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Photo from lab dinner at ASCB

By Carsten | Published: December 15, 2016

Here’s a quick photo from last week’s Hyman lab dinner during ASCB 2016 in San Francisco! It was great to see former members like Laurence Pelletier and Garrett Greenan, as well as collaborators Elvan Boke and Marco Hein. See you next year at the joint ASCB/EMBO meeting in Philadelphia!

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Annual Christmas Market outing

By Carsten | Published: December 15, 2016

After Tony’s annual vision talk at our “Lab Day,” everyone gathered for glühwein and cheer at our traditional trip to the Neumarkt Christmas Market. Happy holidays, everyone!

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The most colorful safety briefing

By Carsten | Published: December 15, 2016

Our brilliant baker and Masters student Stephen helped make the annual safety briefing much more festive this year. Check out his incredible rainbow cake! 

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Photos from the International Congress of Cell Biology in Prague

By Carsten | Published: August 1, 2016

The 12th meeting of the International Congress of Cell Biology was held in Prague on July 21-25. Many Hyman lab members attended and had a fantastic trip. Thank you to the meeting organizers!

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Tony at the bench

By Carsten | Published: July 6, 2016

We’ve been sent some proof that Tony, Jeff, and Richard are hard at work in Woods Hole. 🙂

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Hyman Lab retreat in Poland

By Carsten | Published: June 30, 2016

Take a look at the Hyman Lab’s trip to Poland last month! We had two and a half days of lively scientific discussions and fun at the beautiful Pałac Brunów in Lwówek Śląski, Poland. Lab members gave chalk talks on the topic of their scientific question and what they hope to achieve in the coming year. This […]

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Biscuit, the group leader

By Carsten | Published: January 13, 2016

Here’s a short, funny clip that was filmed as part of a movie for the birthday celebration and symposium of MPI-CBG Director Eli Knust. If only Eli had let Tony make Biscuit a new group leader when she was the managing director!

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ASCB, when the “S” stands for surfing

By Carsten | Published: January 11, 2016

Tony, Avinash, Jeff, and Shamba had a great time at the ASCB meeting in San Diego last month. Tony and Jeff even managed to get in a surfing session! Here’s a few photos, snapped by Avinash.

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Happy holidays from the Hyman Lab!

By Carsten | Published: December 16, 2015

Here’s a photo from last week’s annual lab Christmas market outing (with lots of glühwein on hand). Wishing everyone wonderful holidays and a happy new year!  

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Annual lab retreat in Meissen

By Carsten | Published: September 25, 2015

The Hyman lab went on our second annual retreat to the town of Meissen on September 4. Tony gave his annual vision talk, we had lots of great discussions, and then went on a walk around the beautiful Meissen Altstadt (old city). See a few photos of the day below!

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  • Selected Videos


    iBio video about P granule formation


    An interview with Tony about Phase Transitions and Disease


    Phase separation in cell polarity: Saha et al, Cell 2016


    Encouraging Innovation, iBiology.org


    The genetics linking temperature and fertility in worms: Leaver et al, Biology Open 2016


    Cell PaperFlick on Phase Transitions in Disease


    Check out this playlist to watch all the videos in our "Two Minute Talk" Series


    Ways of Growing, a film created for the MitoSys Project


    What is a Discovery?


    Embryonic Development of C.elegans