7 July 2015

In 2006 Lucia Prieto, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Sadiq Yusuf, a Professor at the Kampala International University, Uganda, met while attending a Neural Systems and Behaviour course in Woods Hole, MA.

7 July 2015

The annual course in advanced optical microscopy at the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association is one of the most important in the world. The ten days are unusual in combining basic training in optics and practical work with optical benches, with an intensive schedule of lectures in topics ranging from bioluminescence to laser physics. Every year microscope equipment exceeding 2 million pounds in value is brought into the Plymouth Lab by the manufacturers and

19 May 2015

A Travelling Fellowship from Disease Models & Mechanisms gave Natalie Matosin a unique opportunity to join a project within the Schmidt group at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. The project built on the group’s work on the role of mGluR5/Homer1 linkages in animal models of stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders.

This opportunity enabled Natalie not only to collaborate

7 July 2015

The remote Galapagos Islands provide the ideal opportunity to investigate discrete populations of birds – and Darwin’s Finches are one of the most important and most studied groups of all. However the islands’ isolation makes research there both difficult and expensive.

A Travelling Fellowship from Journal of Experimental Biology gave Danielle Levesque (a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak) the opportunity to join a team of international researchers investigating a specific feature of birds

19 May 2015

Sandra Bermeo, a PhD student at the University of Sydney, Australia took advantage of a Travelling Fellowship from the Journal of Cell Science to visit the laboratory of one of the best known researchers of Mesenchymal Stem Cell (MSC) biology, Professor Moustapha Kassem.

At Professor Kassem’s lab, KMEB in Southern Denmark University Odense, Denmark, Sandra found that colleagues were keen to share their experience, demonstrate techniques and show how they approached experiments. She gained hands-on experience