Stephanie and Stephan were lucky enough to be able to attend the fantastic Jacques Monod meeting on ligand-gated ion channels in Roscoff, France – where they also ran into Pless lab alumni Timothy Lynagh (now in Bergen, Norway). Apart from an outstanding program (details to be found HERE), the meeting featured a spectacular setting, along with great weather and food – and big thank you goes to the organisers and we have our fingers crossed for more meetings in Roscoff in the future.

Congrats to Christian for being selected as a speaker at the 2019 Ion Channel Symposium in Copenhagen. He will be talking about the latest data on the interaction between ASICs and an endogenous neuropeptides, generated by him, Nina and Yasmin. The full program of the meeting can be found here.

Stephan got to present some of our latest data at the Institute of Biological Chemistry at the University of Vienna – thanks to Markus Muttenthaler for organising a fun visit!

Thanks to generous support through postdoc fellowships from the Marie Curie program and the Lundbeck Foundation, Stephanie will be able to work on an exciting new project in our lab for the next 3 years – looking forward to getting this off the ground!

Congrats to our resident Italian chemist for securing a coveted postdoc fellowship from the Lundbeck Foundation. He will join the lab of Prof Huib Ovaa in Leiden to conduct a collaborative project for the next 3 years. We are sad to see him move to the Netherlands after the summer, but it will be great to collaborate with him on this project in the future!

Thanks to the generous support of the Oticon Foundation, Pharma Denmark and the Boehringer Ingelheim Fond, we were able to attend the 2019 edition of the Biophysical Society meeting in Baltimore with Lise, Mette, Nina, Chow, Zeshan and Stephan. The poster presentations were very well received and Nina did a great job presenting her PhD work in a platform talk – congrats and well to everyone involved.

We are delighted to welcome Cristina Bulancea to the team as our next laboratory technician intern. Originally from Moldova, she will join our lab as part of her education as a laboratory technician in Aarhus – we look forward to having you around!

We have been very fortunate to have had Cristiana Chirvas around for the past year as a laboratory technician intern. She has done a fantastic job in the lab and has been great to be around – we will miss you and wish you all the best for the next career step!

After just having said farewell to Matthias a short while ago, he is back in the lab for a short-term, part-time position to help us out with a bunch of urgent patch-clamp experiments -good to have you around again (if only for a short while)!

This years annual retreat of the Center for Biopharmaceuticals saw us talk about careers for two days up the coast in Snekkersten. Thanks to everyone for making a very productive and fun outing!