Fay Newton wins a 'Best Poster Prize' at EMBO Cilia2022 in Cologne!
Fay Newton wins a Best Poster Prize at EMBO Cilia2022…
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce our exciting MRC UK National Mouse Genetics Network cluster award 'Congenital anomalies- patient led functional genomics'
We are thrilled to announce our £3.7M MRC National Mouse Genetics Network cluster award on Congenital anomalies- patient-led functional genomics with an incredible team of experts from across the country including Prof. Karen Liu (KCL), Prof. Deborah Henderson (Newcastle), Prof. Nick Greene (ICH, UCL) and Dr. Steve Twigg (WIMM, Oxford).
Read MoreCilia loss, changes in actin cytoskeleton and microenvironment lead to polycystic disease!
We are thrilled to share our latest pre-print on how cilia loss (and cilia-dependent signaling) induces cell-autonomous circuits driving cyst formation in adult liver. No hedgehog involved….
Read MoreEmma and Dhivya's work on roles and requirements for everyone's favorite condensates- centriolar satellites- is now pre-printed!
Check out our new PCM1, centriolar satellite and ciliogenesis pre-print led by Emma Hall (Mill lab) and Dhivya Kumar (Reiter lab).
Read MoreCongratulations Dr Waddell!!
Congratulations Dr Waddell!
Read MoreTooba's paper is accepted to eLife!! 'A WDR35-dependent coat protein complex transports ciliary membrane cargo vesicles to cilia'
A huge congratulations to former PhD ESRIC student Tooba Quidwai as her first-author paper on IFT-A, vesicular traffic and cilia membrane is accepted and available ahead of publication at eLife- https://elifesciences.org/articles/69786
Read MoreWelcome to Mill lab Linda Nguyen, our newest member!
Welcome LInda to MIll lab, our newest PhD recruit from the Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme!
Read MoreHappy Pride Month 2021!
Happy Pride Month 2021!
Read MoreWelcome to Mill lab to Sophie Nakford, our new PhD student!
We are pleased to welcome Sophie Nakford to the lab, as our genome surgery PhD candidate for PCD!
Read MoreWelcome to BSCB Summer Student Melinda Van Kerckvoorde!
Welcome to Melinda, our BSCB Summer Student, who joins Mill lab virtually for the next 8 weeks…. exciting times!
Read MoreCongratulations to Roly for the RSCEd Award!
Another great win for Roly Megaw- awarded a Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh ((RCSed) ) grant! Exciting collaboration with Marc Vendrell @dynafluors (University of Edinburgh) and John Forrester (University of Aberdeen) towards ‘Identifying Therapeutic Targets for Retinitis Pigmentosa by Defining Photoreceptor Cell Death’. Congrats to all!! @mrc_hgu @MRC_IGMM
Read MoreRoly Megaw is awarded a Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship!
We are delighted to announce that our own Roly Megaw has been awarded a Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship!! Exciting times ahead on actin, disc morphogenesis & RP- with a little help from the Machesky, Wensel & Arshavsky labs!
Congratulations Roly- this is a huge achievement!
Pleasantine is awarded a prestigious European Research Council Consolidator Grant
€600 million has been awarded between 301 of Europe’s top scientists, including support for the CiliaCircuits project: December 2019. Congratulations to Dr Pleasantine Mill of the MRC Human Genetics Unit who has been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for CiliaCircuits – a project examining the molecular principles of mammalian axonemal dynein assembly.
Read MoreCongratulations Dr Quidwai!
We are very proud of Tooba Quidwai- an Edinburgh Super-Resolution Imaging Consortium (ESRIC) PhD candidate- who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. Congratulations Dr Quidwai!!
Read MoreJoin us for a 4 year MRC-funded PhD studentship in Human Genetics, Genomics and Disease! →
We have exciting new tools and burning questions to ask about how functional mammalian cilia become potent signaling organelles. We need you! Interested in a PhD using advanced genetics, cell biology and imaging techniques to map where and when these processes occur in cells, and molecularly define these novel structures? Read more here. Applications close ***12th January 2020***
Congratulations Dr Daniel Dodd PhD!!
Daniel Dodd defends his thesis- congratulations Dr Dodd!
Read MoreMill lab goes to Glasgow PCD Family Day 2019: We came. We smushed. We conquered DNA isolation! →
Mill lab hit the road for PCD Family Day 2019. We came. We smushed. We conquered DNA extraction! We also talked genes, genetics & ‘genome surgery’ for rare diseases, like #PCD.
@FraserMcPhie @Dr_PeterTennant @Mill_lab @mrc_hgu @MRC_IGMM @EdinburghUni @PCD_Scotland @PCD_UK
Read MoreCome and join Mill lab in Glasgow for PCD Family Support Day 2019
As part of PCD Awareness Month 2019, Mill lab is on the road to Glasgow for the PCD Family Support Network Family Day 05/10/2019 11:00-16:00!
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