PhD program in quantitative biology Université de Lausanne ! Positions open in many labs, including Jan-Willem Veening, Sara Mitri and mine DMF UNIL. Our lab has is recruiting a PhD student interested in quantitative imaging. Deadline Oct 16th. Please RT.

As of yesterday, I took over as head of DMF UNIL. It is a privilege to be surrounded by great science from the labs of @Gruber_Lausanne, Jan-Willem Veening, Sara Mitri, Philipp Engel, Yolanda Schaerli, Justine Collier, Resch, Pelet, Keel, and van der Meer. Université de Lausanne #microbiology

New opening in my lab for a post-doc bioinformatician to carry out exciting research on human and ape brain organoids, and to support other bioinformatics related projects. Work with us to find out what makes us human! Please RT. nature.com/naturecareers/…

Great to see the structure of human thyroglobulin highlighted by Diamond Light Source! Many thanks @MRC_LMB and many people collaborating and helping on this project Rappsilber laboratory Radu Aricescu Sjors Scheres #thyroid, nature.com/articles/s4158…

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I am very proud of this work with Lawrence Welch @CellBiol_MRCLMB @Gui_Pap. We investigate how the Spike protein highjacks the host cell membrane trafficking machinery. "Sequences in the cytoplasmic tail of SARS-CoV-2 spike facilitate syncytia formation" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy to share our new paper on SARS-CoV-2 infection of the choroid plexus leading to barrier damage. Thank you @AnnaAlbecka, `⎚⩊⎚´ and all our fantastic collaborators!

Next target: membrane proteins at atomic resolution 😀 Oh, and maybe going sub-1Å for #CAFR, hopefully no need for "several billion" particles 😉

#SARSCoV2 does not significantly infect #neurons but productively infects the #brain choroid plexus in human brain #organoids, finds a team of @MRC_LMB researchers. Read more from the study in Cell Stem Cell hubs.ly/H0y8Gk80

Apoptotic stress induces Bax-dependent, caspase-independent redistribution of LINC complex nesprins | Cell Death Discovery nature.com/articles/s4142…

Check out our new review on membrane pores in cell death 💀dx.doi.org/10.15252/embj.…

I will be presenting the work SARS-CoV-2 Spike trafficking with Lawrence Welch @CellBiol_MRCLMB at the Membrane trafficking series on Jan7th 2020.

Apaf1 is full of surprise!

On this #WomensDay I have the most wonderful news to share. Today it was decided that I will be promoted to tenured group leader at the LMB! I am so very honoured to be able to continue to work with my amazing colleagues here. And I want to especially thank my wonderful lab!

Dr. Madeline Lancaster (Madeline Lancaster) & @MRC_LMB scientists use cerebral #organoids 🧠 derived from human, gorilla, and chimpanzee cells to study developmental mechanisms driving evolutionary brain expansion. Cell: bit.ly/3lUwkEe 📰 bit.ly/31fVweI

Very delighted and honoured to receive this award. Proud to make a contribution to our SARS-CoV-2 research and joined the global fight against COVID19. It was really collaborative work by many amazing colleagues!

🔗 Sign up now for free!! It’s going to be awesome 🤩 eventbrite.co.uk/e/lmb-ibmb-gra…

4) hire, trained someone to finish revisions: a great lab member who pulled it off. But personal lives take precedent over scicence (and they should) - parental leave puts this on hold. Now end of 2019. 5) the pandemic - lab closed/partially opened for 1 year.

PS: and this was done with the help of the fantastic @TuncayBaubec

Excited to share our new preprint! Alicia Borgeaud discovered that the cell death-promoting apoptosome has an unexpected appearance and behaviour in apoptotic cells. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…