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

 

Explore our research through publications, current projects or our experimental approaches.

 

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).

 
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)...
She’s done! Ashleigh’s MBiolSci thesis is bound and ready to submit. The end of her time in the lab... until October when Ashleigh starts her PhD with us!
A day for ice cream treats in the sunshine 🍦☀️
Snowdrop season
Managed to get a bargain copy of a classic for the lab 🧫 🔬