Queen's Birthday Honour for Professor Susan Standring

Professor Susan Standring, former Head of the Anatomy Department, now Emeritus Professor and Editor-in-Chief of Gray's Anatomy received an MBE in this year's Birthday Honours.

Two Anatomical Society Summer Studentship successes

The Anatomical Society has awarded Summer Studentships to two undergraduate students in the Anatomy Department 

• Toby Andrews "The developmental basis of branchial anomalies" to work with Professor Anthony Graham
• Tom Baxter "A genetic anatomy of the inhibitory neurons in the avian first order auditory nuclei" to work with Dr Richard Wingate

Service of Thanksgiving for Body Donation: May 15th

The annual service of thanksgiving for all who donated their bodies to medical and biomedical education will be held at Southwark Cathedral at 11 am on Friday May 15th. The service is organised by the London Anatomy Office on behalf of the London and South East Committee of Anatomists

Lectures in Life Sciences: From DNA to diversity: did new genes drive animal evolution?

Professor Peter Holland 
Department Zoology, University of Oxford

Thursday May 21st at 5.00 pm in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus

Lectures in Life Sciences: New tools in Forensic Science: the role of the biosciences

Dr Patricia Wiltshire

Thursday 29th March 5.00pm

Percy Robert’s Room    

Gordon Museum

Hodgkin Building    

Guy’s Campus

Parallel Practice outcomes

The Parallel Practices makers-in-residence scheme at the Anatomy Department ended in December 2014. Some of the outcomes:

Short piece Richard Wingate and Tamsin van Essen in the March/April edition of Ceramic Review Magazine

Interview with Tamsin van Essen, Celia Pym and other project artists in Crafts Magazine (issue 253)

David Beazley's short film about the Parallel Practices project.

Parallel Practices: photographs and film

The Parallel Practices art and science collaborations in the Anatomy Department generated enormous interest over their short run.

You can see some of the outcomes of the residencies in a pictorial collection for Celia Pym and a short film for Tamsin van Essen