School of Cancer Sciences

TransPot Mid-Term Review and Training Course

TransPot Supervisors, ESRs and EC Project Officer at the TransPot Mid Term Review

The Translational Research Network for Prostate Cancer (TransPot) is a pan-European research training network focussed on Translational Cancer Research, Cancer Cell Biology and Applied Systems Biology/Systems Medicine and is composed of academic and industrial institutions from the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Greece and The Netherlands.

TransPot, as a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) integrates the leading research scientists and laboratories in Europe with an interest in these research fields, recruiting 11 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and offering them the unique opportunity to perform top-level and high impact research. This four year project has received over €2.5m in EU funding. It begun in January 2017 and is led by Professor Hing Leung, Professor of Urology and Surgical Oncology at ICS, University of Glasgow.

The project incorporates the latest multi-disciplinary research technologies to understand lethal prostate cancer. The TransPot consortium offers an innovative research training programme to ESRs to ensure that they can effectively operate in today's multi-disciplinary programs. This includes both research (e.g. target validation and drug discovery; biomarker discovery and validation) and transferable skill sets (e.g. cross species onco-omics analysis; novel preclinical (culture/in vivo) models).

TransPot recently had its Mid Term Review with the European Commission. Project Officer Julien Giordani joined the consortium in Glasgow for a productive and informative review of the project and progress of ESRs, with the consortium receiving positive feedback.

The review was followed by TransPot’s third training course, focussing on Clinical Management and Precision Medicine Prostate Cancer. This course was well received by TransPot ESRs.
 
For more information about the TransPot project, visit our website.

‌By Katie Wright, TransPot Project Manager
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721746

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Our new website went live on 11th April 2019

https://www.gpol.org/

Anna Morris (GPOL Project Manager) is keen for your help to populate the website with more content or if you have any comments, please let her know. Email: anna.morris@glasgow.ac.uk

We have a new logo too! (you can contact Anna for a copy) and of course we had to celebrate with a cake!

@WWCRC_GPOL

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In honour of the late Professor Tessa Holyoake

The Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre is extremely proud that the pharmaceutical company, Bristol Myers Squibb, have named one of their meeting rooms in their head office in Uxbridge after the late Professor Tessa Holyoake.  This was based on the significant contribution she made to both the development of dasatinib but, more importantly, her world leading research in haemato-oncology, particularly in the understanding of leukaemic stem cells.  Examples of other leading contributors in science and medicine also selected were Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale so she is certainly in esteemed company.  Everyone at POG would like to thank BMS for this incredible gesture.

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Autophagy UK Network conference, 21-22 May 2019

There is still time to register for the 5th Annual UK Autophagy Network meeting which will be held in the Sir Charles Wilson Building (UofG) on the 21st and 22nd of May 2019

Website autophagy-uk.com

 @autophagyUK

Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process where the cells degrade their own cellular material. It is involved in protein and organelle degradation and plays an essential role in both cellular and whole-animal homeostasis. It has become one of the major challenges for research in biology and for the discovery of new therapeutic approaches. At the UofG the Helgason group has been studying autophagy in relation to chronic myeloid leukaemia for a number of years now (Baquero, Dawson, & Helgason, 2018; Bellodi et al., 2009; G. V. Helgason, Karvela, & Holyoake, 2011; G. V Helgason et al., 2013; Ianniciello, Rattigan, & Helgason, 2018; Mitchell et al., 2018).

The audience of the meeting will be group leaders, post doctoral scientists, PhD students, and biotech company representatives. Main research groups in the in UK are in London, Warwick, Cambridge, Bristol, Nottingham, Sheffield, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. They all work on different aspects of the role of autophagy in health and disease. Amongst an exciting panel of keynote speakers is Professor Kevin Ryan from Glasgow’s CRUK Beatson Institute.

This meeting aims to focus the scientific community around this theme to enhance knowledge and to promote novel cross-institute collaborations in the field. The organisation of a UK Autophagy Network Conference will gather together autophagy researchers across the United Kingdom and beyond.   A major aim of the meeting is to enable junior scientists to showcase their research to the wider community and provide them with a chance to network and stimulate national and international collaborations.   We have successfully applied for Proximity to Discovery (MRC) funding as well as a subvention through the Glasgow Convention Bureau.

