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Loke CTR members Andrew Sharkey, Ashley Moffett and Francesco Colucci were recently awarded an MRC Grant investigating how interactions between maternal uterine NK cells and fetal trophoblast cells

30 August 2016

Loke CTR members Andrew Sharkey, Ashley Moffett and Francesco Colucci were recently awarded an MRC project grant. This award will allow them to continue their research investigating how interactions between maternal uterine NK cells and fetal trophoblast cells regulate placental development. Genetic and functional studies...

Imagine a world without borders: animmunologist’s thoughts on Brexit by Dr Francesco Colucci

30 August 2016

“Imagine a world without borders: animmunologist’s thoughts on Brexit” Dr Francesco Colucci http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.15252/embr.201643019/full

Francesco Colucci and Ashley Moffett awarded a Welcome Trust Joint Investigator Award

10 May 2016

King,s Fellow - Professor Ashley Moffett and Dr Francesco Colucci have jointly received an Investigator Aware from the Wellcome Trust. http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/2016/moffett-colucci-award.html

Romina Plitman's three-dimensional modeling of human placental terminal villi

10 May 2016

Romina Plitman, along with other members of the Loke CTR has recently published a paper on Three-dimensional modeling of human placental terminal villi . Placental transport is the main factor affecting the health and development of the fetus. Due to the placenta's geometrical and mathematical complexity, the structure-...

New publication for Peter Rugg-Gunn!

5 May 2016

Peter et al's paper The pluripotency factor Nanog regulates pericentromeric heterochromatin organization in mouse embryonic stem cells was recently published in Genes and Development. This research, led by the Babraham Institute with collaborators in the UK, Canada and Japan, has revealed a new understanding of how an open...

Wolf Reik co-authors paper reporting a single cell method for parallel sequencing of the transcriptome and methylome

25 April 2016

Parallel single-cell sequencing links transcriptional and epigenetic heterogeneity Wolf Reik et al report scM&T-seq, a method for parallel single-cell genome-wide methylome and transcriptome sequencing that allows for the discovery of associations between transcriptional and epigenetic variation. Profiling of 61 mouse...

Mick Elliot's paper on oxidative stress and the evolutionary origins of preeclampsia

25 April 2016

Risk of preeclampsia in humans results from a failure of apes to evolve an epitheliochorial placenta

Kathy Niakan, former CTR NGF, named on Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list

21 April 2016

Kathy has begun to apply the technique for editing the genome that Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed, called CRISPR, to study the effects of genes in human development. Well done Kathy!

Funding award for CTR Graduate Student Iva Filipovic

18 April 2016

Iva Filipovic was awarded funding for the 5th flowcytometryUK meeting taking place in Leeds in July 2016. The funding covers both registration and accommodation and this funding was limited to a maximum of three applicants from UK. Dr Leonore Herzenberg, who developed the Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS)...

Jorge Lopez-Tello, from the Sferruzzi-Perri lab, recently won an Imanova Best Speaker Prize!