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30 April

Review by Franck Pichaud in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Fluorescent photoreceptors in fruit fly eye

PAR-Complex and Crumbs Function During Photoreceptor Morphogenesis and Retinal Degeneration
Franck Pichaud, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, DOI 10.3389/fncel.2018.00090

26 April

Tha Acton Lab is awarded a CRUK-UCL Centre Development Fund

Harnessing our immune system could lead to a future where cancer is curable and non-recurring. Many research approaches have focused towards this aim. The Acton Lab has described mechanisms controlling the physical expansion of lymph nodes, and therefore the scale of adaptive immune responses.

17 April

Kasia Plak on her recent Nature Methods paper

Congratulations to Dr. Katarzyna (Kasia) Plak from the Baum Lab for her new paper “Real-time fluorescence and deformability cytometry” published in Nature Methods.

11 April

Publication in Cancer Cell for Janos Kriston-Vizi and Robin Ketteler

Network of gene expression profiles in Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour

New publication in Cancer Cell for Janos Kriston-Vizi and Robin Ketteler examines the molecular signature of canine tumour regression.

Reviewed in ScienceDaily here.

11 April

Alejandra Guzman-Herrera awarded the UCL Overseas Research Scholarship

Fluorescent images of Drosophila wing disc

Congratulations to Alejandra Guzman-Herrera of the Mao Lab, who has been awarded the UCL Overseas Research Scholarship.

10 April

Jason Mercer tells the story behind the paper

Jason Mercer and co-author Bernd Wollscheid (ETH Zurich) tell the story behind their recent paper in Nature Microbiology:

09 April

Rhian Walther on her recent Journal of Cell Science paper

Cartoon of epithelial cell to cell contacts

We've asked Rhian Walther from the Pichaud Lab to tell us about her recent publication in Journal of Cell Science:

What discoveries led you to the research described in your publication?

Studying how epithelial cell-cell contacts are formed so that these cells can assemble into organs has be

09 April

Christina Dix on her recent Developmental Cell paper

Congratulations to the Baum Lab for their publication “The Role of Mitotic Cell-Substrate Adhesion Re-modeling in Animal Cell Division” in Developmental Cell.

26 March

Alessandro Bossio is one of the BSCB 2018 Image Competition winners

Congratulations to Alessandro Bossio, Salinas Lab! He is one of the winners of the 2018 BSCB Image Competition.

To know more about Alessandro and the image, click here.

28 February

MRC Insight | Behind the picture - How fly eye cells get their shape

Insight, the MRC blog, ask the Pichaud lab about the story behind the picture. How do fly eye cells get their shape? Why do fly eyes matter? And how can studying fruit fly eyes help us fight cancer in humans? Franck Pichaud and Rhian Walther explain all.

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