I passed my PhD viva! 🎉
Huge thanks to my examiners @valeriamarasco.bsky.social & @jamesacotton.bsky.social , my supervisors @stevensonlab.bsky.social & @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social , and friends and @physiologyuog.bsky.social & @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk family who made it possible! 💖 To next chapter 🥂
New Study Alert 📢
PAW group PI Dr Mark McLaughlin, along with colleagues from the Small Animal Hospital, is involved in this Corgi study into Degenerative Myelopathy!
Please share and consider participating if you have a Corgi that meets the criteria in the news story linked!
Congrats Sayantan and colleagues on your publication!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Check out the discovery of the impact prolactin and triiodothyronine have on hamster adipose tissue.
@sayantansur.bsky.social @calumstewartphd.bsky.social @iremsenman.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
Congratulations Noor Khan for passing his viva on Tuesday afternoon! 🎉@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
Amazing heart cake made by @npevans.bsky.social
Little win: pre-viva went great 🥳 Questions & chat were also so good! I left motivated (and relieved 😅). Next up: PhD viva 🎓 Thanks to everyone who joined! Huge thanks to @stevensonlab.bsky.social @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social @physiologyuog.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk 💖🐹 #PhDLife #Academia
Last few weeks to apply!
PAW Lab Coffee Morning social event today. Always good to catchup and eat some cakes and savoury snacks!
@stevensonlab.bsky.social @npevans.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
Interested in the molecular basis of timing winter dormancy and the anticipation of spring in mammals? Check our Calum @calumstewartphd.bsky.social latest publication in eLife! Deiodinase type-3 (Dio3) is the key gene.
Generously supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Final PAW seminar of the academic year yesterday🎉Very interesting talks from two of our PhD students: Ansley Li (Supervisors Prof @npevans.bsky.social + Dr Michelle Bellingham), and Bunnada Siriporn (Supervisors Dr Mark McLaughlin, Prof Catherine Stalin + Prof Rodrigo Qiuntana). @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read our latest paper on the Endogenous trade-offs in spotted munia 👉
Seasonal photoperiodic cycles regulate energy rheostasis in many animals. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) and the liver are key metabolic organs that show remarkable plasticity in response to photoperiodi...
Apply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics:
Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me
@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
Davina Hill
Our veterinary researchers are undertaking a new study in corgis to better understand Degenerative myelopathy, a debilitating disease of the spinal cord. Our team is looking for owners of registered dogs with signs of the condition to participate. Read the full story @ www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Annual reproductive processes are timed by the endogenous circannual clock and environmental cues. Although seasonal phenotypic plasticity is well-doc…
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School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine
