Hyman Lab News
New Two Minute Talk! Elisabeth explains mitotic cell rounding
In the latest addition to our "Two Minute Talk" series, postdoc Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich explains the biophysics of why and how cells become round during mitosis.
Spot Tony!
Spot 25-year-old Tony in this lineup of predoc photos from the LMB, discovered when he was there for the Alumni Symposium earlier this month!
Lens on Life premiers in Rome
Lens on Life, a traveling art exhibition inspired by cell division, premiered this month at the Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome, Italy. The exhibition is rooted in the MitoSys Project, an EU-funded research consortium composed of labs from eight different European countries
Congratulations to Jeff & Oliver on their contribution to "The centrosome renaissance"
This volume features 18 articles reflecting “direct and indirect input of some 50 leading scientists in the field” of centrosome biology. Jeff Woodruff, Oliver Wueseke, and Tony contributed a review
New publication: "Centrosomes are autocatalytic droplets of pericentriolar material organized by centrioles"
This work proposes “a theoretical description of centrosomes as liquid droplets,” drawing on our knowledge of phase separation in the cytoplasm.
Congratulations to Avinash on his Humboldt Fellowship
Our postdoc Avinash Patel has just been awarded a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his work on phase transitions of cellular processes.