Professor Tessa Holyoake Memorial Lecture – Thursday, 27th June 2019

The Inaugural Tessa Holyoake Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday 27th June 2019 from 12-1 at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research.   The speaker is Professor Tony Green, Wellcome Trust/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Head, University of Cambridge and his talk is entitled "Myeloproliferative neoplasms - JAK/STAT signalling and stem cell subversion”.  Please save this date in your diary.

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POG Open Night – was held on Thursday, 25th April 2019

The Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre (POG) opened its doors to supporters and friends on Thursday 25th April 2019.

The Open Night gave a unique opportunity to meet the scientists working at the centre, to find out about the very latest research, watch lab demonstrations and of course see where your donations are going.

POG researchers were out and about in local schools for STEM week. Dr Heather Jorgensen was at a primary school in Carluke and said there were some great questions from possible future research scientists including her son, Fraser.  

Dr Karen Keeshan was at Nicholas Primary showing P5 and P3 explaining “what’s in your blood?”.  This was lots of fun and some really smart questions from the kids too. 

POG Fundraising Events

‌“Raise the Roof” Fundraising Event – 13th May 2019

Dr Vignir Helgason has organised this fundraising event along with Chris, the owner of Glasgow Radisson Red Hotel, who has offered to host a “Raise The Roof” Fundraising Event at the Red Sky Bar for POG on the Thursday 13th June.  Tickets are £40 with all proceeds going to POG.  This will include complimentary glass of champagne on arrival, live acoustic music at the start of the evening, buffet meal, raffle and auctions and 70/80s disco. 

This is a great opportunity to have some fun and raise money for POG at the same time.

Tickets are available here


POG Annual Golf Day – 19th May 2019

The annual golf day in aid of the Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre will take place on Sunday 19th of May 2019 at Balmore Golf Course. All proceeds from this competition go directly to the centre.

For entry forms, please message “Mack Designs” via Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/events/261843474485724/

Open to all golfers of all abilities.
£50.00 per person
11am - 1pm - Tea / Coffee and breakfast rolls on arrival
1pm - 3pm - Tee off - Round of golf - 18 holes - Team Photos


Munro Challenge – 25th -27th May 2019

Bag a Munro and raise funds for Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre!  For more information, please contact Rosie Munro – Email: rosie.munro@glasgow.ac.uk – Tel:  0141 330 6248


Edinburgh Half Marathon

There is still time to donate to Lizzie Malloch’s Just Giving page.  Lizzie, who is the niece of the late Professor Tessa Holyoake’s, will be running the Edinburgh Half Marathon in May along with friends, Heather, Lucy and Sally.  https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/lizzie-malloch

Polyomics workshops

The first workshop (Ensembl browser) was held on the 9th April and the second (Introduction to Omics) will take place 29th – 30th May 2019

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Staff News 

A warm welcome to all of our new staff

Richard Wilson graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1984 and then worked in N. Ireland and Scotland as a junior doctor in surgery which included three years of colorectal cancer laboratory research in QUB. He then retrained in clinical oncology before undertaking a post-CCT Fellowship in the National Cancer Institute in the USA in medical oncology and drug development. He was appointed in 2001 as a Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Belfast City Hospital and QUB. He set up the first early phase cancer clinical trials programme on the island of Ireland, and was the first Clinical Director of the N. Ireland Cancer Trials Network.

His main interests are in gastrointestinal cancer (particularly colorectal cancer but also small bowel and anal cancer and peritoneal malignancies), in drug development, biomarkers, stratified medicine and early and late phase clinical trials.

His work includes cancer biology, translational and clinical research. After 17 years back in Belfast, he moved to the Institute of Cancer Sciences in the University of Glasgow and the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in early 2019 where he is Professor of Gastrointestinal Oncology and an Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology. Email: Richard.H.Wilson@glasgow.ac.uk

Robert Insall I am based at the Beatson, for now at least; I may rove…Who am I working with? Anyone who likes moving cells, or wants to connect numbers, computational models, or machine learning to enlighten their science. Currently Laura Machesky, Crispin Miller, Shehab Ismail, Leo Carlin, Joanne Edwards; and also Engineers from Glasgow and Strathclyde, Mathematicians from Strathclyde, the Softmech alliance of mathematical biologists in Glasgow, Daniele Faccio and Jonathan Taylor from Physics, among others.

