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* July 2014: Mario was the winner of the European Society of Biomechanics Student Prize- congratulations Mario! | * March 2015: Wishing a fond farewell and best wishes for the future to Tyler Kim, who has completed his UROP project. Tyler did great work getting our research into the developmental biomechanics of the spine up and running. | ||
* January 2015: Funding success for the Developmental Biomechanics group! A Project Grant has been awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to Niamh and to her co-investigators Prof James Iatridis (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA) and Dr Michelle Oyen (University of Cambridge, UK). The grant will run for 3 years and will research the importance of fetal movements for the development of the spine. | |||
* January 2015: A new review paper by Niamh entitled "Biomechanics of Fetal Movement" has been published in the eCM Journal and is available at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link. | |||
* October 2014: Bioengineering MRes students [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Devi_Bridglal.2C_MRes_Student Devi Bridglal] and [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Zuheir_Zaidon.2C_MRes_Student Zuheir Zaidon] join the Developmental Biomechanics group this month. Welcome Devi and Zuheir! | |||
* 6 October 2014: [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Lisa_Abela.2C_PhD_Student Lisa Abela] joins the Developmental Biomechanics group. Lisa's research forms part of an ERC Starting Grant project. Welcome Lisa! | |||
* October 2014: Goodbye to the talented UROP students who were doing research in the lab this summer, and good luck for the coming academic year! Before the UROP students finished up, the entire group enjoyed a picnic in Hyde Park to celebrate a productive summer, as shown in the picture below. [[Image:SummerPicnicHydePark.JPG|350px|right|Summer Picnic]] | |||
* 4 September 2014: [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Stefaan_Verbruggen.2C_Postdoctoral_Researcher Dr Stefaan Verbruggen] joins the Developmental Biomechanics group. Stefaan's research is funded by Arthritis Research UK. Welcome Stefaan! | |||
* September 2014: Congratulations to Mario, who won the best presentation prize at the first joint meeting of the British Societies for Matrix Biology and Developmental Biology (BSMB-BSDB) held in Norwich, 1st-3rd September 2014. Mario's talk was entitled "The role of fetal movement in prenatal hip joint morphogenesis" and his award was sponsored by Orthopaedic Research UK (ORUK). Well done Mario!! | |||
* 28 July 2014: Jessica Loo joins the lab this week for her UROP summer placement. Welcome Jessica! | |||
* 21 July 2014: Cecilia Kan and Daniel Ko join the lab this week for UROP summer placements. Welcome Cecilia and Daniel! | |||
* 14 July 2014: Akalja Logeswaran joins the lab this week for a UROP (undergraduate research opportunities programme) summer placement. Welcome Akalja! | |||
* July 2014: Mario was the winner of the European Society of Biomechanics Student Prize- congratulations Mario! [[Image:Mario_ESB.jpg|150px|right|ESB Award Winner]] | |||
* June 2014: Niamh presented an invited talk entitled "Developmental biomechanics of the prenatal skeleton" at eCM XV: Cartilage & Disc: Repair and Regeneration, in Davos, Switzerland. | * June 2014: Niamh presented an invited talk entitled "Developmental biomechanics of the prenatal skeleton" at eCM XV: Cartilage & Disc: Repair and Regeneration, in Davos, Switzerland. | ||
* June 2014: Mario has been shortlisted for the ESB Student Prize, the final for which will take place at the WCB in Boston. Good luck Mario! | * June 2014: Mario has been shortlisted for the ESB Student Prize, the final for which will take place at the WCB in Boston. Good luck Mario! | ||
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* March 2013: Vikesh sucessfully completed his MRes project in the Developmental Biomechanics lab. Good luck to Vikesh in the second part of his MRes! | * March 2013: Vikesh sucessfully completed his MRes project in the Developmental Biomechanics lab. Good luck to Vikesh in the second part of his MRes! | ||
* January 2013: | * January 2013: Mario and Niamh attended the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society [http://www.ors.org/ (ORS)], where Mario presented a poster on his research. Mario also presented a talk entitled "Fetal Movements Play an Important Role in Joint Shape Morphogenesis" at the [http://www.pre-ors.org/ "pre-ORS"], the 21st Annual Symposium on Computational Methods in Orthopaedic Biomechanics. | ||
* October 2012: Vikesh Chandaria (Mres student) is welcomed to the Developmental Biomechanics Lab! | * October 2012: Vikesh Chandaria (Mres student) is welcomed to the Developmental Biomechanics Lab! |
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