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NEXT BRITISH MEIOSIS MEETING WILL BE HELD IN LIVERPOOL!

BMM 2025 will be coming to Liverpool and our lab cannot wait to host the European Meiosis Community!

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DR LOUISE BRENNAN GIVES A FANTASTIC TALK AT THE BRITISH MEIOSIS MEETING

Louise presented the work stemming from her Post-Doc and Elena Sou's PhD in our lab during the British Meiosis meeting in Nottingham

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MRC FUNDED PHD AVAILABLE

Fully funded PhD focusing on cilia, development and cancer is currently advertised in our lab with a deadline of January 13th 2023.

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MRC FUNDED PHD

Generously funded MRC DIEMN scholarship to investigate the role of TEX12 in development. Deadline January 14th 2022.

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 JOINT MEETING OF THE 23RD INTERNATIONAL CHROMOSOME CONFERENCE (ICC) AND THE 24TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN ANIMAL CYTOGENETICS AND GENOMICS (ICACG)

Ula has been invited to present our work at this meeting. Make sure to join us at 9.55pm BST on the 16th of July 2021. Registration is free.

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INTERVIEW WITH ULA

Ula has been profiled by the @NewPICellDev forum. You can hear about her journey to becoming a scientist and about the aims of our group.

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HEAR ABOUT OUR RECENT PROGRESS!

Ula will be giving a seminar at the University of Kent School of Biosciences on the 12th of May at 1pm BST. If you want to hear how meiosis and cancer are connected be sure not to miss it!

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NEW PI IN CELL DEVELOPMENT FORUM

Ula will be hosting Eva Hormanseder at the #NewPICellDev Forum on the 7th of May at 12pm BST. Be sure not to miss it!

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HEAR ABOUT OUR WORK AT THE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS MEIOSIS WORKSHOP 2021

Rebecca will give a presentation showcasing her work on TEX12 biology on the 6th of April. Don't miss it!

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MARCH IS ENDOMETRIOSIS AWARENESS MONTH

You can hear Ula talk about the experience of disabled scientists in academia in this podcast from The Academy.

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HEAR ABOUT OUR WORK AT THE DYNAMIC CELL

Two of the McClurg Lab students had their abstracts selected for talks at the Dynamic Cell meeting! You can hear all about Elena's and Rebecca's work in March.

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BBSRC FUNDED PHD AVAILABLE!

Join us to develop a new technique of Reverse ChIP-seq and to answer a fundamental biological question - how cells turn meiotic genes on and off! Deadline 15th January 2021!

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SEMINAR 'IN' LEEDS

If you are not yet tired of Zoom you will be able to hear all about or work on the 28th of October 2020 in the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology seminar series

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SEMINAR 'IN' ABERYSTWYTH

We will be presenting our work on the 15th of October 2020 in the Aberystwyth University MCI seminar series

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HEAR ABOUT OUR WORK AT NEWPI FORUM

Ula will be presenting work from the group at the International NewPI in Cell Development forum on the 16th of October 2020 at 12pm BST. You can join us here

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MORE ZOOM SEMINARS!

The amazing Pleasantine Mill has given the Cilia community Cilia in quarantine seminar series to make sure that we have something to look forward to in these strange time. You will be able to hear about work as part of this series on the 15th of September 2020.

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LOCK-DOWN WILL NOT STOP US!

Do you miss conferences? Are you gutted that the GRC meiosis had to be cancelled? Of course the answer is yes to both but don't despair. The Meiosis in quarantine seminar series organised by Paula Cohen is here to replace it! And you can hear about our work there on the 30th of July 2020.

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HOW DO PIS WORK IN LOCKDOWN?

You can read an interview with Ula by Kira Heikes for the ASCB 'How do Cell Biologists work at home' pandemic series in the June 2020 edition.

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PUBLICATION ALERT

Our collaborative work with the Papamichos-Chronakis group has been published this week in Nature Communications! Find out what role R-loops play in cancer biology and how INO80 is involved!

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BBSRC FUNDED PHD AVAILABLE

Jan 2020: We have a BBSRC funded PhD available to study the role of a meiotic protein, TEX12 in centrosome biology. Join us for some fun science!

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HEAR ABOUT OUR WORK IN LANCASTER

We will be presenting our work in the Lancaster University seminar series on the 30th of October 2019.

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MCCLURG LAB IS GROWING!

Oct 2019: Elena Sou has joined us on the A*-Liverpool funded PhD in collaboration with the Tee laboratory at A*. Elena will spend two years at Liverpool and 2 years in Singapore.

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GENOMIC DIVERSITY SESSION

Ula will be chairing the Genomic Diversity session at the EMBO Meiosis meeting in La Rochelle (August 2019). You will be able to hear about the most exciting discoveries in the field. And there is no better reason to get out of bed early than the chance to hear from the Star of Twitter and Science Harmit Malik himself!

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BRITISH MEIOSIS MEETING 2019

Are you attending the British Meiosis Meeting April 2019 in Aberystwyth? If not you should! We will be presenting our work in the afternoon session and looking forward to meeting you!

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SEE YOU IN CAMBRIDGE!

If you are attending the Genes & Cancer meeting in Cambridge in April 2019 our Lab will be giving a flash talk and presenting a poster. Come and say Hi!

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COME SEE US AT THE UK CILIA MEETING

We will be presenting our work at the UK Cilia meeting in Sheffield on the 22nd of March 2019. Our talk is in the morning session ;)

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FUNDED PHD STUDENTSHIP AVAILABLE

March 2019: A*-Liverpool partnership funded PhD is available in collaboration with Dr Wee-Wei Tee . Successful student will spend 2 years in Liverpool in the McClurg Lab and 2 years in Singapore in Tee Lab.

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OUR FIRST PAPER IS OUT!

First work from our lab is now out as a pre-print. Find out what TEX12 can do outside of the synaptonemal complex and how this affects centrosome amplification and oncogenesis!

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SEMINAR

If you are interested in meiosis and cancer and you work in Sheffield you are in luck! You can hear all about our work  in the Department  of plant and animal biology seminar series. University of Sheffield 16th of November 2019

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THE MCCLURG LAB OPENS ITS DOORS

In November 2018 The McClurg Lab opens its doors at the Institute of Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool UK

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