Graduation week for Dr Dashwood, Dr Gentry and Dr Ali!

Huge congratulations to Dr Amy Dashwood, Dr Ntombizodwa Gentry and Dr Magda Ali! All three graduating this week with their PhDs from University of Cambridge! Our first Cambridge PhD students, who I find out from reading the acknowledgements were known as "Adrian's Angels" or "The Three Musketeers". Fantastic scientists all, I'm really proud to have been part of their career journey. I look forward to following their successes into the future, already started with a postdoc at the University of Manchester, a postdoc at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), and a commercialisation position at Cambridge Enterprise. Well done!

International women in STEM day

Congratulations Dr Magda Ali!

Congratulations Dr Magda Ali! Our latest successful PhD viva was from the amazing Magda, finishing off a great PhD.

Well done Magda!

Moments before thesis submission...

Congratulations Dr Ntombizodwa Makuyana!

Congratulations Dr Ntombizodwa Makuyana! Our 24th PhD completion from the lab, and our 1st Cambridge PhD defence! Way to go Tombi! 

Congratulations Stevi Piliou!

Congratulations to Stevi for winning the Lucy Cavendish College student writing prize for her research essay "Autoimmunity and neurological diseases – Creating a hope for the future"!

International Day of Women in Science

Congratulations Dr Julika Neumann!

Congratulations to the amazing Dr Julika Neumann, who just graduated from the lab, as our final Belgian PhD!

Julika secretly did two PhDs rather than one, with an outstanding clinical immunology PhD where she discovered a new immunodeficiency (and won the Golden Pipette!) and another systems immunology project on SARS-CoV2, with the first paper published and several systems vaccinology papers coming out soon!

Julika was a talented immunologist and bioinformatician, but above all an exceptional team-player and detail-orientated fixer. We all congratulate Julika on an exceptional PhD and her positive impact on all of those around her over the past four years. All the best Julika!

Golden Pipette awarded to Amy Dashwood

Congratulations go to Amy Dashwood, winner of the 2023 Golden Pipette! The Golden Pipette is handed down from winner to winner in recognition of elegant experiments and a positive contribution to lab culture. This year Amy has won the Golden Pipette for her elegant experiments creating a genetic chimera system to analyse microglia homeostasis, and for being an outstanding lab citizen and mentor to undergraduate students. Well done Amy!

Congratulations Amy Dashwood!

Best Student Talk at the Babraham Institute Lab Talks. Well deserved!

Stay tuned to find out her really cool work on microglia homeostasis!