I started as a computer programmer, got bored of that so I did a biology degree at Cambridge, followed by a PhD in the Cambridge MRC centre and a postdoc in the Johns Hopkins Medical School. It was there that I got interested in cells moving and chemotaxis. My first job was as an MRC Career Development fellow in UCL; I got my professorship in Birmingham, and then came to the Beatson about 12 years ago. As my interests have got more mathematical and esoteric it has seemed better to move from the Beatson to the University, to get a wider range of collaborations and a wider range of funding. Contact details: 0141 330 4005 or R.Insall@beatson.gla.ac.uk



Calum Calderwood spends most of his time working remotely in the Wolfson Medical School Building and attends regular meetings and events at the Wolfson Wohl. He mainly assists with the Athena Swan data collection, analysis and presentation (along with help from Keilly MacDonald), as well as formatting, reviewing and editing the Athena Swan application draft whilst Chris Halsey focuses on writing and revising the main body of text. Email: Calum.Calderwood@glasgow.ac.uk


Hi! I am Josip Vrancic, a junior physician from Croatia, graduated from the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine. I’ve recently been appointed as a Clinical research fellow in Immune cell and metastasis group at CRUK Beatson Institute. During my medical studies, I worked on a project examining the role of oxidative modifications of the extracellular matrix on breast cancer stem cells at Ruder Boskovic Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. Prior to commencing my employment here, along with the medical jobs I have conducted research at the University of Split and investigated a novel way of DNA-protein conjugates repair. My PhD project, under the joint supervision of Seth Coffelt and Patricia Roxburgh, will focus on counteracting PARP inhibitor resistance with immunotherapy in ovarian cancer. PARP inhibitors have been a major breakthrough in ovarian cancer therapy but most patients eventually develop resistance. Utilizing various transgenic mice models, we will examine how mutation status influences immune cell infiltration in HGSC. In addition, how tumour immune landscape changes after cisplatin and PARP inhibitor treatment will also be determined. Finally, we will examine how immune cells shape the response to cisplatin and PARP inhibitors. Email: Josip.Vrancic@glasgow.ac.uk

Wei Liu is a bioinformatician in David Vetrie's lab and works on the single cell RNAseq analysis to find the leukaemic cell clonal architecture. Contact details: level 3, WWCRC. Email: Wei.Liu.2@glasgow.ac.uk

Karen Bellec works in the WWCRC in Julia Cordero’s group. She is a post-doc and studies the Drosophila intestinal stem cell biology. Email: karen.bellec@glasgow.ac.uk

Dr Natasha Malik starts her first Post-doctoral RA position with Dr Alison Michie at POG. Natasha says “our lab focuses on a particular cell signalling pathway in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia known as the mTOR pathway. I am focusing on targeting various proteins within this pathway to assess CLL progression. This lab always has always promoted a friendly and supportive environment where researchers can grow both professionally and make close friends. Working here so far has been a great experience and I cannot wait to continue this position and contribute what I can to this field”. Email: natasha.malik@glasgow.ac.uk

Dr Rebecca Mitchell joined POG as a Research Associate. She will be working with Prof Mhairi Copland and Dr David Vetrie on the Bloodwise grant "Targeting p53, cMyc and PRC2 regulatory hubs: A systematic and stratified approach to deliver new therapeutics for CML". Email: rebecca.mitchell@glasgow.ac.uk

Dr Laura Richmond joined Dr Karen Keeshan’s group - “I am a new postdoctoral scientist working in the Keeshan group of the Paul O'Gorman. We're currently focused on investigating some of the molecular mechanisms underpinning AML." Email: laura.richmond@glasgow.ac.uk

Ms Angela Ianniciello joined Dr Vignir Helgason’s group as a Research Assistant. Her role is to work on the KKLF-funded project entitled: "Identifying and Targeting Metabolic Dependencies in Tyrosine Kinase-Driven Myeloid Leukaemias". Email: angela.ianniciello@glasgow.ac.uk

I am Gill Wilson, new GMP Node Project Manager, based between the Laboratory Medicine Building and the Imaging Centre of Excellence. I have a background in IT, Biology and Business Analysis as well a Project Management.  I have worked for a wide range of organisations, businesses and charities. I am excited to be working with the other great staff at the Glasgow Molecular Pathology Node and the Clinical Innovation Team. I am passionate about snow sports and getting on my bike in good weather. Email: gill.wilson@glasgow.ac.uk

In March David Meltzer has moved from Polyomics to GPOL on the 4th floor of the WWCRC. Email: david.meltzer@glasgow.ac.uk

Dr Gavin Brown (PET Chemist) and Dr Robert Bielik (Post-doc) have both joined David Lewis’s group in the Beatson Institute

