Wilkie Lab

@Wilkie_Lab

Based in @MRC_WIMM at @UniofOxford, our researchers work with NHS craniofacial teams around the UK to advance understanding of the genetics of #craniosynostosis

Oxford, United Kingdom imm.ox.ac.uk/research/resea… Joined October 2020

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Wilkie Lab @Wilkie_Lab Feb 21, 2024

🧬🚨 New paper alert! 🚨🧬

Published in @JMG_BMJ, collaborative work involving @IsaacSWalton, Chingyiu Pang, and Andrew Wilkie from the @MRC_WIMM reports the first two #craniosynostosis patients with homozygous variants in #SMAD6.

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Wilkie Lab @Wilkie_Lab Nov 8, 2024

Check out this special symposium edition of @JournalofAnat on #craniosynostosis guest edited by one of our PIs, @srftwigg, and featuring work by our DPhil student @IsaacSWalton 🧬

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com Reassessing the association: Evaluation of a polyalanine deletion variant of RUNX2 in non‐syndromic... The skull images in the abstract require attribution as follows: “Skull image created by Servier Medical Art, and modified for use under a CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...

Journal of Anatomy @JournalofAnat Nov 8, 2024

Progress in craniosynostosis research! AdCr meetings unite clinicians, researchers & families to tackle this condition. Latest Journal of Anatomy issue honours Prof. Gillian Morriss-Kay & features 10 interdisciplinary studies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo… #Craniosynostosis #AdCr

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Wilkie Lab @Wilkie_Lab Jul 23, 2024

It's a momentous week: after 8 years in the Wilkie Lab, our former postdoc/visiting researcher @educalpena is leaving Oxford to become a Principal Investigator at @IISLaFe in Valencia 🧬🇪🇸

Congratulations to Edu, and farewell - we wish you the best of luck with your next steps!

Edu and Andrew Wilkie at a farewell dinner.

The Wilkie and Goriely Group around a table at Edu's farewell dinner.

Edu pictured, sat down, presenting at his last lab meeting with the group.

Wilkie Lab @Wilkie_Lab Jun 21, 2024

Congratulations to our Postdoc Lisa for being a runner up in the @MRC_WIMM Public Engagement Awards! 🗣️🧪

Lisa has been involved in numerous initiatives since joining our lab, most recently helping to organise @pintofscience in Oxford 🍺

MRC WIMM @MRC_WIMM Jun 20, 2024

@lizthescientis1 Well done to all the researchers who have been recognised in the MRC WIMM Public Engagement Awards:   Joint Winners: @maya_pidoux (@TaoDongGroup) & Tom Wilson (@FoldingGenome) Runners Up: Andrew Armitage (@DrakesmithLab) & Lisa Leinhos (@Wilkie_Lab)
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Wilkie Lab @Wilkie_Lab Jun 14, 2024

Congratulations to our DPhil student @IsaacSWalton!

Isaac won the Judge’s prize at @Oxford_MRC_DTP for speedily presenting his research about modelling ZIC1 craniosynostosis in mice - in under 3 minutes ⏱️‼️

MRC WIMM @MRC_WIMM Jun 14, 2024

Congratulations to our students @grace_meaker and @IsaacSWalton, who both won awards at the Oxford MRC Doctoral Training Partnership Symposium (@Oxford_MRC_DTP) earlier today.

Grace won the first prize in the student short talks, with her piece on 'The Novel Role of Runx Factors: Regulating Haematopoietic Stem Cell Expansion'.

Isaac won the Judge’s Award in the 3-Minute Research Competition.

Well done both!

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