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Congratulations Stacey: Success of the Week!Stacey won the inaugural Coleman Lab Success of the Week award for a technical advance that will help finalise a really interesting paper she is developing. Very well deserved Stacey! We're looking forward to watching this friendly competition develop over the coming weeks.

The last three months saw so many 'hellos' and 'goodbyes' we could hardly keep pace. So here, briefly, is an update.Thank you so much to Rachael and Raquel, who left to pursue new aims in their native USA and Portugal respectively. We look forward to hearing about your future successes and will never forget your input during this highly eventful ye…

Romina Vuono joined the Coleman lab in 2017 working on changes in tau protein after traumatic brain injury. She recently moved to a Lectureship in Biomedical Science at the Medway School of Pharmacy, University of Kent. In addition to some intriguing scientific results, highlights of Romina’s time in the Coleman Lab include her endless enthusiasm f…

Claire Durrant joined the Coleman lab in 2012 (as Claire Harwell) as a summer student and returned in 2013 for a PhD where she developed an organotypic hippocampal slice culture model of Alzheimer’s disease. After completing her PhD in 2016, and her wedding to Simon, Claire expanded on this work as a postdoc, focussing on the causes and consequence…

Christina recently successfully completed her M Phil viva on testing for SARM1-dependent axon degeneration in inflammation models. Many thanks to her examiners Cahir O’Kane, of the Dept of Genetics in Cambridge, and Julia Edgar from the University of Glasgow.  We congratulate her on her success and welcome her further into her studies with a contin…

The Coleman lab retreat 2019 was at St. Margaret's at Cliffe, near Dover. We had open and thought-provoking discussions about what motivates and demotivates scientists, the pros and cons of ambition in research, and how we can maximise efficiency and productivity without causing stress in other areas of our lives. We had a refreshing walk along the…

Rebecca Maynard has joined us for summer placement with the Coleman group We are delighted to welcome Rebecca Maynard for a summer placement with the Coleman group. Between June and August she will contribute to ongoing projects in Wallerian degeneration and Alzheimer's disease. Rebecca has just finished her second year in Biomedical Science at Man…

Congratulations to Olivia and Claire on their recent publicationColeman lab members Olivia Sheppard and Claire Durrant have been studying how inflammation disrupts synapses in brain tissue and what can be done to prevent this. Their work has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation. Inflammation resulting from infection, injury or st…

Experimental Neurology PapersThe Coleman lab and our collaborators have identified the first human mutations in a gene that regulates Wallerian degeneration, a completely preventable pathway of axon degeneration activated in injury and disease. Mutations disrupting the function of NMNAT2 are associated with polyneuropathy with neuropathic pain (ery…

Axon Degeneration Meeting - Loch LomondEleven members of the Coleman group attended the 7th International Workshop on Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Axon Degeneration held at Loch Lomond, Scotland on 11-14th March. This meeting, co-organised by Michael along with Julia Edgar (University of Glasgow), is the most recent in a series of meetings …

Congratulations to Jemeen Sreedharan on being awarded the ARUK David Hague Early Career Investigator Award-2019Congratulations to Jemeen Sreedharan on being awarded the ARUK David Hague Early Career Investigator Award-2019, in part for the work he and his team did in the Coleman group on modelling TDP-43 FTD and ALS pathogenesis in knock-in mice. W…

Congratulations to Mirlinda on winning the Erwin Wenzl Prize.Congratulations to Coleman lab PhD student Mirlinda Ademi who has won the Erwin Wenzl Prize for best Master thesis at an Austrian university. Mirlinda's Master thesis 'The role of lipid peroxidation products in atherosclerosis' in the lab of Christoph Binder won first place in this compet…

Claire wins Clinical Neurosciences Away Day poster prizeClaire Durrant won the poster prize at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences Away Day at the Wellcome Genome Campus with her excellent work modelling Alzheimer mechanisms in organotypic slices. It's becoming a habit - Babraham, ARUK and Clinical Neurosciences prizes for Claire and two wins …

Andrea begins his Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship on 1st November 2018, collaborating with the Coleman, Wade-Martins and Bandmann groups in Cambridge, Oxford and Sheffield. The project studies axon degeneration in Parkinson's disease using a range of methods including primary cultures, iPSC-derived neurons and zebrafish embryos.

Sadly, Maria is leaving us for a new post in student finance administration in the University of Cambridge. Thank you Maria for all the great support you've given the Coleman group and VGB during your time here!