Melissa Bowerman

@bowermanlab.bsky.social

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Professor of Neuromuscular & Skeletal Disorders, Keele University. I research pathologies and new treatments in rare neuromuscular & skeletal disorders. www.thebowermanlab.com

Book cover of Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler showing a red bird
Academic poster on our research on Acrodystosis Type 2
Book cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler showing a black woman in a red dress.
Book cover of Patriot by Alexei Navalny showing his face.
Book cover of The Children of Men by P.D. James showing dark skies, trees and red berries.
Book cover of Normal People by Sally Rooney showing two people cuddling in a can of sardines.
Book cover of This is Big by Marisa Meltzer showing a picture of the founder of Weight Watchers.
Canal and boats
Book cover of Poor by Katriona O’Sullivan showing a young female child climbing up a wall.
Book cover of The Other Mothers by Kettering Faulkner showing silhouettes of two women through a window.
Book cover of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo showing pictures of black women
Research poster
Picture of Ph.D. supervisor Rashmi Kothary and me.
Scientific research poster
White pair of sneakers
Me standing beside our research poster
White sneakers inside a suitcase
Book cover of The Exceptions by Kate Zernike showing women sitting at lab benches and looking through microscopes.
Sign reading SMA Europe 1st International Clinical Care Symposium on spinal muscular atrophy
Breakfast plates and book
Slide showing my title: targeting Klf15 for the treatment of SMA.
Book cover of My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell showing a long red-haired braid.
Me dancing at the restaurant
Fossil
My name tag and conference welcome sign
Kunming sign and street
View of plane window and wing
White and black cat sleeping on my lap beside my computer…
Sunrise with mountains and trees
Book cover of It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover depicting whit flowers
Book cover of It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover depicting damaged pink lilies.
Book cover of At the Table by Claire Powell showing a girl with her face in a cake
Book cover of Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood depicting a sailboat.
Book cover of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus shoeing a woman in a front of a table with food.
Feet with a view of trees and mountains.
Book cover of Maame by Jessica George depicting a Black woman in an orange dress.
Book cover of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett showing daisies.
Book cover of The Fraud by Zadie Smith depicting two lions in the top corners.
Book cover of Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li depicting a figure walking in a forest.
Book cover of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver showing a red-haired child looking out a yellow bus window.
Text message from son asking me to call as I am away and dad is not good at washing..
Research poster
Photo of name badge and programme of research talks.
Book cover of Girl A by Abigail Dean showing a yellow letter A covering the face of a girl.
Book cover of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Depiction of a woman in traditional Korean dress.
Book cover of The Big Story by Morris West.
Rotterdam Harbor area with water, boats and buildings in the background.
Book cover of icon by Jeffrey Young and William Simon.
Daughter and partner sitting side by side in restaurant.
Canal, boats and buildings in Leiden.
Book cover of Untamed by Glennon Doyle.
Scheveningen beach