So many unknowns! #microplastics An excellent meet the experts session at #EASLcongress2025 #LiverSky @plymouthmarine.bsky.social @hepatoresearch.bsky.social

Our Plymouth Team at EASL conference in Amsterdam discussing plastic pollution & liver disease
@easlnews.bsky.social
@plymouthmarine.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @uhpnhs.bsky.social

🌷We can't wait to see you at #EASLCongress 2025 in just a little while! 🌷

🗓️ 7-10 May, Amsterdam and online - Register now!
www.easlcongress.eu/2025-registr...

☄️ Check the programme and plan your schedule! www.easlcongress.eu/2025-scienti...

Let's shape the future of liver disease care!

Professor Richard Thompson, who led the first study using the term microplastics to describe the microscopic fragments of plastic polluting the global ocean, has been named by TIME among its list of the world’s 100 most influential people of 2025.
www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/micropl...

📷(c) A.K.Purkiss

We are #hiring a PhD Student to join our Environmental Hepatology lab! This is a very exciting project unravelling biofilm coated plastics as drivers of liver inflammation and damage. More info:
lnkd.in/dcESZmrd

A great evening prepared by
@Paula__Boeira
&
@TamarAvades
to welcome our new HRG member Shilpa Chokshi. Shilpa was the winner of our new brand trophy! Well done! 👏🏆

Thanks to Matthew Cramp and Louisa Vine for organising a fantastic SW Hep Group meeting. Excellent speakers. Great venue. And well done to the early morning runners! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️
Blessed to be living and working here with such fab colleagues @uhpnhs.bsky.social @hepatoresearch.bsky.social

The beginning of our Environmental Hepatology research lab ✨
Head of the lab: Shilpa Chokshi
First post doc: Paula Boeira
Watch this space 👀

HRG Christmas Meal with our annual Christmas Quiz. Tamar was the big winner once again! Congrats 👏🏻🎅🏻