{"id":968,"date":"2023-01-09T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/gel\/?page_id=968"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T10:10:11","slug":"winter-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psyc.bbk.ac.uk\/gel\/news\/winter-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Upcoming events: STRIDES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our\u00a0Series to Tackle Racism in Developmental Science (STRIDES)<\/a>, will have its first event on the 12th of January, with prof. Heidi Mirza\u00a0discussing how to fight racism in academia.\u00a0The STRIDES events are funded by the Wellcome\/Birkbeck ISSF, with their aim being to reflect on how to improve racial diversity and support anti-racism in developmental science. STRIDES is run by Dr Anna Gui (GEL lab), Prof Angelica Ronald (GEL lab) and Dr Maheen Siddiqui (CBCD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viva success from Dr Chloe Austerberry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to GEL lab PhD student Chloe Austerberry, who passed her PhD viva on 6th<\/sup> December! The title of her PhD was \u2018Using Genetically Informative Family Data to Examine the Early Development of Complex Traits\u2019 and she was supervised by Prof Ronald of the GEL lab and Prof Fearon at UCL. Chloe is now working at the University of Cambridge as a research associate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

London Genetics Network annual meeting on 2nd December 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December, the London Genetics Network held their third annual meeting<\/a> \u2013 this time in person at Birkbeck. \u00a0The London Genetic Network was founded by Professor Angelica Ronald, director of the GEL lab, and Professor Karoline Kuchenbaecker (UCL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma Meaburn from the GEL lab was invited to sit on the judging panel for the ECR flash talks. She discusses below\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I attended the London Genetics Network annual meeting in early December and was delighted to be invited to join the Early Career Flash talks awarding panel.\u00a0 The panel was comprised of myself, Professor Cathy Fernandes (KCL) and\u00a0Professor Damian Smedley (QMUL). There was a total of 15 3-minute talks from ECRs working in complex and rare genetics, from a variety of research areas including infant traits, cardiovascular disease, and Fetal Haemoglobin traits (to name a few!).\u00a0 It was an incredibly hard task!\u00a0 We were impressed with the scientific content, scope and communication skills of all the speakers. After some healthy discussion, we were thrilled to nominate Sonja Ning Tang (Complex traits), Catherine Huntley (Rare diseases) and Oyesola Ojewunmi (Rare Diseases) for awards, and they were each awarded a\u00a0\u00a3100 Waterstones book token \u2013 and just in time for Christmas!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blog: Summer internship project about motor activity and ADHD genetic liability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hattie O\u2019Rourke, a psychology undergraduate student at Birkbeck, has been working on a research project with Dr Emma Meaburn looking at the relationship between activity in infancy and genetic liability for ADHD. Originally, this project was designed for the Genetics Society\u2019s Summer internship programme but after an unsuccessful application, Hattie and Emma decided to go ahead with the research anyway. Hattie has written a short blog about her experience and the research which you can find here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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