The University of Glasgow
Centre for the
Cellular Microenvironment
In December we held a mini-GLORI symposium, bringing together the Centre and colleagues from the NHS, listening to a range of talks from our talented students. The talks ranged from bioengineering 3D microenvironments to study mechanotransduction and vascularization in bone regeneration; current research on the Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation Project from Simon Clarke, new Clinical …
Claire, Virginia & Sofia took their ‘Materials Matter’ activities to The Forge Shopping centre as part of the annual Explorathon Extravaganza event. With over 200 kids and adults through the door of the busy shopping centre, the public had a choice of activities from feeling inside the mystery box for soft & hard tissue, feeling …
On Wednesday 1st July, the CeMi held its first Symposium focusing on the translation of academic research. This one-day event had a range of speakers from academia and companies, as well as a keynote talk by Professor Jeffrey Hubbell from University of Chicago, titled: Engineering the matrix – from regeneration to cancer immunotherapy. The day …
Hi, I’m Sara. Last week I attended the 6th International Symposium Interface Biology of Implants that was held in Rostock, Germany. I travelled for the first time to Warnemünde, which is a beautiful fishing village located on the Baltic Sea in Rostock. This symposium is organised every 3-4 years and the invited speakers are always …
“Sawasdee khrap”, I’m Wich, I’m currently a member of staff of the department of Orthopedics, Faculty of medicine, Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Thailand, and I’m studying for a PhD at the Centre for Cellular Microenvironment (CEMI), Institute for Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology (ICMSB), University of Glasgow. Recently, I attended the Anglo-Thai Society Educational …
Last Saturday some of us went to IKEA Braehead Glasgow for the exciting ‘at home with life sciences‘ outreach event. Most of the public not expecting us and the amount of people at IKEA made this event rather special and a lot of fun. Some of us went there as CeMi to talk about our work in bone …