Diabetes and Islet Biology Lab - A story in pictures

Some pictures are worth a thousand words - Here's a storyline of the images from lab members since move to Western Sydney University (and some from the past).

2023-24

Goodbye Meena! (Welcome Rishi) - Mass Spec team
Summer time - freezer cleanup
Gut reporter assays - early days :)
scRNA-seq - linking a "NEAT"(-2) molecule to hypoxia
Travel to Doha, Qatar
Feb24: Science with Soccer: meeting@Doha Asia cup
Travel to Denmark - NNF project worktrip
An important molecule, esp. during grant writing!
Travel to Madrid, Spain - EASD meeting talks
Celebrating submission of a manuscript during travels
Meeting friends, collaborators at EASD
... and more collaborative discussions in planning!
EASD presentations
... and some classic touristy fun around Madrid
Flight back to Copenhagen - Steno Mass Spec core
Innovation week presentations - Isabelle!
Innovation week presentations - Pooja!
Pamela and Ho - its all in the gut (SCFAs)
Aditya - the immuno-modulation story
Madilyn's talk - behavioural side of weight gain in mice
Hrishikesh - best presentation award!
Lab presentations at the innovation week
Cake time! Aditya and Wilson
Louise's visit to WSU! More microRNA talks :)
Australian Physiology Competetion @WSU
Thank you - APC Judges, (staff, students, sponsors)!
... and Cake!
...and now cake, cookies, nuggets for mice
Prepping for mice - keep the cheesecake coming!
A lonely visitor walking towards the labs
The Breakie study - first to turn up to test miRs
Olink joins the other toys for targeted proteomics

2022-23

Anand- Theme lead Biomarkers
Mugdha - Theme lead Immunology and GDM
Wilson - Theme lead Data analytics and lncRNAs
The first results @ WSU
Early days - EpMotion robot
QiaCube-HT robot joins us again at WSU
Travel to Denmark resumes
Hello - old collaborator!
Lab group 2022 - well, most of us
old friends - visit anytime:)
NAIDOC week July 2022
A new grant from JDRF International kicks off!!
Rural Health Research meet
Louise:planing a symposium
TOBOGM summit
Anand's talk IADPSG 2022
Meeting Bill & Sue
Teamwork!
...and some cake!
DDA meeting
DDA meeting - Islets
Birthdays & cake
...and graduation cakes
Welcome & Goodbyes
Louise: Diabetes meeting
Ehsan: PhD submission!
Vijit: Thesis confirmation
Vijit: Graduation
Mya - Graduation
DDEA Biomarker Analytes Algorithms meeting
Mugdha's talk: Copenhagen
Pooja: Poster pitch @DDEA
DDEA: Speakers dinner
Anubhav, Ritta @ CPH meeting
Collaborative meetings: Steno Diabetes Center CPH
RUC visit: Mugdha, Louise & early career researcher:)
Grant writing!
Nyhavn
Wilson awarded a JDRFI post-doctoral fellowship!
GCMS commissioned :)
Former students --> collaborators
Cross-discipline collaborative insights
New NIH R56 grant with Kirstie, Mugdha kicks off!
GDM to T2D interesting talks @ ENDO2023, Chicago
Anand's talk @ JDRF Australia CRN symposium
WSU group @ JDRF Aus symposium (most of us..)
07-2023: New industry partnership with past colleagues!
Samples from Adelaide arrived @ WSU labs!
Mugdha receives DFAT grant - welcome Rucha

2024

Mahesh visiting WSU SOM
Aditya & Hrishikesh (PhD students) starting Q4/23
Amila Atic (visiting scholar) from Novo - RUC
Anand : NNF grant and DDEA visiting fellowship
EOY group lunch
So many researchers to set up the Barbie?
Jan 24: Hrishi's B'day cake
Random old clicks - in the lab and around :)
Ryan & Wilson - post PhD!
old visitors - Asma
Hasinika, Liisa & mouse processing unit
Indy!
Old memories from NIH days with Dave Harlan
Louise & Tobern
Meeting old student/friend from NIH days - Chris!
Mugdha: CUDOS talk
Qatari collaborators: Ammira
Dorte, Louise, Ranjan, Claudiane
Jens' Danish potatoes
Louise's lab bakeoff :)
Anja visiting us in Sydney
Sarang (and younger Wilson)
Fahmida
Lena's team & Wilson
Wilson, Anand Stockholm 22
Wilson in Stockholm
Jim Johnson, Raghu Mirmira, Juliana Chan, QBB
Caroline in Sydney
Megan, Dorota - Doha
Carmella, Flemming, Ranjan, Mugdha - CUDOS
Louise, Megan, Torben, Ronald - CUDOS
Anand, Ammira, Sue, Ranjan, Louise - Sidra
Lab lunch out
Congrats Ehsan!
meeting or Soccer?
CUDOS - Mugdha, Megan and everyone!
.... more cake!
QBB - Labcoats... Check!
Not any lab animal model!
Lab cons on sale when you needed them the most!