Dr Adam Shellard awarded BSCB Postdoc Research Medal 2022

The BSCB postdoctoral researcher medal award recognises early career researchers who have made a major contribution to UK/Ireland Cell Biology during their postdoctoral training.

Dr Adam Shellard is a postdoc at UCL Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. He studied developmental biology at the University of Manchester, with a spell at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He received his PhD at University College London in Cell and Developmental Biology, studying how neural crest cells undergo chemotaxis in Xenopus and zebrafish embryos in the group of Roberto Mayor. Adam won the Sammy Lee at the YEN meeting for this work. He then transitioned to mechanobiology, investigating the role of stiffness and mechanical interplay between tissues for in vivo collective cell migration, discovering that cells can generate and follow their own stiffness gradients in vivo to enable persistent directional movement (published in Nature). He also established the cell migration seminar series that has been running virtually since the start of the pandemic.

You can follow Adam @AdamShellard on Twitter.