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2024

Congratulations Wyn!

29th January

Huge congratulations to Wyn for passing his Viva today! He's already started his postdoctoral position at Cardiff University, and we have already started to miss him on the team. We wish him the best of luck in everything going forward.

2023

Congratulations Katie!

19th May

Congratulations to Katie Partridge for passing her Viva today! She will be moving on from the Beallacotts soon to pursue other research, and we all wish her the absolute best in her future endeavours.

Grant achievement

Congratulations Wyn for being awarded two travel grants to attend the XVI European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease in Berlin this September. The grants were from BSN and Network Glia e.V.

2022

Brain Networking Event

Sep 07 2022

Kate, Craig, Paul, Wyn and Asmaa attended this year's Brain Networking Event at Sandy Park, a cross-disciplinary networking event for Exeter researchers. Craig, Kate and Paul presented.

Beallacott Retreat 2022

Sep 05 2022

The Retreats are back! For the first time in three years, the Beallacotts were able to get together in person to share their research progress and plans for the future. The day finished with a competitive game of bowling and a dinner by the Exeter Quay.

Congratulations Wyn!

July 21st 2022

Congratulations to Wyn Firth for being awarded his first research grant from the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. Consumables on you for this year!

Presentation winner!

Feb 04 2022

Congratulations to Katie Partridge for winning best presentation at the annual Diabetes UK PhD Student networking Day! The communication of research to the public, press, and other researchers is an essential part of science, so well done Katie for shining in this! To read more about Katie's research investigating pancreatic islet biology in diabetes, click here.

2021

Newly published work on AMPK activation and hypoglycaemia in rats

Dec 17 2021

This publication has been a long time coming! JDRF-funded research into AMPK activation's effect on the hypoglycaemia counterregulatory response in rats is now published, in 'Brain Permeable AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Activator R481 Raises Glycaemia by Autonomic Nervous System Activation and Amplifies the Counterregulatory Response to Hypoglycaemia in Rats'. The press release has already been republished around the world in a variety of languages - science communication in action! Read the paper in full here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2021.697445/full

Insight into lockdown research - Paul talks JDRF-funded research

March 25 2021
Paul worked with the JDRF team to talk about his JDRF-funded research into hypoclycaemia unawareness, and touches upon growing brain cells in a dish along with his personal reasons for researching Type 1 diabetes

Post lockdown celebration of recent PhD successes

Amazing to finally have a PhD completion/graduation get together for ⁦@Robb_JL⁩ ⁦@ajmacdonald93⁩ and ⁦@NAMorrissey⁩ after all this time. So lovely to see the team in person ⁦@Craig_Beall⁩ ⁦@alkhalidi_asmaa⁩ ⁦@PaulWP_⁩ and welcome newer members of the team ⁦@FirthWyn

2020

Congratulations Alastair!

14th May 2020

Congratulations to Alastair MacDonald for passing his Viva today!

Congratulations Josie!

27th March 2020

Congratulations to Josie Robb for passing her Viva today!

New editing role for Dr Kate Ellacott

1st May 2020

Congratulations to Dr Kate Ellacott for her new role on the Journal of Neuroendocrinology Senior Editing panel as their new Early Career Perspective Editor!

Congratulations Ana!

13th February 2020

Congratulations to Ana Cruz for passing her Viva today!

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