GLIOTRAIN Represented at the Inaugural Cancer Research UK Brain Tumour Conference Held in London, May 2018
GLIOTRAIN was represented at the inaugural CRUK Brain Tumour Conference, which was held in London from 1–3rd May 2018.
News and Events
GLIOTRAIN Represented at the Patient Voice in Cancer Event Held at UCD on 11th April 2018
GLIOTRAIN was represented by Dr Alice O'Farrell at The Patient Voice in Cancer Research IV event held at UCD.
Joint Public Outreach Event organised by GLIOTRAIN and Brain Tumour Ireland
On Friday 9th March Prof Annette Byrne, GLIOTRAIN Coordinator and Mr Stephen McNally, Consultant Neurosurgeon at Beaumont Hospital took part in a joint event hosted by Brain Tumour Ireland and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
GLIOTRAIN Represented at the 2018 "Research and Challenges of Brain Conditions in Ireland" Conference
GLIOTRAIN was represented by Programme Manager Dr Alice O'Farrell, PI Dr Brona Murphy and ESR Viktorija Juric at the "Research and Healthcare Responses to the Challenge of Brain Conditions in Ireland" Conference held at the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland on 6th March 2018. The conference, organised jointly by the Irish Brain Council and the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, kicked off #brainawarenessweek. The event focussed on the societal challenges and funding requirements for all brain conditions in Ireland.
Brain Awareness Week 2018
Prof Annette Byrne, GLIOTRAIN Coordinator, has been invited by Brain Tumour Ireland to present in Dublin during Brain Awareness week on March 9th 2018. Prof Byrne's talk will be entitled "Searching for new ways to tackle GBM: Fighting the Good Fight".
Congratulations are in order for two GLIOTRAIN students
Prior to commencing his GLIOTRAIN PhD in August 2018, Kieron White had taken part in the RCSI StAR International Summer Internship Programme. At the end of the programme Kieron presented his work on "Nanotherapeutics for Glioblastoma", for which he won first prize.
Early stage researchers present posters at national and international conferences
In the summer of 2018, GLIOTRAIN ESRs started to present early results from their projects at national and international scientific meetings. Jenny Weng (left) presented her poster entitled "Investigating Vascular Niches of Glioblastoma by Spatial Transcriptomics" at The 20th International Vascular Biology Meeting 2018 (IVBM2018) which was held in Helsinki, Finland on June 3-7, 2018.
GLIOTRAIN Network-wide Training
The first GLIOTRAIN training event will take place at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin from the 23rd to the 26th April 2018. It will be the first time all ESRs will meet together. There will be an interaction day with all PIs and ESRs to familiarise the students with the programme.
International Conferences
Prof Gabriele Bergers will present at two upcoming international conferences: firstly at the Cancer Research UK Brain Tumour Conference 2018 (in "The tumour microenvironment and the immune system" session and also at the "Brain Tumors Meeting 2018 - From Biology to Therapy" organised by the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology and Foundation of Clinical and Experimental Oncology offering a talk entitled "Glioma heterogeneity in space and time".
GLIOTRAIN PI delivers a seminar entitled "Cell death control – from mechanisms to applications"
Prof Markus Morrison delivered a seminar entitled "Cell death control – from mechanisms to applications" at the Seminar Series of the Fraunhofer Institute for production technology and automatization, Stuttgart, Germany (January 2018) and "Modelling cancer cell death – from mechanistic insight to systems-based patient prognosis" at the 3rd Open MultiMed Training School (Multi-scale and Multi-level Modelling Methodologies in Biomedicine), Erlangen, Germany, February 2018.