The University of Glasgow
Centre for the
Cellular Microenvironment
Blog written by PhD, Mariana Azevedo Gonzalez Oliva: ‘I recently had the opportunity to visit Dr. Sirio Dupont’s Mechanobiology Laboratory [1] in the Department of Molecular Medicine in Padova, Italy. My PhD project focuses on the role of the transmembrane mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 in the transduction of viscoelastic cues to the cell nucleus. This …
The CeMi has gained a new member of the team! Welcome to Laura Sabio Rodríguez who will be working with Profs Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez and Massimo Vassalli. If you see Laura around the lab, say hi! Here is some blurb on our new CeMi member: ‘My full name is Laura Sabio Rodríguez, I come from Granada …
We would like to warmly welcome our new cohort of PhD students and visiting researcher, Belen. We look forward to having you as part of the team and see you achieve great things with your research projects! Belen Parra Torrejón, a visiting PhD student from University of Granada (Spain) is on an EMBO Fellowship and …
The CeMi is happy to welcome it’s newest members to the team! Dr Miguel Pineda, Dr Donata Iandolo and Dr Lluis Oliver Cervello! Miguel joins us a new Lecturer, moving to the CeMi from the School of Infection and Immunity: ‘I was originally trained in pharmaceutical sciences, and a Versus Arthritis Career Development Fellowship gave …
Congratulations to two of our PhD students, Yinbo Xiao and Sara Bartlome on being awarded funding from the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) Feasibility fund! Read more about the projects below: Sara Bartlome My project is looking to compare the effect of two differing populations of mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (MSC-EVs) on breast cancer …
Welcome to Camilla, who is joining us as a new PhD student from Italy, working with Dr Massimo Vassilli in School of Engineering. Camilla graduated in Biomedical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, where she then concluded a Master in Biomechanics and Biomaterials. During her Master, she developed a strong interest in cellular biomechanics and …