Hyman Lab News
The National Academy of Sciences elected new members...
...and we are happy that Tony got elected as well! Congratulations from the whole lab. The Academy has around 2400 members amd Tony will be one of only 500 international Scientist in the Academy.
Tony receives NOMIS award and is now a NOMIS distinguished scientist
Swiss-based NOMIS foundation awarded Tony and the lab $2.5 million for our project "Phase Transitions and Biological Condensates: The Molecular Sociology of Cell Organization"
Die neue Biologie der Tröpfchen
Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel article of Sascha Karberg about the discovery and applications of phase separation. (German language only)
Our kinetochore paper is selected for the 65th birthday collection of JCB
For the collection celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Journal of Cell biology, our paper Functional Analysis of Kinetochore Assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans was selected for its contribution to “dissecting the mechanics of cell division”.
Tony wins 2020 Wiley Prize in Biomolecular Sciences
Tony wins the 19th annual prize together with Clifford Brangwynne of Princeton university and Michael Rosen of the Southwestern University in Texas for their work on defining phase-separated biomolecular condensates.
Enrichment of soluble tubulin at centrosomes
Recent work from Dresden (2017) suggests that centrosomes are condensates that nucleate in part by concentrating soluble tubulin. Here we show that indeed tubulin is extremely concentrated at centrosome in C. elegans embryos, suggesting that such a tubulin concentration could indeed play a key role in nucleation.