Updates during COVID-19 pandemic

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We are still alive and continue to work!

Over the past month of nation-wide work restrictions and subsequent lockdown our team did not stay idle and we participated in a number of research, collaborative and teaching activities.

- Shortly before the lockdown we finalised our new manuscript reporting new biosensor scaffold materials reporting extracellular calcium dynamics in 3D organoid model. The preprint version is available on BioRxiv.


- Together with Dr. M. Monaghan group (Trinity College Dublin) Dr. Dmitriev co-authored a review book chapter on optical imaging approaches employed in tissue engineering. This book chapter has been published as part of Springer Reference Series in Biomedical Engineering. The text (free to the members of TERMIS) is available here. Twitter link


- Members of the team in collaboration with Hubrecht Institute has prepared a book chapter for a book 'Intestinal Stem Cells', which is edited by Paloma Ordonez-Moran and will be published by Springer in July 2020. More information on this project can be found here.

- A number of new grant applications are in progress including recently submitted SFI/ EI/ IDA COVID-19 funding (decision pending). More details will be provided soon, if we get funded! 

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