The lab took me axe throwing today for my birthday. Fair to say we had a lot of fun! Rowan Bancroft Macaulay Turner Rowanne Fletcher

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At the Liverpool BSP this week. Catching up with old friends and good to see the Grencisgroup listening carefully to Macaulay’s talk via zoom! Lydia Becker Institute

Macaulay Turner and Jacob Samuel Thompson giving fantastic presentations at the Liverpool British Society for parasitology spring meeting Lydia Becker Institute

In the afternoon today at #BSP2024 , we had a 'Subcellular structure' session featuring Prof Ross Waller of Cambridge University, Macauley Turner of The University of Manchester, Dr Matthew Haley of ZEISS Group, Dr Michael Hammond of Czech Academy of Sciences, & Prof Dominique Soldati-Favre of Université de Genève!

Birthday celebrations at the lab meeting today followed by two great talks from our undergraduate project students Esha and Josh Macaulay Turner Rowanne Fletcher

A very rainy Manchester ☔️

Great trip to Göthenburg presenting my work at the NanoSIMS workshop. Also good to catch up with a Kathryn Else group alumni

'I started to invent the wheel, but it got too expensive to finish'

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's The Telegraph

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Disappointed to announce the Grencisgroup and Kathryn Else team finished dead last for the bar rally due to some scandalous decision making! We’ll have the privilege of organising next years shindig

It’s bar rally night Lydia Becker Institute Meet the Grencis/Else team and (some of) Mouse Trap. Who will win?

A return to the UKHSA! Thanks to the Manchester Medical Microbiology Partnership for inviting me to talk about my work on whipworms and NanoSIMS for their journal club

The Kathryn Else lab buddies at the British Society for Parasitology conference this year, just before hitting the dance floor for a fab ceilidh - thank you to the organisers for a wonderful conference and lots of laughter and jumping about to Scottish tunes 😃 Macaulay Turner Jacob Samuel Thompson

What a great British Society for Parasitology conference, some fantastic talks and also great to catch up with some BLS Lancaster University former supervisors

Presenting my poster today at the British Society for Parasitology looking at how we can use #NanoSIMS to localise drugs in the whipworm!

Don’t forget to give your NanoSIMS some TLC every now and again!

Lovely Christmas lunch with the group - just a few faces missing Ruth Forman Macaulay Turner

Attended a fascinating python training course today provided by Research IT at the University of Manchester. Would definitely recommend for anyone who’s a fellow programming newbie