scholarly journals Cell scientist to watch – Anthony Roberts

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. jcs256172
Keyword(s):  
Cytoplasmic Dynein ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Research Award ◽  
Dynein Motor ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
University College London ◽  
Cilia And Flagella ◽  
Career Research ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTAnthony Roberts studied biochemistry at Imperial College London, UK. He then pursued a PhD in molecular and cellular biology with Peter Knight and Stan Burgess at the University of Leeds, UK, where he studied the mechanism of the dynein motor protein. After this, Anthony moved to Boston, USA, for his postdoctoral work with Samara Reck-Peterson, at the Harvard Medical School, focussing on cytoplasmic dynein regulation. In late 2014, he returned to London, UK to start his own lab at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at Birkbeck, University of London, and University College London (UCL), where he is now a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Proleptic Senior Lecturer. Anthony received the Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award in 2016, a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council New Investigator Award in 2017, and was elected to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme in 2018. His lab is focussing on the mechanisms of microtubule-based transport within cilia and flagella.

scholarly journals Peter Brian Medawar, 28 February 1915 - 2 October 1987

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 281-301 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
Immunological Tolerance ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Senior Research Fellow ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
University College London ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

Peter Brian Medawar was born in 1915 in Rio de Janeiro. His father, Nicholas Agnatius, was a Brazilian businessman of Lebanese extraction, and his mother Edith Muriel Dowling, British. He was educated at Marlborough College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a first-class degree in zoology in 1936 and D.Sc. in 1947. At Oxford he was successively a Christopher Welch Scholar and senior-demi of Magdalen, a senior research fellow of St John’s, and a fellow by special election of Magdalen. From 1947 to 1951 he was Mason Professor of Zoology in the University of Birmingham, from 1951 to 1962 Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in University College London, and from 1962 to 1971 Director of the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill. From 1971 to 1986 he worked in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Research Centre, Harrow. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1949; he was awarded a C.B.E. in 1958, a knighthood in 1965, a C.H. in 1972, and an O.M. in 1981, as well as honorary degrees too numerous to mention. In 1960, jointly with MacFarlane Burnet, he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine, for the discovery of immunological tolerance. Medawar enjoyed great fame as a popularizer and philosopher of science, through his books, numerous articles (cited here only as the collected volumes which contain a selection) and broadcasts. He had a powerfully dramatic presence, much wit, and deep insight into the hopes of his audience.

scholarly journals The principles of tomorrow's university

F1000Research ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Katz ◽  
Gabrielle Allen ◽  
Lorena A. Barba ◽  
Devin R. Berg ◽  
Holly Bik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Recent Theoretical Work ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
University Leaders ◽  
Career Research ◽  
The University

In the 21st Century, research is increasingly data- and computation-driven. Researchers, funders, and the larger community today emphasize the traits of openness and reproducibility. In March 2017, 13 mostly early-career research leaders who are building their careers around these traits came together with ten university leaders (presidents, vice presidents, and vice provosts), representatives from four funding agencies, and eleven organizers and other stakeholders in an NIH- and NSF-funded one-day, invitation-only workshop titled "Imagining Tomorrow's University." Workshop attendees were charged with launching a new dialog around open research – the current status, opportunities for advancement, and challenges that limit sharing. The workshop examined how the internet-enabled research world has changed, and how universities need to change to adapt commensurately, aiming to understand how universities can and should make themselves competitive and attract the best students, staff, and faculty in this new world. During the workshop, the participants re-imagined scholarship, education, and institutions for an open, networked era, to uncover new opportunities for universities to create value and serve society. They expressed the results of these deliberations as a set of 22 principles of tomorrow's university across six areas: credit and attribution, communities, outreach and engagement, education, preservation and reproducibility, and technologies. Activities that follow on from workshop results take one of three forms. First, since the workshop, a number of workshop authors have further developed and published their white papers to make their reflections and recommendations more concrete. These authors are also conducting efforts to implement these ideas, and to make changes in the university system.  Second, we plan to organise a follow-up workshop that focuses on how these principles could be implemented. Third, we believe that the outcomes of this workshop support and are connected with recent theoretical work on the position and future of open knowledge institutions.

scholarly journals Cell scientist to watch – Yanlan Mao

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (17) ◽  
pp. jcs252569
Keyword(s):  
Cell Biology ◽  
Shape Control ◽  
Cell Signalling ◽  
Tissue Mechanics ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
British Society ◽  
University College London ◽  
Cell Shape Control ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTYanlan Mao graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK, followed by a PhD in developmental biology and genetics at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), Cambridge, UK. During this time, she studied cell signalling and epithelial patterning in Drosophila, under the supervision of Matthew Freeman. For her postdoctoral research, Yanlan moved to the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (now part of the Francis Crick Institute), to study the role of mechanical forces in the orientation of cell division and cell shape control in Nic Tapon's laboratory. She established her own research group in 2014 at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (MRC-LMCB), University College London, where she addresses the importance of tissue mechanics during development, homeostasis and repair. She was awarded a L'Oreal UNESCO Women in Science Fellowship and the Lister Institute Research Prize in 2018. In 2019, she was awarded the Biophysical Society Early Career Award in Mechanobiology and also became part of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. Yanlan is the recipient of the 2020 Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal from the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB).

scholarly journals First person – Rebecca San Gil

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (15) ◽  
pp. jcs251918
Keyword(s):  
Heat Shock ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Molecular Processes ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Shock Response ◽  
Regulate Protein ◽  
Career Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Rebecca San Gil is first author on ‘Neurodegenerative disease-associated protein aggregates are poor inducers of the heat shock response in neuronal cells’, published in JCS. Rebecca conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Heath Ecroyd's lab at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Australia. She is now a Fight MND Early Career Research Fellow in the lab of Adam K. Walker at the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, investigating the cell and molecular processes that regulate protein aggregation and enhance neuronal survival in neurodegenerative diseases.

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