Monthly Archives: September 2016

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.

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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. P granules are liquid-like compartments that segregate to the posterior end of the one-cell embryo before cell division. Previous work in […]

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“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. The topic is just as relevant today as it was 20 years ago. Maybe it’s time to implement Tony’s two-dimensional […]

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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.

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