Merry Christmas from the Mackinder Lab
We celebrated the Christmas season with a festive Italian meal, drinks at Brew York, Secret Santa and brilliantly illustrated Christmas Cards from our PhD student Christine. Thank you SO much everyone for your wonderful efforts, it was a lovely evening.
Another year over and lots of exciting work has been done in and outside the lab. We have had many highlights! These include Luke winning the SEB President’s Medal for Cell Biology and presenting a Medalist talk at their annual meeting. We also welcomed a number of new staff and student members to the team. Our lab members have been very active in attending conferences, including the SEB Annual Meeting in Florence where Luke hosted a session on algal CCMs with Dr Alistair McCormick (University of Edinburgh), Plastid Preview in Lancaster where Charlotte won best poster prize, CyanoNET in Glasgow and ePS in Uppsala. Finally, the extra icing on the cake: we have cloned many many genes, particularly by Gary, Guoyan and Tom; hosted GCSE work experience students; and are the proud owners of a new shaker in the growth room! Good work team.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May 2019 be filled with publications, great meetings, new collaborations and lots of exciting data!