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Celebration of Achievement Awards Ceremony, Broughton High School:
July 2010
The Human Genetics Unit was delighted to be involved in the recent Celebration of Achievement Awards Ceremony at Broughton High School on the 23rd June. In addition to celebrating their academic achievements, the event chartered the senior school pupils´ journey through the academic year, highlighting the diverse array of trips, projects, events and collaborations.
Attendees were treated to several pieces of outstanding live music, dance and musical theatre, and keynote speaker Ms Jane Wood (Scottish Business in the Community) delivered an inspiring talk, rallying students to follow their ambitions and to make the most of all the opportunities they have. Dr Joe Rainger from the Unit then gave a short talk on the importance of science, not just in education, but also in our everyday life, before congratulating each of the Science Prizewinners.
The Unit has forged a strong partnership with Dave Cockburn's Science department over the recent years and was proud to be the Sponsor for the Science Prizes. The Unit hopes to continue, and develop further, its link with this truly inspiring school and its students, and would like to once again congratulate all of this year's Prizewinners.
The winners of Science Prizes were:
- Sean Gibbs for Academic Excellence in Physics (S5)
- Agnieska Janas for Outstanding Effort in Biology (S5)
- Farihah Karim for Outstanding Effort in Chemistry and Biology (S4)
- Kate Ramasawmy for Outstanding Effort and Academic Excellence in Physics (S4)
- Craig Robertson for Academic Excellence in Chemistry (S5)
- Alvin Shek for Academic Excellence in Biology and Physics (S5).
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Double success for Ofelia Martínez-Estrada:
July 2010
Dr Ofelia Martínez-Estrada has just been awarded a prestigious Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. This five year Fellowship, named after the Spanish Neurobiologist and Nobel Prizewinner in Medicine, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, is offered by the Ministry of Education and Science in Spain, and supports all fields from Physics and the Life Sciences to the Social Sciences and Humanities. Ofelia's Ramón y Cajal Fellowship will support her career in the cardiovascular field, specifically in the identification of new pathways implicated in maintenance and differentiation of epicardial cells.
Ofelia also received a prize for the best talk in the Scottish Developmental Biology Group meeting. She presented data concerning the role of Wt1 and EMT in the generation of cardiovascular precursor cells. (Martínez-Estrada, O.M. et al. Wt1 is required for cardiovascular progenitor cell formation through transcriptional control of Snail and
E-cadherin Nat.Genet. 42(1):89-93, 2010)
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