Her 2022 manuscript published in Cell Stem Cell was awarded the prize of “Publication of the Year” by the German Stem Cell Network. Ruzhy will present the work contained within the manuscript at the Annual Meeting of the GSCN, which will be held in Ulm in September 2023.
Many congratulations to Fenia Fotopoulou. She was awarded the Dirk van Bekkum Award from the International Society for Experimental Hematology for her talk at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society, in New York. Fenia’s work focusses on understanding the mechanisms via which hematopoietic stem cells acquire mutations during aging, and her presentation was judged to be the best student talk in the New Investigator’s Award Session of the meeting.
Congratulations to Jeyan Jayarajan, who has been granted a travel award to fund his attendance at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European Hematology Association in Vienna. He will present work from his PhD studies which examine the effect of co-housing “wildling” mice with laboratory mice on the hematopoietic system. This results in the horizontal transfer of microorganisms and multicellular pathogens that are normally found in wild mice to the experimental mice and represents what we believe is a more physiologic model of infection/colonisation than the direct injection of purified virus/bacteria particles.
Big congratulations to Marleen; our latest PhD student to graduate from the lab. Marleen did a great job at her virtual defense and we were able to celebrate afterwards with a virtual celebration. Special mention to the fantastic Harry Potter themed PhD graduation video that was made by the talented filmmakers in the group. Watch out for it making an appearance at the Oscars! Marleen’s special graduation hat is shown in the attached picture.
Congratulations to Jeyan Jayarajan and Ana-Matea Mikecin, who were both awarded oral presentations at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the European Hematology Association, which takes place on a virtual platform this year. Jeyan will talk about his work on myeloproliferative neoplasms, with a specific focus on the role of Jak2-mutant dormant stem cells in mediating therapy resistance. Matea’s talk will focus on her investigation into the comparative analysis of the functional consequences of hematopoietic stem cell activation from dormancy in response to different external stimuli. In addition, Mick will give an invited talk on the mechanisms of leukemic transformation in the setting of Fanconi anemia.
