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15 September

Obituary | Mary Price

We are extremely saddened by the death of Mary Price, a long-standing and popular member of our technical laboratory support team.  Mary had worked with us at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL since 2002 and was an exceptionally hard-working member of the team.

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04 September

Interview | Cell scientist to watch – Yanlan Mao

Yanlan Mao is interviewed for the Journal of Cell Science ‘Cell scientists to watch’ series. Read the interview here.

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26 August

New publication in Nature for Baum lab

Immunostaining in yeast cells

As eukaryotic cells divide, the nucleus must be remodelled into two distinct compartments, each encapsulating a single copy of the genome. Eukaryotes have evolved a bewildering range of strategies to achieve this - at one extreme, by disassembling the entire structure as cells begin to divide and reassembling it once division is almost complete.

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07 August

New publication in Science for Baum lab

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Many archaea use ESCRT-III to divide, but how is it controlled? In a new publication in Science, the Baum lab shows that the proteasome, which is conserved in both eukaryotes and archaea, is key to the process.

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05 August

Yanlan Mao awarded 2021 RMS Life Sciences Medal

Yanlan Mao has been awarded the 2021 Royal Microscopical Society Life Sciences Medal, in recognition of her contribution to our understanding of how cells and tissues are shaped and organised during the developmental process. 

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17 July

Greeners Team win GOLD in 2020 UCL Sustainability Awards

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Congratulations to the Greeners Team, for their continuining outstanding effort in promoting sustainability and environmental awareness at the LMCB.

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15 July

New publication in Nature Communications for de Bruin lab

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In order for a cell to proliferate with fidelity, it must cycle through two non-overlapping events - replication of the genomic DNA during S phase and the segregation of the duplicated DNA into two genetically identical daughter cells during M phase. DNA replication is tightly regulated during S-phase. S-phase length is determined by DNA synthesis rate, but what controls or limits the DNA replic

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15 June

New publication in Molecular Biology of the Cell for Pichaud Lab

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The shape of cells determines the shape and function of organs.  However, how cell shape is controlled is not well understood.

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05 June

New publication in Current Biology for Baum and Henriques labs

Why try to image live cell divisions in the hyperthermophile Sulfolobus at 75°C? There are several reasons for wanting to do so. First, many cell biological processes previously thought to be unique to eukaryotes are present in a simplified form in TACK archaea (which include the archaeon Sulfolobus) – making this an excellent system in which to study how they work. This includes ESCRT-III and

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05 June

Ready to open for UCL's return-to-work pilot

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