read the report by Dr Sarah Jones, (Manchester Metropolitan University) which details the focus of the meeting & an overview of the talks. The meeting was a great success!

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The Platelet Society was celebrating success.

3 days ago

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 thesis 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. of Birmingham) and Monica Arman (U. of Hull).

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1 week ago

One of our Platelet Society members, Dr Amanda Unsworth, is chairing the next Gordon Research Seminar on the Cell Biology of Megakaryocytes & Platelets. The meeting 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, Texas, United States.

The focus of this meeting is to bring together our understanding of the processes involved in the development of the megakaryocyte and platelet cell lineage and how these cells can contribute to health and disease. Submission of abstracts covering work from a range of topics including but not limited to megakaryocyte lineage development, platelet signalling, the role of platelets in disease and immunity, new therapeutic approaches to diseases involving the megakaryocyte and platelet lineage and new techniques to investigate platelet and megakaryocyte function are all welcome.

The deadline for abstracts to be considered for an oral presentation is November 23, 2018. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. The final deadline for applications for this meeting is January 26, 2019.

Further information can be found on our News Page:
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2 months ago

Platelet Society 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;Skirting Science is an award-winning event organised by Soroptimist International, that aims to inspire the next generation of female scientists. They delivered a workshop that provided a hands-on experience of being a research scientist.

BHF Supporters’ Event, University of Birmingham:

Gayle Halford and members of the Birmingham Platelet Group organised an event for regional BHF Supporters; the day kicked off with various talks, then Supporters were taken on laboratory tours, experienced and interacted with two major forms of cardiac assessment – cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cardiopulmonary exercise testing, and were given the chance to look down microscopes at cells, learn to pipette and play some fun games.

Further details can be found on our website: plateletsociety.co.uk/news/outreach-events-run-by-platelet-researchers/ ... See MoreSee Less

Outreach events run by platelet researchers – The Platelet Society

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Congratulations to Andreas Wersäll, PhD student of Professor Alastair Poole at the University of Bristol, passed his PhD viva in May and graduated in July.

Andreas also had his PhD paper published: “Mouse Platelet Ral GTPases Control P-Selectin Surface Expression, Regulating Platelet–Leukocyte Interaction”: www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/ATVBAHA.117.310294

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Mouse Platelet Ral GTPases Control P-Selectin Surface Expression, Regulating Platelet–Leukocyte Interaction | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

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