MRC Community Visit to Scotland Edinburgh May 2024
Here’s Jenna presenting our research at the MRC Community Visit to Scotland held at Heriott Watt University in Edinburgh.
FTD UK Cambridge May 2024
We had an amazing time at the Frontotemporal Dementia UK (FTD-UK) meeting in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. Can’t wait to co-organise the meeting next year in Scotland 🏴🌟🤩🌟🏴
NYC May 2024
We had a lovely time in New York catching-up with collaborators including our NIH consortium team Hemali Phatnani, Liam Holt and Ai Yamamoto. We also spent a gorgeous sunny day visiting our fomer PhD student Olivia Rifai, and our Target ALS consortium team member Neil Shneider at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
AD/PD Lisbon Mar 2024
Really enjoyed AD/PD in Lisbon this March. Our Aberdeen Summer Research Scholarship (ASRS) programme student Angus Shorthouse presented a poster at his first scientific conference.
34th International Symposium on ALS/MND Basel Dec 2023
Here we are enjoying the poster session at the annual MNDA meeting in Basel in December. A fantastic meeting and what a beautiful town Basel is in the wintertime.
GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler Training Nov 2023
We have had a great training week with Daniel Blakeway, PhD at NanoString Technologies, Inc. setting up our new GeoMx spatial sequencing machine in the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. We are very lucky to be part of an amazing team of genomics and sequencing specialists (Ewan Campbell, Elaina Collie-Duguid) histology experts (Kristine Roberts, Gillian Milne) and scientists (Holly Spence, Fergal Waldron, Paul Fowler) and so excited for all of the awesome data we will generate with this expertise and equipment. Thank you so much to the Medical Research Council for funding this platform.
Target ALS Consortium Retreat Genoa July 2023
Aptamer use in ALS chat, combined with some fantastic food in lovely Genoa 🇮🇹
SINAPSE Glasgow June 2023
Here we are at the Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Science Excellence meeting in Glasgow 🔬.
AD/PD Gothenburg March 2023
Fantastic meeting in Sweden with talks ranging from basic science to clinical trials and therapeutic applications – and a really cool city too! Olivia won an AD/PD Junior Faculty Award to top it off 🙂
The Team
Here are some of the social highlights from our lab outings over 2021.
The Histology Lab
Here’s Jenna and Olivia loving their histology lives!
St. Patrick’s Day 2022 bunting
Shamrock bunting (with additional hot-cross buns) in the lab to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
ENCALS meeting 2019, Tours, France
Jenna presenting our work looking at the expression of the chaperone clusterin in post-mortem tissue from people with ALS – in the Vinci International Congress Centre. Some fantastic food and wine also, in the gateway city to the Loire valley!
MNDA 29th International Symposium on ALS/MND 2018, Glasgow
Jenna presenting our work performing spatial sequencing on deeply phenotyped post-mortem tissue! A great meeting where over 1,200 delegates attended to hear about progress in research on a number of topics including defining ALS/MND, technology, emerging tissue markers, and clinical support and quality of life.
EMF Hairy Haggis Relay Run for MND Scotland Edinburgh May 2024
What a great day out the Gregory lab had running as a relay team in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Hairy Haggis Relay. The weather was lovely for Holly and Jenna, but poor Tatiana and Fergal got soaked with rain on their legs. Delighted to have raised over £1000 for MND Scotland – thanks to everyone for their support.
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences CNS Research Day Amsterdam May 2024
Jenna had a wonderful time in Amsterdam visiting the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (University of Amsterdam) to present our work at the Neuroscience day. Such great conversations with Anke Dijkstra (and team) about TDP-43 and ALS/FTD spectrum disorders. Also had time for cheese fondue in a renovated traditional farmhouse and cake for breakfast(!) 🌟👌🏻🌟. Many thanks to Anke Dijkstra for the invite.
Target ALS Boston May 2024
We are having a great time at the Target ALS meeting in Boston. It’s such a pleasure to share our work in such a collaborative environment. We are so grateful to Target ALS for funding our consortium to work together with such a great team of researchers.Thanks to Mathew for looking very serious 🙂
24th Annual Packard Centre ALS Research Symposium Baltimore Mar 2024
We have had a wonderful time at the Robert Packard Centre for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. It was such a privilege to share our work and to learn about all of the incredible research going on. Thank you so much to everyone who made it such a special meeting 🥰😎🇺🇸🤓. Many thanks to Jeff Rothstein for the invitation. It was a superb meeting 🙂
3rd European C9orf72 Workshop Munich Feb 2024
Very interesting meeting discussing the latest C9orf72-related research in Munich – Many thanks to Adrian Isaacs for the invitation. It was a great meeting 🙂
Gregory Lab Christmas Lunch Nov 2023
Us enjoying Christmas lunch at Cafe Boheme and some lovely mulled wine at the Aberdeen Christmas Market.
ENCALS Barcelona July 2023
Us enjoying the European Network to Cure ALS meeting with fabulous gala dinner at the Recinto Modernista de Sant Pau – great science in lovely Cataluña!
TargetALS Meeting Boston May 2023
Here’s Jenna talking about TDP-43 aptamers as part of our consortium presentation!
Gregory Lab Highlights 2022
Some of our social highlights from 2022 – great fun!
Paper celebrations
Sep 2022. Lab night out to celebrate our recent paper. Tapas and a celebratory glass of Pedro Ximenez – great fun!
The Lab
Our molecular lab is based in the Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen. This is where the magic happens!
Edinburgh Neuroscience Meeting, 2022
Olivia had a great time presenting her poster at this meeting. Lots of stimulating questions and a great opportunity to chat science!
Picpoul & chips!
Picpoul and chips is our lab tradition for celebrating papers that have been accepted – here we are celebrating our recent paper.