Twelvetrees Lab
Twelvetrees Lab
 


Welcome to the Twelvetrees Lab

The Twelvetrees Lab is a newly established research group at the University of Sheffield, based in the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience. We are fascinated by how the microtubule cytoskeleton and its motor proteins build and maintain neurons. We aim to understand the molecular mechanisms of this process and create new avenues for translational research. 

 
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Research

 

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Lab life

 

Get to know us! Learn about the lab and our location, meet the team or read out latest news on the lab blog.

 

Research Images

 
EB3 comets falling in a dendritic tree.

EB3 comets falling in a dendritic tree.

Individual kinesin molecules walking along immobilised microtubules in vitro.

Individual kinesin molecules walking along immobilised microtubules in vitro.

Dynein-GFP oscillating between developing neurites imaged over 14 hours.

Dynein-GFP oscillating between developing neurites imaged over 14 hours.

Dynein-GFP (cyan) accumulating in the distal axons labelled with for tau (orange).

Dynein-GFP (cyan) accumulating in the distal axons labelled with for tau (orange).

 
Evie’s doing some cool stuff with the flow cytometer at the moment. How long does it take to measure 10,000 cell?.... that long!
Night out to say thank you and congrats to Emma S and Emma T as they finish MSc projects in the lab. Fortunately for us saying goodbye is only half as difficult - Emma T won a scholarship to start a PhD with us in October!
Hanging out with the Mike Fowler medal for Creative Science winner, Ashleigh Davey, on her graduation day - well done Ash!
Beutiful warm sunny day in Sheffield, but don’t worry - we always keep our grad students nice and cool 😎 #coldroomdays
Busy busy at the bench today #realtimescience
New lab mascot 🐖
Time to clean out the lab fridge - A LOT of cloning remnants after a few weeks of successful molecular biology
Evie’s first international meeting and poster presentation was followed up today with her First Year PhD talk over in the Medical School - ticking off the milestones!
... right before we jetted to Chile for #neurocyto2019
It’s been a busy few weeks. We took a trip to @thegreatescapegame to celebrate the end/beginning of Ash’s time in the lab (and her failure to escape us)...