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Vacancy: clean room technician
There is a clean room technician job available at a spin out company in Sheffield. Please follow the link for details:
Post-doctoral vacancies are collected centrally on the University's academic jobs pages.
Kroto research institute Photo competition
This competition run by the Kroto Research Institute at the end of each calendar year is open to all research conducted with the Institute and reflects the range of disciplines including biological sciences, physical sciences, and engineering in this multi disciplinary research centre. The scientific images are assesed for visual impact and an overall winner is selected by Professor Sir Harry Kroto. Publication on the Sciencewords website of the images, each with a brief description, provides a means of communicating the interest of this research to the wider public.
Right: The beautiful structure of iron oxide grown on the surface of a high speed steel. This photo, taken by Nelson Garza, was the winner of the inaugural competition.
Below, link to the ScienceWords website:
CBTE Meeting 2008
Report on one day meeting of Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering 17th January 2008
This was a very lively meeting attending by over 80 people from a range of departments throughout the University of Sheffield. Details of the presentations and the posters can be seen on the website. What was particularly exciting about the day was the wide range of interdisciplinary projects and the informal, friendly atmosphere (and extensive lunch) helped students and staff alike interact to make new contacts. In brief, we learnt:
- how beating up bone cells makes them make more bone
- how you can design stealth vesicles to deliver DNA without the cell realising what's happened
- how anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen and chillis can be anti-cancer agents
- how new chemistry can make better ways of lighting up DNA inside cells
- how pietzoelectricity within our bone might be related to how we increase bone mass during physical exercise
- how the bacteria that do all the interesting things are exactly the ones that we can't culture in the lab but new technology based on raman microspectroscopy can put these bacteria under a bright light and interrogate them
- investigations into the private life of yeast and how they cause tissue damage by attaching to the endothelium and moving into tissues
- how to make a model of oral cancer to find out more about the bad behaviour of cancer cells
- size does matter … if you are a vesicle. This study looked at how to make giant vesicles by electroformation of diblock copolymers
- how can you find what your cell has been up to when its moving around fast on your tissue culture well? Automated tracking of migrating cells was presented
- how to make cells grow in a straight line - the use of aligned polymer microfibres for peripheral nerve repair
- can we use the fluid in the joint (sinovial fluid) to culture the cells that we need to repair the joint? Cartilage repair for trauma and arthritis?
- the development of a polymer that wraps itself around bacteria and pulls them out of solution…
- can we spin a scaffold for skin cells to feel at home in?
- how can we find out what cells are really feeling when they're in 3D tissue?
- a presentation by the Sorby Nano Investigation Centre showing what this Centre can offer in analysis research and development of materials and processes at the micro and nano scale.
- making hydrogels that are sticky for cells
- how do we know what rules cells live by - are they predictable?
- can we see how the collagen fibres are aligned in tendons and cartilage without having to destroy the very thing we're looking at?
- streamlined manufacturing for biomedical applications - how to cut out a lot of stages and come up with sneaky ways of making things in 3D from a computer aided design platform
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The booklet of abstracts from the event is available through the link below:
CBTE Meeting 2008 abstracts
(PDF 366kB)
From molecules to patients - research at the CBTE
This meeting, held in June 2005, provided a review of much of the current research at the centre. This has now been extended and included within the Centre's online research profile:
An introduction to the 2005 meeting, with abstracts to presentations and posters is available through the following link:
Biointeractions Journal Club
The "Biointeractions" Journal Club meetings take place fortnightly on the first and third Tuesday of the month at 4 pm. The Journal Club is held in a Dental School seminar room on the ground floor, and BISCUITS are provided. Please feel free to bring your own tea or coffee.
For those of you who have not yet attended a Journal Club, the format is of an open discussion regarding a paper that has been circulated in advance. The presenter briefly outlines the work carried out and then comments on its strengths, weaknesses and peculiarities. All participants are then welcome to contribute their opinions and ideas to a general discussion.