Lennon Lab

Lots of smiles and fabulous treats at @Lennon_Lab picnic @wtccmr 🙏🙏

It’s a real pleasure to share our latest preprint- a superb collaboration with @SherwoodElegans & @j_ellingford - A basement membrane discovery pipeline uncovers network complexity, new regulators, and human disease associations. Here's the the story- 1/14

Fantastic to have Brian & Angus visit from ⁦@stramerlab⁩ this week- #basementmembranes, biology & then beer! ⁦@Lennon_Lab⁩ ⁦@wtccmr⁩

Huge congratulations to Nikki ⁦@nikkikoudis⁩ for a successful PhD defence today! Creating new tools to study kidney basement membranes. Celebrating with ⁦@Lennon_Lab⁩ ⁦@wtccmr⁩ - thanks to ⁦@BrianDerby1⁩ & examiners Joe Swift & Becky Foster

Launching the Patient Day for #podocyte2021 with Why Podocytes? Fantastic to be sitting next to @neilturn in person & online! @podocyte2021

A really useful session with our patient Q&A panel today giving advice to other patients and sharing their stories! #podocyte2021 #Alport #FSGS #nephroticsyndrome #membranousnephropathy #IgAN

Great #podocyte2021 meeting, many thanks to @RLWczyk, @Lennon_Lab, and the rest of the organizers! Congratulations to the #podo23 hosts, @KSusztak and Larry Holzman!

Fabulous evening at #podocyte2021 @podocyte2021 @RLWczyk @MarylineFresqu1

Wow! Another great day at #podocyte2021 - getting used to this hybrid setup! Lots happening behind the scenes- thanks to our reception team who are also busy live tweeting!! ⁦@podocyte2021⁩ ⁦@AWolowczyk⁩ @LucyR124

Starting off the first day of the main meeting of #podocyte2021 with an introduction by Graham Lord - VP and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health at the University of Manchester

A fantastic start to #podocyte2021 - the pre-meeting organised the amazing early career team ⁦@F_Lausecker⁩ ⁦@RW_Naylor⁩ ⁦@MarylineFresqu1⁩ ⁦@PinyuanTian⁩ ⁦@syb_k⁩ & ⁦@LinusButt⁩ - congrats! You have set the bar high!! ⁦@podocyte2021⁩

Superb advice from our panel discussion this afternoon- on publishing & career choices #podocyte2021

Excited to add Manchester for #podocyte2021 to the list of conference locations - see you all very soon!

Highlights (2/2):

Since many of you won't be joining us in person for #podocyte2021 we thought we'd bring Manchester to you! Here are some highlights (1/2):

Fact 3: Adhesion to the GBM and maintenance of the actin cytoskeleton are important for podocyte health and function. This is highlighted by the fact that of the ~40 genes that cause FSGS/nephrotic disease, all can be attributed to regulating podocyte adhesion or actin dynamics

Fact 2: Endocytosis is an important function of podocytes and is thought to regulate multiple aspects of podocyte health, including the actin cytoskeleton, the slit diaphragm, and even albumin processing.

It’s Podofact Friday! Fact 1: The apical membrane of a podocyte is negatively charged due to the presence of proteins such as podocalyxin. This charge is thought to repulse similarly charged molecules (such as albumin) to aid the filtration barrier

We are looking for your prettiest research podocyte image! To celebrate the beauty of the podocyte, we have setup an art gallery #podocyte2021 with the best artwork in the exhibition receiving a prize. To see details and submit your own PodoArt go to registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/199/home

There is also the opportunity for teams to join #podocyte2021 at a reduced cost. Where two persons from the same group have registered, a third person can register for free! Go to confercare.manchester.ac.uk/events/podocyt… for details on teams registrations