Hyman Lab News
Congratulations to Oliver, Jeff, and colleagues on their paper & video abstract in Biology Open, investigating regulation of centrosome assembly
In new work published this month in Biology Open, Oliver Wueseke, David Zwicker, Jeff Woodruff, and colleagues show that PKL-1 phosphorylation of the centrosome scaffold protein SPD-5 is a key regulatory step which determines centrosome size and density.
Read our reviews to learn about "Liquid-liquid phase separation in biology", "Are aberrant phase transitions a driver of cellular aging?", and "Biomolecular condensates: organizers of cellular biochemistry"
Everything you ever wanted to know about our current understanding of cytoplasmic organization by phase separation, from the physics behind it to the consequences for disease, in one comprehensive review
Welcome, Ceciel, our newest PhD student!
The Hyman Lab welcomes Ceciel Jegers, our newest PhD student. Ceciel comes to us from the Netherlands, and she will be working on phase transitions in cells and disease.
Congratulations to Shamba on his paper in Cell on the positioning of liquid-like compartments through an RNA competition mechanism. Plus - video abstract!
In a collaboration with the group of Frank Jülicher at the MPI-PKS, Shamba Saha and colleagues have discovered that an RNA-competition mechanism is at the heart of correct P granule positioning in C. elegans.
"No man is an island": an essay from the archives about the value of collaboration
In 1996, when Tony was a group leader at the EMBL, he wrote an essay for Current Biology entitled “No man is an island” on the importance of long-term collaboration and shared credit in science
An interview with Tony in "Lab Times", news magazine for the European Life Sciences
Read Tony’s interview with Lab Times, in which he discusses peer review, gender equality, open access, and more.