Wilhelmina Hoevenaar has joined the Beatson Institute

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Awards

The Translational Pharmacology Laboratory (led by Dr Fiona Thomson) successfully renews CR-UK Biomarker Centre of Excellence award

The Translational Pharmacology Laboratory (TPL) has secured renewal of funding from Cancer Research UK’s Centre for Drug Development (CDD) in recognition of its success as a CRUK ‘Biomarker Centre of Excellence’.
The TPL, along with only three others in the UK, had been selected by CDD back in 2017 for its “diverse array of technical and scientific expertise” in the field of cancer biomarker research and funds two post-doctoral scientists, Krishna Yalla and Ellie Tiplady.  Krishna and Ellie have successfully worked in close partnership with CDD scientists to deliver translational biomarker research for Cancer Research UK’s early phase cancer clinical studies, including a first-in-human Phase I trial of LY3177833 Cdc7 inhibitor in Adult Patients with Cancer, led by Richard Wilson.

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Laura Machesky and Rob Insall - Building Collaboration at the Physics of Life Interface

Physics of Life

This award is shared between the following PI’s, all in Glasgow
Laura Machesky- Lead Biology PI
Robert Insall - PI Biology
Danielle Faccio- Lead Physics
Jonathan Taylor- PI Physics
Andrew Harvey- PI Physics
Nikolaj Gadegaard - PI Engineering

“This award is for approx £2M over 3 years and our vision is to build a megapixel FLIM microscope for exploring signaling and motility across large fields of cells at high resolution.  The novelty in the physics is to use computational data fusion to combine information from two different types of camera- a next generation single-photon camera with extremely high temporal resolution and a high temporal resolution (pixel-density) camera.  Together, and with computational rendering, these cameras will allow us to observe rapid transmission of signals across large fields of cells or in 3D structures such as organoids.  This will allow us to gain understanding of how tissues and tumours transmit and receive signals across fields of cells, as opposed to the more standard single-cell analysis, which is normally done”. Prof Laura Mackesky

Award of TRACC Programme: to Train and Retain Academic Cancer Clinicians

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) are committed to finding ways to attract, develop and retain an increasing number of clinician scientists and recently launched a new Clinical Academic Training (CAT) Programme Award to, in part, address this and support higher education institutions such as the University of Glasgow develop an integrated and flexible clinical academic training programme with national and international reach.   

We already have an excellent track record of training and retaining academic cancer clinicians here in the ICS, and are delighted to announce that the Glasgow Cancer Centre has been successful in its bid to receive one of these awards, following a joint application by Professors Owen Sansom, Richard Wilson and Iain McInnes (3Is) and colleagues from the Edinburgh Cancer Centre. The programme will provide high quality research training for 5 annual cohorts of students shared across Glasgow and Edinburgh. There will be funding each year for 3 Clinical Research Training Fellowships (CRTFs) and 4 MB-PhDs (for undergraduate medical students). The CRUK Beatson Institute will also provide an additional CRTF each year, so we should be able to develop a really strong cohort of clinical academic trainees.

Overall, the programme will aim to provide high quality research training that is flexible and diverse, as well as considerable mentorship and support for trainees both during and after their training. We look forward to keeping everyone posted on these new recruits and their progress.

Anyone with questions about the programme should feel free to contact Dr Jackie Beesley (j.beesley@beatson.gla.ac.uk) in the first instance.

Julia Cordero has received a CRUK Pioneer Award

This is a competitive two-year award to fund high-risk, innovative research.

Project Title: ‘Drosophila as a model system to study cancer-driven behavioural changes’

PhD Student News

POG Researchers at British Society of Haematology, 1st -3rd April 2019 in Glasgow

Isla Nosratzadeh, Masters Student (supervisor: Dr Heather Jorgensen) presented her poster entitled “Synergistic effects of FLT3 inhibition with sorfenib and AMP-activated protein kinase activation with GSK621 observed in FLT-3-ITD AML cells in vitro”

Shaun Patterson, PhD student (supervisor:  Dr Xu Huang) presented his poster entitled “Identification of signalling pathways regulated by KDM4A in MLL-AF9 Acute Myeloid Leukaemia via a novel kinase activity screen”.

Matt Massett, PhD student (supervisor:  Dr Xu Huang) presented his talk entitled “Targetting H3K9me3 as a novel therapeutic strategy in mixed lineage leukaemia-rearranged AML (MLLr-AML)”.

