London Tubular Centre in St Andrews at the Membrane Transport 2023 conference

The London Tubular Centre have just returned from a hugely successful conference at The Physiological Society's Membrane Transport 2023 meeting in St Andrews, where every single group member was presenting either a poster or an oral communication.

Highlights included a breakfast meeting with laboratory groups based in Edinburgh and St Andrews to share ideas and techniques, and fostering new links between renal tubular physiologists across the UK.

Keith spoke to the meeting about our 'space kidney project', in collaboration with researchers at NASA, ESA, SpaceX and JAXA. Other group members presented a broad range of very well-received work, from clinic studies and wet-lab characterisation of cell models, to computer modelling of kidney imaging and futuristic organ-on-chip models of the kidney.

Time was also found to explore and discover the beauty of St. Andrew's and plenty of fun was had taking part in the conference dinner and ceilidh. We are, as always, grateful to our funders (Kidney Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, UK Space Agency and the Catholic University of Rome), and on this occasion especially grateful to The Physiological Society for organising the meeting and awarding travel grants to Eunice Zhong, Keith Siew and Ben Walsh.