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We're looking for a structural enzymologist to help decipher how viruses evolve resistance to antiviral drugs. More details here and apply here.
Prospective students:
We are happy to accept students from the BBSRC DTP programme for PhD projects. We're also happy to hear from potential applicants for Gates Cambridge MPhil or PhD studentships, Cambridge Trust Studentships or Commonwealth Scholarships. You can find details on additional sources of studentship funding on the Department of Pathology prospective students page.
Prospective postdocs:
We are always interested to hear from motivated postdocs who want to apply for fellowships (e.g. from EMBO, HFSP, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 [Stephen had one of these!], the Royal Society or the Wellcome Trust) to join the lab.
Photos (2012-2014)
Go back to all photosCambridge Science Festival - March 2014
Again this year we joined forces with Janet Deane's lab from the CIMR to teach people how to grow their own lysozyme crystals at the 2014 Cambridge Science Festival. Over 100 people grew beautiful looking crystals of hen egg white lysozyme and the whole lab enjoyed getting the opportunity to discuss our research with members of the public.
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Setting up beforehand
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Soon after the doors open we'd alredy grown some great lysozyme crystals (take a look at the screen!)
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Children young and old were amazed to see the crystals grow right in front of their eyes
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Edward, Agnete, Chris and Danielle taking a short break from teaching people the how to use pipettes
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The intrepid "Grow your own crystals" team enjoying some well-deserved refreshments at the end of a long, successful day
Christmas Cheer - December 2013
Cold weather and short days mean it's almost Christmas time. The lab celebrated in style, first with a lab Christmas lunch (together with our friends from Janet Deane's lab in the CIMR) and then with the Division of Virology Christmas lunch the very next day.
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Christmas lunch at the Alexandra Arms
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Danielle scored some rather fetching glasses in the secret Santa gift-giving
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Janet was amused (bemused) by her secret Santa present
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Edward (and Danielle in the sheep jumper) at the Virology Christmas lunch
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Julia with Myra (from Ian Goodfellow's lab)
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Edward working on the traditional virology Christmas Quiz
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Stephen got co-opted into a photo shoot with these stylish glasses on later in the evening
Scary Agar Plates - Halloween 2013
Halloween isn't usually a time for cleaning, but seeing how nasty some of the yeast plates had gotten a thorough clean-out of the cold room was definitely overdue...
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Peaches and Cream?
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The Yeti
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Black Mamba
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The Thing
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Ectoplasm in action
Cambridge Science Festival - March 2013
Together with Janet Deane's lab from the CIMR we set up a "Grow your own crystal" stand at the 2013 Science Festival where we were crystallising lysozyme from chicken egg white. It was a roaring success: over 150 crystallisation experiments were set up by people ages 3 to 63 and (almost) everyone got crystals!
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Chris showing off density for a drug bound to the active site of his enzyme
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Janet explaining the crystallisation experiment to a dad
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Stephen helping with some pipetting...
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...and some microscopy
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Everyone loved seeing the crystals that they had grown
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Janet explaining how to use a pipette to some young lads
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Sarah helping out at the microscope
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Edward and Sarah showing kids the finer points of pipetting and microscopy
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Chris explaining electron density, the final result of our experiments, and how we use it to build atomic-resolution structures
Trip to Diamond - February 2013
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Arriving at Diamond in the morning
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Looking out over the experimental hall (the ring had dumped so we had time to wander around and explore)
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Stephen pointing out one of the 'straight sections'
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And Janet explaining how the X-rays are generated
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Standing on top of the ring!
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The experimental hall from the outside
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The control cabin
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Stephen collecting diffraction data (or pondering what to do next?)
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The goniometer (looking back to the storage ring from where the crystals are mounted)
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Yahui feeding the sample robot with crystals