Jiska van der Reest started her PhD at the Beatson in 2014, working with Prof Eyal Gottlieb in the Cancer Metabolism Research Unit. She quickly developed an interest in the interplay between cellular metabolism and redox homeostasis. Reactive oxygen species can act as signalling molecular through the reversible oxidation of protein cysteine residues, which modifies protein functions. These oxidative modifications are historically difficult to detect because of their low abundance, and therefore our understanding of how they contribute to cellular signalling and cancer is still limited. In collaboration with the Beatson proteomics department, Jiska developed a new methodology to measure protein cysteine oxidations. This new method, called Stable Isotope Cysteine Labelling with Iodoacetamide (SICyLIA), allows the quantification of about 10,000 modified peptides, a near 3-fold increase compared to previous approaches. This led to new insights into the reciprocal regulation of cellular redox balance and metabolism, and as the method is directly applicable to tissue samples it holds promise for future analysis of patient samples. Since finishing her PhD in December, Jiska has been working in the Philippines for the social enterprise GOViral, which she co-founded last year. GOViral aims to break the cycle of hepatitis transmission in the Philippines by facilitating access to testing and treatment through digital healthcare infrastructures. In April, she will start as a Research Fellow in the lab of Prof Marcia Haigis at Harvard Medical School to continue her research on redox metabolism in the context of cancer.

Nikos Panagiotou from Paul Shiels group passed his PhD viva in February 2019.

Dr Ailsa Holroyd, Honorary Clinical Lecturer (supervisor – Dr Alison Michie) was awarded her PhD.

POG PhD student Caroline Busch got the opportunity to present her work at the BMP Signalling in Cancer II meeting in Oxford in April.  This was entitled “Development of a 3D bone marrow model to investigate potential combinational therapy of leukaemia stem cells using BMP and second generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors”

Narissa Parry PhD student based at POG and supervised by Prof Mhairi Copland: “This summer, I’m going to be traveling to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, to learn a newly-developed technique that can be used to identify which survival proteins cancer cells are dependent upon, with the view to identifying druggable targets. My research area is in the most advanced stage of chronic myeloid leukaemia, and these survival pathways are often deregulated in leukaemia. I’m hoping to create a better picture of whether these proteins are potential therapeutic targets in what is a very difficult disease to treat. In order to fund the travel, I applied through MVLS to the Wellcome Trust’s competitive Institutional Strategic Support Fund, aimed at bringing new techniques and collaborations back to the College. I was successful in my application and in August and I will be traveling to one the most renowned research centres in the world. The support and funding schemes provided by MVLS have made this possible, and the placement will be an invaluable opportunity for me to develop as a researcher.”

MSc Student News

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 Well done to everyone!

Publications and publicity

David Lewis “Imaging Cancer Metabolism with Positron Emission Tomography (PET)”
Oliver Maddocks also has a chapter in this publication.
Witney T.H., Lewis D.Y. (2019) Imaging Cancer Metabolism with Positron Emission Tomography (PET). In: Haznadar M. (eds) Cancer Metabolism. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1928. Humana Press, New York, NY

Julia Cordero and Owen Sansom’s labs have collaborated and produced a paper titled “RAL GTPases Drive Intestinal Stem Cell Function and Regeneration through Internalization of WNT Signalosomes” published in Cell magazine.

Kristina Kirschner’s lab has had a paper accepted as co-corresponding author on “Notch signalling mediating secondary senescence” funded through Kristina’s ISSF Fellowship. It was published by Cell Reports on 23th of April. From CRUK, Tom Bird and his student Christos Kiourtis and Myriam Muller are co-authors.

Seth Coffelt has collaborated on a paper entitled “Therapeutic targeting of macrophages enhances chemotherapy efficacy by unleashing type I interferon response.”
Salvagno C, Ciampricotti M, Tuit S, Hau CS, van Weverwijk A, Coffelt SB, Kersten K, Vrijland K, Kos K, Ulas T, Song JY, Ooi CH, Rüttinger D, Cassier PA, Jonkers J, Schultze JL, Ries CH, de Visser KE.
Nat Cell Biol. 2019 Apr;21(4):511-521.

Paul Shiels group has had a recent paper feature in UK Research and Innovation Headlines

“Bad neighbourhoods lead to accelerated ageing” UKRI

Further coverage:

The Scotsman   Daily Express   i News

Prof Shiels also gave a keynote presentation at the Astellas Cutting edge Science meeting in Copenhagen in March and two presentations at the Intricare symposium in Maastricht the same week.

