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* January 2017: The Developmental Biomechanics group grows again- a big welcome to postdoctoral researcher [http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Cristian_Parisi.2C_Postdoctoral_Researcher Cristian Parisi] who joins us from King's College London, and who will be continuing on Vikesh's work on in vitro mechanostimulation of developing limbs. | |||
* December 2016: The Developmental Biomechanics group enjoyed a fun Christmas lunch in South Kensington! [[Image:Christmas2016_Nowlan.jpeg|350px|right|Christmas lunch]] | |||
* December 2016: Welcome [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Aurelie_Levillain.2C_Postdoctoral_Researcher Aurelie Levillain], new postdoc in the group, working on development of the spine. Aurelie joins us from University of Lyon. | |||
* October 2016: Congratulations to Vikesh, whose paper entitled "Characterising the effects of ''in vitro'' mechanical stimulation on morphogenesis of developing limb explants" was accepted by the Journal of Biomechanics. Check it out [http://www.jbiomech.com/article/S0021-9290(16)31017-X/fulltext?rss=yes here] | |||
* August 2016: A fond farewell to Rebecca who has taken a position at Trinity College Dublin. We wish her all the best in her new role! | |||
* July 2016: Two collaborative papers just published this month, the first a collaboration with [http://www.bme.udel.edu/megan-killian/ Megan Killian] from the University of Delaware which was published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, and the second a review paper with clinical collaborators led by [http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.lees Christoph Lees]. Check out the JOR paper [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jor.23361/abstract here] and the review paper [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aogs.12944/full here]. | |||
* July 2016: The Developmental Biomechanics Lab now tweets! [https://twitter.com/NiamhNowlan Follow us] | |||
* July 2016: Stefaan and Niamh gave presentations at the European Society of Biomechanics in Lyon, France. | |||
* May 2016: Congratulations to Stefaan, who was awarded the Best Poster Award at the [http://insigneo.org/events/the-insigneo-showcase-2016/ INSIGNEO] Showcase in Sheffield! | |||
[[Image:Stefaan_SET_for_Britain.jpg|200px|right|SET for Britain]] | |||
* March 2016: Stefaan was shortlisted for the SET for Britain Awards, at which early career researchers present their work to MPs at Westminster. Well done Stefaan! | |||
* March 2016: Rebecca presented a poster at the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) meeting in Florida (in Disneyworld!). Her abstract was entitled "Mechanical stimulation is required for normal spinal curvature and vertebral segmentation in the developing chick". | |||
* December 2015: The Developmental Biomechanics group celebrated Christmas with a pub lunch at our local, The Queen's Arms. [[Image:ChristmasDinner2015.JPG|350px|right|Christmas lunch]] | |||
* November 2015: Stefaan's paper, entitled "Modeling the biomechanics of fetal movements" has been published in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. Former project student Jessica Loo is also an author on the paper. Read the exciting work at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link! | |||
* October 2015: Welcome to new PhD students [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Devi_Bridglal.2C_PhD_Student Devi Bridglal] and [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Paraskevi_.28Vivien.29_Sotirious.2C_PhD_Student Vivien Sotiriou], both former Masters students in the group! And we wish a fond farewell to Zuheir, who finishes his MRes this month. | |||
* September 2015: The group marked the end of the summer with a yummy pizza lunch at Franco Mancas- even though the weather wasn't good enough for a picnic, we still managed to dine 'al fresco'! Wishing all the best to our five UROP students (4 shown below on left, from left: Jason, Thisara, James and Aidan (Sajni not in picture)) as they return to their studies soon. | |||
[[Image:UROPs_2015.jpg|230px|left|2015 UROPs]] [[Image:SummerLunchSept2015a.jpg|230px|middle|Summer Lunch]] [[Image:SummerLunchSept2015b.jpg|230px|right|Summer Lunch]] | |||
* September 2015: UROP student James Bezer did Imperial proud in captaining the Imperial College Team in Round #1 of University Challenge- best of luck for future episodes James! | |||
* September 2015: Devi, Niamh, Rebecca, Stefaan, Vikesh and Zuheir all attended MEIBioeng 15 [[Image:Vikesh_Sept2015.jpg|150px|right|Vikesh Poster]] in Leeds. Congratulations to Vikesh, who was awarded a prize for his poster ! | |||
* September 2015: Niamh gave an invited talk at the joint meeting of the Bone Research Society and the British Society for Matrix Biology, in Edinburgh as part of the Muscle and Bone workshop. The talk was entitled "The Importance of Muscle Contractions for Prenatal Skeletal Development". | |||
* July 2015: Stefaan & Mario presented their research at the European Society of Biomechanics [[Image:Prague_2015.JPG|150px|right|Prague 2015]] from July 3rd to 5th in Prague. In between the presentations and posters, there was time to see some of historic Prague! | |||
*July 2015: Welcome to UROP student Jason Lee, who is an undergraduate student in the Department of Bioengineering. | |||
* July 2015: Work from Mario's PhD thesis has been published in the Journal of Biomechanics. The paper, entitled "Effects of normal and abnormal loading conditions on morphogenesis of the prenatal hip joint: application to hip dysplasia", is available at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link. | |||
* July 2015: Welcome to summer UROP students Aidan Acquah and Thisara Niriella, both Department of Bioengineering undergraduate students. | |||
* June 2015: Welcome to summer UROP students James Bezer, who joins us from the Physics Department at Imperial College, and Sajni Shah, who joins us from Mechanical Engineering also at Imperial College. | |||
* June 2015: Niamh has been awarded a Departmental "Lecturer of the Year" Award! [[Image:NNowlan_June2015.jpg|130px|right|Teaching Award]] | |||
