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Why not join us on Monday 19th December 2011 between 3 & 4.30pm to support the Group & have a great afternoon tea! The Thistle Hotel on Brighton seafront are not only hosting the event but kindly sponsoring us as well. We are asking for donations of minimum £7.50 per person per afternoon tea, which will include 1 free raffle ticket. This event is nearly fully booked but if you would still like to come, please contact us asap.
Join us at our Xmas party – Wednesday 14th December 2011, 7.30 pm at Chapel Royal, North Street, Brighton. The guest Speaker is Shankar Kanumakala, Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Alex (with a specialty in Diabetes). Please let us know if you are coming so that we can cater for numbers attending as there will be food & drinks available on the evening.
The next General Meeting of the Group will be on Wednesday 13th July at the Chapel Royal in North Street Brighton. The meeting will start at 7.30 so please be there by around 7.15 to ensure a prompt start. Our Guest Speaker will be Martin Lodemore from the Diabetes Research Foundation. Martin came to us about 18 months ago and his talk was very interesting. We are delighted that he has agreed to come again. As usual there will be a Fund Raising Raffle and refreshments will be available. Prizes include a £20 Marks and Spencer Gift Voucher kindly donated by M & S.
Please let us know if you are coming so that we can cater sufficiently
Martin Lodemore - Diabetes Research Foundation
L to R. Edward (Researcher) Michelle (Researcher) Dr Claire Marriott, Sandeep (Researcher) Dr Wendy Macfarlane and James (Researcher)
On Friday 11th June, 15 group members and family members enjoyed a visit to the Lab. Dr Claire Marriott and Dr Wendy MacFarlane together with researchers Michelle, Edward, James and Sandeep made us all very welcome. We were shown around the Tissue Culture Suite, where Michelle demonstrated the work she is doing. Edward and James then explained the Molecular Biology Research Lab and then Sandeep showed us the Image and Analysis Unit.
Michelle at work in the Oxygen Control Unit
It was fascinating to see ‘live’ tissue cells and cultures being ‘grown’ in platforms in 3D.
Edward extracting live cells in the Molecular Biology Lab
Images enlarged by up to 1 million million times were on view in the Image and Analysis Unit
Section of a spiders leg
Kathy Doughty
Ian Scott
Tony Young
Heather Young
Alex Hawkey (Adviser)
Casey Zils
This is to introduce your Committee to you.
Following the AGM in March the following members were elected to the committee.
Chair. Kathy Doughty
Secretary. Ian Scott
Treasurer. Nagi Gilada
Committee.
Heather Young, Tony Young, John Impett, Jim Mann, Heather Jackson and Casey Zils.
After an appeal for a new Treasurer, Nagi Gilada offered his services and he was formally co-opted to the Committee at the April Committee Meeting.
On Tuesday 19th April, a varied band of 18 people attended Bowlplex at Brighton Marina on a lovely spring evening. With 4 lanes, it was brilliant value for only £2 each (thanks to a subsidy from the group & the venue). In retrospect, at that price we maybe should have had more than one game! Although not a competition, we think 127 may have been the highest score (Jim Mann, committee member) – unless anybody else knows different. Afterwards a few adjourned to a local pub (of which there was a good choice) and others commented that they were surprised we didn’t hold more bowling events, as they were so much fun – a point noted by the committee members that attended.
On Saturday 16th April, Ian, Tony and Heather from the committee attended an afternoon quiz hosted by the Parkinson’s Society at Bishop Hannington Church in Hove. Ian provided a bank of questions on classical music (with pre-prepared soundtrack) and there were equally challenging questions around the Eurovision Song contest and more popular music. It was quite uplifting to meet such a lively and pleasant group of people, despite their debilitating condition. Some of them also had diabetes! There was raffle and refreshments. They have a really good committee, essential to keep these groups alive.
We’re lucky to have a Diabetes Research Group in Brighton and twelve people took the opportunity to view the research labs at the University of Brighton’s Huxley Building.
The group would like to thank Dr Adrian Bone, Dr Moira Harrison and Dr Claire Marriott for their hospitality and kindness in arranging the tours.
If you missed out this time, we will be running a second tour on Friday 10th June, meeting at 6:15 for a 6:30pm start. Contact us for more information.
Click on the thumbnail below to see a larger photo of the people on the tour with Dr Adrian Bone and Dr Claire Marriott.
We now have a brand new website and are looking forward to launching more features. The site will be more up-to-date on a more regular basis and includes the news feeds down the right-hand side of the page.
You can also vote in our polls on the left, add us on Facebook and please contact us if you have an inspiring diabetes-related story you’d like to share with the world!
You can still access the old site by clicking here.
Thanks to Dan @ PCEazy for setting up the new site.
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