10-13 Jul 2020
Leigh Breen, Martin Whitham, Gareth Wallis, Yu-Chiang Lai and Tim Cable will participate in the Pre-Olympic International Conference for Adaptations and Nutrition in Sports in Taipei, Taiwan. Come and have fun with us there!
1-5 Mar 2020
Alex Seabright and Yu-Chiang Lai will present their recent works in Keystone Symposia: New Insight into the Biology of Exercise. We look forward to learning new research and making new friends
21-25 October 2019
Yusuke Nishimura attends 12th Annual Course on Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis in Nashville
21 Oct 2019
Peter Dawson received MRC funding to attend a CRISPR Design & Strategy Course in Cambridge
15th October 2019
Yusuke Nishimura presents at 13th European Nutrition Conference in Dublin
01 Oct 2019
Today Peter Dawson starts his PhD position in the lab. We look forward to his new discoveries.
01 Oct 2019
Sam Lord starts his MSc by research and aiming to setup a new research workflow for protein-protein interaction.
26-27 Sept 2019
This is our first lab retreat, we are going to have a great fun in Worcestershire.
22 Jul 2019
Welcome Prof. Jun Wang from the Beijing Sport University visiting our lab for a month to conduct research exchange.
03 Jul 2019
Alex Seabright gave an oral presentation in European College of Sport Science (ECSS) in Prague for the Young Investigator Award competition.
18 May 2019
Prof. Jorgen Jensen from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences joined our lab meeting and gave a school seminar.
9-20 May 2019
Yu-Chiang Lai presents our recent work on MuRF1 regulatory mechanism at the MRC-ARUK CMAR scientific advisory board meeting
23-26 Apr 2019
Ibrahim Musa was funded by The Physiological Society to attend a workshop titled An introduction to Molecular Biology at the University College London (UCL)
12 Apr 2019
Congratulations to our undergrad project student Sam Lord who has been award a summer studentship from The Physiological Society.
17-18 Mar 2019
Alex Seabright will present his recent work at the meeting of Life Science 2019: Post-Translational Modifications and Cell Signalling. East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham.
12 Feb 2019
Dr. Lykke Sylow from the University of Copenhagen will visit the lab and give a seminar at the School of SportExR. Welcome!
01 Feb 2019
We welcome Professor Kei Sakamoto, Head of Metabolic Health, Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, visiting our lab at the School of SportExR and giving a seminar in IMSR.
10 Jan 2019
We obtained a fully funded PhD position from the MRC-ARUK Centre of Musculoskeletal Ageing Research. This project is collaborated with Prof Philip Atherton at the University of Nottingham and with our industrial partner Prof Kei Sakamoto at the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences.
11 Dec 2018
We welcome Ibrahim Musa joining our lab as a PhD student from Nigeria. Ibrahim will be co-supervised by Prof Lars Holm.
18 Oct 2018
Yu-Chiang gave a talk for the Biosciences Research Seminar at School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham.
01 Oct 2018
Peter Dawson joined our lab today as a Master student, co-supervised by Dr. Manuel Benzhaf (School of Biosciences). Welcome Peter!
23-28 Oct 2018
Yu-Chiang participated the International Conference on Muscle Wasting-Molecular Mechanism of Muscle Wasting During Ageing and Disease at the Ascona, Switzerland.
21 Sept 2018
Yu-Chiang gave a seminar in the University of Konstanz (Germany), hosted by Prof Olga Mayans.
03 Sept 2018
Our lab in collaboration with Prof Philip Atherton and Dr Dan Wilkinson obtained a Pump-Priming Fund from the MRC-ARUK Centre of Musculoskeletal Ageing Research.
04-07 Jul 2018
Yu-Chiang went to the ECSS Congress 2018 in Dublin.
13 Feb 2018
Congratulations to Kishan Adoni, who secured a fully funded PhD studentship to join the lab through a MIBTP scheme (joint funded by BBSRC and University of Birmingham). Kishan will be co-supervised by Prof Gareth Lavery.
09 Jan 2018
Hello World! The Lai Lab officially started today.