I am very pleased to say that Richard Henshaw (Maths & Phys, U. Warwick) will join our group in October for his PhD. Richard has already been working with us for his final year project, looking at movement of Micromonas pusilla an important picoeukaryote. Looking forward to working with him again for his PhD !!

Matteo has been accepted to the  IFF Spring School 2015 to take place in Julich in late February. This is a well established spring school, which has been running for over 40 years. This year it will focus on Materials, Soft Matter and Biophysics.

Well done Matteo!

Our paper on flagellar coordination is one of four (!) new studies (i.e. published within the last year) that the academic editors of eLife have selected “[…] to represent the breadth, quality, and importance of papers invited by the journal[…]”.
To know more see here.

There is a new opening for a Ph.D. student in the group, to work on movement of microorganisms in response to light. The plan is for this project to kickstart a collaboration with the group of Giovanni Finazzi, at CEA Grenoble (Fr.). More informations can be found here. If you’re interested or know outstanding students that might be interested, do not hesitate to contact Marco! Funding is for UK students or outstanding EU (continental) students only.

On a light note, today Raphael and Matteo took possession of their new office, which is now groundfloor in the Physics main building. As you can see, the whiteboard in the office was the vehicle of choice to express the excitement of finally running their own kingdom! 😉

We’re all very excited that Raphäel Jeanneret decided to join the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. He will arrive in September from Denis Bartolo‘s lab at ENS Lyon (actually they just moved from ESPCI….).
Looking forward to working together Raphäel!