Hyman Lab News
Team "Wormstorm" at the BiOlympics
The BiOlympics, a huge multi-institute event with over 160 participants, took place this past weekend, Sept 12-13. The Hyman Lab and the Grill Lab combined forces to create team “Wormstorm”!
Congratulations to Elisabeth on her paper about the biophysics of mitotic cell rounding
Hyman lab postdoc Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich –you may remember her Two Minute Talk on Cell Rounding! — has just published a paper on the work she discussed in her video.
Tony gives talk at VBC Seminar Series in Vienna
Today Tony gave a talk on "Liquid like compartments in cells: Implications for polarity and disease" at the VBC Seminar Series at the Vienna Biocenter.
Farewell to Ina & Mai
All of us here in the Hyman lab wish a warm farewell and the best of luck to two of our long time staff members, Ina Poser and Mai Thuong Pham, as they each move on to the next steps in their careers.
Groundbreaking event for the Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD)
The mission of the Center is "to study integrated biological systems and processes using computational and theoretical approaches in close collaboration with experimentalists."
Congratulations to Oliver on his paper, which illuminates the state of PCM components in the cytoplasm
This work, led by graduate student Oliver Wueseke and just published in Molecular Biology of the Cell, shows that these PCM components interact only in the context of PCM assembly, and not in the cytoplasm.