GSK Emerging Academics Symposium 2019 (Stevenage)
Very honoured to speak at the GSK Emerging Academics Symposium 2019. Great to meet GSK scientists and UK academics, and to have the opportunity to present our work on epigenetic chemical probes.
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Epigenetics exhibit at the Oxford Science + Ideas Festival
We had a fantastic day engaging with members of the public and talking about Epigenetics at the Oxford Science + Ideas festival. Children enjoyed modifying our plasticine histone model, and everyone appreciated real world examples of how Epigenetics is an important area of research. We showed people that identical twins differ because of the different environments they experience, using NASA twins Scott and Mark Kelly as a unique example of two very different environments! We also found some great examples of how Epigenetics affects animals: bees have completely different roles based on their diet during development, and that the sex of some species of turtles differ depending on the temperature… Read More »Epigenetics exhibit at the Oxford Science + Ideas Festival
Welcome Shelley James to the Kawamura group
Great to welcome Shelley James, a senior biological lab technician, to the Kawamura group at Newcastle University. Our first new lab member at Newcastle!
Group photo at Oxford
Our very last day in Oxford together as one big lab family, as we prepare for our lab move up North.
Chair & Professor of Chemical Biology at Newcastle University
Official first day as a Chair & Professor of Chemical Biology! Very excited to be joining Newcastle University and looking forward to help shape chemical biology research at Newcastle. Kawamura group will be operating both in Oxford and Newcastle during the transition period. I anticipate there will be lots of travelling up and down the country…!
2019 Part II student
Start of the new academic year! Welcome to Kieran Thow who joined our group as a MChem Part II student.
10th RSC/CSJ Joint Symposium – Chemistry for Complex Biology Systems (Tohoku University, Japan)
Had an amazing day at the Royal Society of Chemistry & Chemical Society of Japan Joint Symposium in Sendai. Lots of great science and a wonderful opportunity for the UK & Japanese chemical biologists to get to know each other. Thank you for inviting me to this fantastic symposium!
ChemBiOX 2019
Very well done to the Oxford-GSK-Crick Chemical Biology CDT 2017 cohort for organsing a very successful chemical biology student conference ChemBiOx 2019! Congratulations!
Race for Life 2019 – Oxford 5k
Race for Life Oxford 5k (15/07/2019). Oxford Chemistry Research Laboratory Team raised £235 for Cancer Research UK! Big thanks to everyone who has supported us. Photo with Emily Flashman, Leah Taylor Kearney and budding chemists.
Gordon Research Conference on High Throughput Chemistry and Chemical Biology 2019
Gordon Research Conference on High Throughput Chemistry and Chemical Biology, ColbySawyer, New London, US, 2019 (2-7/06/2019) Delighted to join the Gordon Research Conference HTCCB 2019 and give a talk on “Chemical Probes to Study Epigenetic Regulation by Histone Demethylases in Health and Disease”. Fantastic to hear the cutting-edge research that is going on and to get to know many scientists in this area!