On the 5th December the Metal Ions in Medicine Group held their inaugural away day in the Gateway Building. On the day there were talks from post-doctoral researchers, PhD students, MSc students and an undergraduate student. Research topics included:
1. The role of zinc in cardiac muscle contraction
2. Fetal and adult circulatory zinc transport
3. The role of cobalt in ALVAL (aseptic lymphocyte-dominated vasculitis-associated lesion)
4. Characterisation of mutations in ATP2C2, a calcium/manganese transporter implicated in dyslexia
5. Biomarker discovery in esophageal adenocarcinoma
Sam and Alan would like to thank all the attendees/speakers for making the day so much fun and also to Dr Juan Varela (School of Biology) for coming along to support!