Hyman Lab News
The Hyman lab gets glamorous for the MPI Christmas Party
Last Friday, Dec 12 was the annual MPI-CBG Christmas party, and this year the theme was “CBG: Chic, Beautiful, Glamorous.” The dress code was black tie, and it was great to see so many people decked out in their finest, including Tony in his tux!
Jeff Woodruff speaking today at ASCB
He will be speaking at 6:05pm in Minisymposium 16: Microtubule Assemblies and their Functions, giving a talk entitled, "Regulated assembly of a supramolecular centrosome scaffold in vitro."
New publication stitches together EM slices into detailed mitotic spindle
This paper introduces a computational method which addresses the complex task of digitally aligning many serial electron tomography slices to create a complete, 3D image of spindles.
Congratulations to new dad, Alex Bird
The Hyman lab sends its warm and happy congratulations to our former postdoc Alex Bird (now a Group Leader at the MPI for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund) on the arrival of his son, Nils.
Grad students build a microscope from scratch
On November 20, as part of the PhD Student Practical Course, a small group of predocs built a SPIM microscope (for Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy) in the lab of Jan Huisken.