* June 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. | |||
* April 2015: The group welcomes [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Rebecca_Rolfe.2C_Postdoctoral_Researcher Rebecca Rolfe], who joins us this month as postdoctoral researcher, working on the importance of fetal movements for spine development as part of the recently awarded Leverhulme Trust Project Grant! | |||
* April 2015: Huge congratulations to Mario- soon to be Dr Giorgi- who has passed his PhD viva! Some pictures of the celebrations below! | |||
[[Image:Marioviva1c.JPG|350px|left|Viva celebrations]] [[Image:Marioviva2c.JPG|350px|right|Viva celebrations]] | |||
* March 2015: Niamh presented a talk this month at the ORS 2015 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, USA. The talk was entitled "The Role of Mechanical Loading in the Prenatal Hip" and was part of a workshop entitled "Hip Evo Devo: Adaptation of the Hip in Phylogeny and Ontogeny", organised by Dr Sandra Shefelbine. Mario also had a poster on display at the conference entitled "The Role of Prenatal Movements in Promoting Postnatal Hip Joint Stability". | |||
* 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: 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: Mario has been shortlisted for the ESB Student Prize, the final for which will take place at the WCB in Boston. Good luck Mario! | |||
* April 2014: Vikesh and Mario's abstracts were both accepted for oral presentations at the World Congress of Biomechanics, which will take place in July in Boston, USA. | |||
* April 2014: Hannah Thompson won a poster prize for her poster entitled "How does movement affect skeletal development?" at the recent Musculoskeletal Technology Network Event. Well done Hannah! | |||
* April 2014: [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Samantha_Martin.2C_Research_Technician Samantha Martin] has joined the Developmental Biomechanics lab as a full time research technician. Welcome Samantha! | |||
* March 2014: Suzie and Hannah have completed their MRes project in the Developmental Biomechanics Lab, and we wish them every success in their next rotation! | * March 2014: Suzie and Hannah have completed their MRes project in the Developmental Biomechanics Lab, and we wish them every success in their next rotation! | ||
* February 2014: Another new paper from the Developmental Biomechanics Lab has been accepted for publication. The paper entitled "Immobilised chicks as a model system for early-onset developmental dysplasia of the hip", published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research (JOR) is available at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link. | * February 2014: Another new paper from the Developmental Biomechanics Lab has been accepted for publication. The paper entitled "Immobilised chicks as a model system for early-onset developmental dysplasia of the hip", published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research (JOR) is available at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link. | ||
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* November 2013: A new paper from the Nowlan lab is to be published in the Journal of Anatomy and is currently available on early view- read the paper at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link. | * November 2013: A new paper from the Nowlan lab is to be published in the Journal of Anatomy and is currently available on early view- read the paper at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link. | ||
* October 2013: The Lab welcomes MRes students; | * October 2013: The Lab welcomes MRes students; Susana Ramos and Hannah Thompson, both from the MRes in Biomedical Research. Susana and Hannah will be doing a research project in the lab from October to March 2014. | ||
* September 2013: Welcome back to [[Nowlan:People#Vikesh_Chandaria.2C_PhD_Student|Vikesh Chandaria]], who returns to the Developmental Biomechanics Lab for his PhD! | * September 2013: Welcome back to [[Nowlan:People#Vikesh_Chandaria.2C_PhD_Student|Vikesh Chandaria]], who returns to the Developmental Biomechanics Lab for his PhD! | ||
* September 2013: The Developmental Biomechanics Lab waves goodbye to Pyry and wishes him the best for the third year of his degree. | * September 2013: The Developmental Biomechanics Lab waves goodbye to Pyry and wishes him the best for the third year of his degree. | ||
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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! | ||
* September 2012: Mario and Niamh both presented talks at Bioengineering 12, held in Oxford from 6-7th September. Mario's talk was entitled "Influence of Mechanical Forces on Joint Morphogenesis" and Niamh's talk was entitled "Prenatal Movements are Essential for Normal Joint Morphogenesis" | * September 2012: Mario and Niamh both presented talks at Bioengineering 12, held in Oxford from 6-7th September. Mario's talk was entitled "Influence of Mechanical Forces on Joint Morphogenesis" and Niamh's talk was entitled "Prenatal Movements are Essential for Normal Joint Morphogenesis". | ||
* Mar 2012: Niamh was part of the winning team at the Imperial College Big Science Pub Quiz! See [http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/blog/reporter/2012/03/30/channel-4-and-nature-triumph-at-imperial%E2%80%99s-second-big-science-pub-quiz/ here] for the Imperial College 'Reporter' feature on the quiz, and check out a photo of the winning team [http://www.flickr.com/photos/23120052@N02/7029140439/in/set-72157629336271394/ here]. | * Mar 2012: Niamh was part of the winning team at the Imperial College Big Science Pub Quiz! See [http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/blog/reporter/2012/03/30/channel-4-and-nature-triumph-at-imperial%E2%80%99s-second-big-science-pub-quiz/ here] for the Imperial College 'Reporter' feature on the quiz, and check out a photo of the winning team [http://www.flickr.com/photos/23120052@N02/7029140439/in/set-72157629336271394/ here]. | ||
* Mar 2012: The Developmental Biomechanics Lab webpage has gone live! | * Mar 2012: The Developmental Biomechanics Lab webpage has gone live! |
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