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Happy New Year from the Hyman Lab!

Wishing you and yours a wonderful 2015. Enjoy this artwork created by lab member Oliver Wueseke, titled “Ying Yang Worms.”

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Santa visits the lab

Avinash and Shamba are hard at work in the lab this Christmas break, so a secret Santa made them a special advent calendar to carry them through the Christmas and New Year’s. We’re curious to find out what those envelopes hold. Wishing everyone happy holidays and a wonderful 2015, from all of us in the […]

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Listen to Tony’s radio interview about Christmas traditions

Tony was interviewed by the radio program MDR Figaro about his Christmas traditions and memories. Listen to the full story here! (In German) Copyright Heike Schwarzer/MDR Figaro Read the description in English (translated by Tony) and German below: Anthony Hyman is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology in Dresden, has lived for […]

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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! The whole party was fabulously organized by Reni Schimmel and […]

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Christmas Market season is here!

There is no denying the magic of the Dresden Christmas Markets, and the season is finally upon us. The Hyman lab took it’s annual outing on Tuesday, Dec 2 and visited one of our favorites, the Neumarkt Christmas market, for some Feuerzangenbowle, Handbrot, and fun. Happy Adventszeit (Advent/Christmas Season) everyone!

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Grad students build a microscope from scratch

Hyman lab graduate student Beatriz Gomes built a microscope from scratch last week! 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. The students were supervised by Jahr Wiebke, a PhD student in […]

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More photos added from trip to Lisbon for #EMBOCentrosome

Here’s Oliver Wueseke, Julia Mahamid, Tony Hyman, Jeff Woodruff, Beatriz Ferreira Gomes, and Ben Engel in Lisbon for the EMBO Conference on Centrosomes. You can now see additional photos on our lab fun page!

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Tony, arm wrestling champion

Tony has potential PhD students arm wrestle him for a spot in the lab! Or….at least he does in this clip from the video made by the DIPP PhD students for selection week. 🙂 Have a look by clicking on the photo below.

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See the stunning artwork that resulted from Tony’s MitoSys dialogue with Lucy + Jorge Orta

Last year, Tony was paired with artists Lucy + Jorge Orta for an ongoing dialogue about science, art, and cell division as part of the MitoSys Project. Dialogues between 4 pairs of artists and scientists led to works of art that were presented in the traveling Lens on Life exhibition. Now you can view photos of the beautiful […]

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Hyman Lab retreat and vision

The entire Hyman Lab took a trip to the beautiful city of Meißen this week for our annual retreat.

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