Open Access Update

Dr Mary Donaldson, Research Information Management Service, will will no longer be based at the WWCRC; however she can be contacted on the email addresses listed below. 

She will be able to give advice on the following topics:

• General information and support on Open Access
• Open Access for REF
• Research Data Management
• Reporting your research outcomes to funders

If you have any queries please contact the Open Access Team at: research-openaccess@glasgow.ac.uk or research-datamanagement@glasgow.ac.uk

Events update

Love was in the air during the well attended Valentines event...

...over 30 ICS staff and students turned out to support our International Women’s Day coffee morning on 8th March where proceeds from the cake sale went to the Marie Curie Charity.

The Women in Research Network (WiRN) Health & Wellbeing workshop held at the Garscube Estate on 27th February was a huge success.

Organised as part of the Institute's Athena SWAN good health initiative this event provides a range of information and workshop activities relating to mental health and wellbeing.

Dr Maria Gardani gave a talk on how to achieve a good night’s sleep and how poor sleep can affect your physical and mental health and overall quality of life.

Prof Lawrence Barsalou covered the psychological mechanisms that produce stress, and gave an overview of strategies for working with these mechanisms, including a brief introduction to mindfulness.

Dr Catherine Lido provided a brief session on Pilates and the benefits on your health & wellbeing from doing Pilates.

Dr Chiara Horlin led the short dance session with 60’s dance moves.

The Institute also ran a half an hour Mindfulness session in the WWCRC Seminar Room on 24th April at lunchtime. This session, delivered by UofG Sport, demonstrated strategies to help you cope with work challenges in a positive manner and protect your mental wellbeing. Effective coping skills are key to working through the negative challenges in life, allowing you to put negative situations into perspective.

Dates for your diary:

1st May 2019 – Joint celebration to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the opening of the WWCRC building and the submission of the Athena SWAN Silver Award application. Join us for tea and cake on 1st May at 10.30am in the WWCRC Café.

‌The Social Committee is dedicated in providing fun opportunities for ICS staff and students to come together and get to know each other better. It’s important for a workplace to have an element of fun, time to down tools and talk to the people with whom you spend most of your week with, about something other than work!

If you are interested in joining the ICS Social Committee please contact: cancersci-ins-social@glasgow.ac.uk

@ICS_SC

Current ICS Social Committee members are: Angela Campbell (Admin/Chairperson); Jo Thomson (Admin); Maureen Watt (Admin); Kathryn Pennel (PhD Student); Quarat Al-Wahid (PGR Student); Sharon Burns (Technical); Eric Kalkman (Technical); Shaun Patterson (PhD Student - POG); Liam Hayman (PhD Student); Iain Turner (Central Services)

As of 1st April 19 the No. 15 Glasgow city bus which runs along Switchback road and passes the main campus will be reducing its service to once an hour.

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Travel survey 2019

The Travel Survey 2019 is now open and can be accessed here

The results of the travel survey will be published in May. Further information on measures and initiatives mentioned in the survey can be found on the University's Travel Planning webpages here

The survey is expected to run until Friday, 3rd May, but you can continue to feed back on travel issues after that to travelplanning@glasgow.ac.uk.

Participating staff and students can enter in a prize draw to win:
•    one of 2 x £150 shopping vouchers,
•    one of 10 x £50 shopping vouchers or
•    one of 10 x £25 National Book Tokens.


Technician Commitment Launch Event for Technical Staff on the 20th May.

The University is hosting a launch event for the Technician Commitment on the afternoon of the 20th May 2019 in the Sir Charles Wilson Building. This is an opportunity for you to come along and hear about the Technician Commitment and how you, as a member of the Technical & Specialist job family, can get involved.

It is a chance for technical staff to hear about some of the exciting initiatives and how to get involved, but more importantly a chance to engage in shaping the Technician Commitment at The University of Glasgow and the challenges facing the technical community and the University’s Action Plan that has been agreed to ensure visibility; recognition; career development and sustainability for the University’s technician population.

We hope as many of the ICS Technicians can make it along to the event on the 20th May. It is also a great opportunity to meet other technicians from right across the University at the Networking lunch.
#bytechniciansfortechnicians.

This is a free event open to all Technician's across the University, however advance booking is required via the Eventbrite link provided below*:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/technician-commitment-launch-event-tickets-58429369818

If you would like further information on the Technician’s Commitment, you can access the Technician Commitment Portal via the undernoted link:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/techniciancommitment/

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