The last couple of months have been a period of great collective achievement in the Grubb lab. Here’s the summer student roll-call: Saj and Abdul both successfully polished off their MSc projects, and both managed to get Merits overall, which we’re dead proud of. Sabrina sadly had to return to life in sunny Southern California, taking with her a new-found love for booze, British comedy and golf ball rolling (don’t ask), but leaving behind new ways for us to label cell types in our hippocampal cultures. Tom used his charity money very wisely, learning how to patch and getting some nice data on structural AIS plasticity. He’s now busy becoming a real doctor, but is still popping in now and again as part of his ‘Student Selected Component’.
As for the permanent team members, Mark finally persuaded enough people to read his PhD Upgrade report so that he can transfer to full doctorate pursuit status, Annisa presented her data at a one-day Imperial College symposium on ‘How to Succeed in Science’ (think we all should’ve gone, really), and Matt managed to submit an MRC Research Grant that’ll hopefully expand us in all the right ways next year. Fingers crossed!
