I spent this morning at Sir William Borlase school in Marlow, talking about career paths in biomedical research. The second session I gave went intriguingly off course, with a fifteen minute discussion of the implications of genome sequencing. A very enjoyable day and some excellent students.
Now available on the BioRxiv website, Demis Kia and our collaborators across at UCL have put together a paper stratifying genes implicated in Parkinson’s by genome wide association studies. Really interesting combinatorial approach (using a range of bioinformatic techniques, including Claudia’s PINOT pipeline), which is helping us make sense of the complexity surrounding genetic risk for Parkinson’s. Read all about it on the link below:
Just up on the Conversation website, Alastair Noyce, Sally Bromley and I have put together a short piece on some of the symptoms that people who develop Parkinson’s experience ahead of developing problems with their movement. There has been a lot of new research in this area over the last 10-15 years, and we are beginning to gain a deeper understanding of the changes that are happening in the brains of people with Parkinson’s. Read all about it here:
https://theconversation.com/parkinsons-four-unusual-signs-you-may-be-at-risk-112035
And here are Nikoleta and Eloise from the lab with their posters from today’s symposium.
Lots of interesting talks and posters at the University of Reading School of Pharmacy PhD showcase – this is James from the lab raising a glass to the PINOT protein interaction web tool that he and Claudia Manzoni in the lab have developed.
The University communications team have put together a short video where I talk a little bit about why engaging beyond academia is so important for my research. Watch the video on the link below:
Just online from James in the group, paper in Stem Cell Research and Therapy – James’ contribution was applying the protein network interactome approaches that he has been developing as part of his PhD – read all about it on the link below:
https://stemcellres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13287-019-1213-1
For the past few years I have been visiting Esher College (an A level college, unsurprisingly located in Esher) to talk about Parkinson’s disease to the students studying A level biology.
I was there again today, and as usual was very impressed by some of the excellent questions from the students.
I’m attending a really interesting meeting here at the University of Reading, looking at how to integrate open research practices into academic life. Really interesting, and really important.
I am in Lisbon today, attending the IPDGC meeting where we are discussing the genetics and functional genomics of Parkinson’s. Some very exciting data, including more analysis of the latest GWAS study – available at BioRxiv, link below:
The Lewis Laboratory 