We're Hiring!
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.
Stephen has a 3D printer and uses it to make things for the lab. Below are links to prints we've found useful - some are Stephen's design (original or remixes of existing designs) and some are from other people. We've printed all of these using a Prusa MK3S+ but they should all print well on pretty much any fused deposition modeling (FDM) printer.
Useful lab things
Millennium Falcon Tube Holder |
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The classic Millennium Falcon rack for 50 mL conical tubes. Remix of the design that clicks together and has minimal supports. An elegant tube rack for a more civilised age... | Print file and more photos |
AKTA Start Tube Adaptor |
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Adaptor so you can used 5 mL or 1.5 mL fraction tubes in the place of 15 mL Falcon tubes. Allows you to collect 60 fractions on an AKTA Start Frac30 without unloading/reloading the carousel. | Print file and more photos |
JA-25.50 Tube Holder |
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Holder for single Beckman Coulter JA-25.50 centrifuge tube, useful when balancing tubes before a run... | Print file and more photos |
50 mL Falcon Tube Holder |
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Holder for single 50 mL conical (Falcon) tube. It's orange. It holds one tube. What more could you want? | Print file and more photos |
15 mL Falcon Tube Holder |
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Just like the holder for single 50 mL conical (Falcon) tubes, but it's smaller. And fits 15 mL Falcon tubes. But it's still orange. Unless you print it in a different colour. | Print file and more photos |
Imperial Star Destroyer Falcon Tube Holder |
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No need to apologise, Captain Needa, you won't be losing anything with this stylish 50 mL conical tube holder. Click together design. | Print file and more photos |
Midiprep Rack 15 mL Adaptor |
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Adaptor for the Invitrogen PureLink Nucleic Acid Purification Rack so that you can use 15 mL Falcon tubes when eluting your DNA from midiprep or maxiprep columns. | Print file and more photos |
Tape Roll Adaptor |
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Adaptor to accommodate large tape rolls (77 mm inner dimension) on laboratory tape dispensers. Perfect for when someone orders the wrong tape roll by accident... | Print file and more photos |
50 mL Falcon Tube Cover |
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Cover for 50 mL Falcon tubes to protect contents from light. Less fiddly than foil... | Print file and more photos |
Self-assembling virus |
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Self-assembling (magnetic) dodecahedron with 5-fold symmetry markings. Useful for teaching symmetry and capsid self-assembly. And fun to play with when you should be grant writing. | Print file and more photos |
Microcentrifige tube ThermoShaker lid |
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Lid for Grant PHMT microcentrifuge tube thermo-shakers to keep your tubes warm at higher temperatures and reduce environmental contamination if working with open tubes. | Print file and more photos |
Non-printed lab things
6-Well Plate Inserts |
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White acrylic inserts for 6-well plates to enhance contrast of virus plaques when imaging/scanning. Very useful when using peroxidase secondaries and developing with DAB
or (our favourite) TrueBlue.
Download the SGV template file, check that the insert sizes are correct using an SVG viewer like Inkscape and then send for laser cutting (along the red lines). We used LaserLab and had ours cut on a 150x150 mm sheet of 5 mm thick white acrylic. Simples. |