2026

  • NanoInsights Multimodal SIM Microscope: A huge thank you to Professor Dong Li and team for kindly bringing their super-resolution SIM microscope to Cambridge for us to use over the past month. A special thank you to Jieyi Yuan (Kitt) for all her brilliant help with operating the microscope and helping us to capture so many beautiful and exciting images.

Aug 2026

  • Tsinghua-Cambridge-UCL Summer School – ‘Paradigm Shift in Biomedical Research’: A warm welcome to our visiting students from Tsinghua University, who have joined us for two weeks of exciting talks organised by our very own Laura Machesky, Guangshuo Ou (Tsinghua), and Yanlan Mao (UCL).  Many thanks to all speakers for sharing their inspiring insights, innovative research, and pioneering work in advancing biomedical science.

Jun-July 2026

  • MCR/SCR Research Day: Well done to Dr. Sayantika Ghosh for presenting her talk, ‘Feeling the forces: How Cancer Cells Sense the Substrate’, at this interdisciplinary event by Robinson College.

May 2026

Apr 2026

Apr 2026

  • 2026 BSCB Dynamic Cell VI Conference: Wonderful set of talks at this event co-organised by Prof. Laura Machesky. Congratulations to PhD student Li Ma on her poster!

Apr 2026

  • American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting: Well done to former Part II student Adi Raja (supervised by Dr. Sayantika Ghosh) for presenting his first poster!

Apr 2026

  • Prof. Laura Machesky and Prof. Robert Insall’s trip to China: Warm welcome as speakers for the 100th Anniversary Tsinghua University Life Sciences Symposium on Cellular Construction and Function, ‘Architecting Life’, and lead panellists in Peking University’s interactive session ‘Academia & Beyond‘ in the school of Medicine. 

Apr 2026

  • CRUK Cambridge Festival 2026: Many thanks to Prof. Laura Machesky and lab members Dr. Roberta Palmulli, Li Ma, Wei Du, Dr. Sayantika Ghosh and Aven Spencer for volunteering at the open day, engaging with kids and the public on what it’s like to work in cancer research.

March 2026

  • New PhD Studentship: Congratulations to our visiting master’s student Virgile Gobry on securing the highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship to complete a PhD in the Machesky Lab – we look forward to welcoming him back in October after his graduation this summer!

March 2026

  • CRUK Fundamental Biology of Cancer Annual Symposium: ‘Cancer Metabolism and the Tumour Microenvironment’. Fantastic contributions from our PhD students Osian Jones and Wei Du for their short talks and posters, and Dr. Lisa Dobson for her talk on patient outreach and panel discussion with the Public and Patient Involvement Network on bridging the gap between patients and researchers.

Feb 2026

  • ‘Cambridge Biochemistry Global Women’s Breakfast 2026’: Thank you to Prof. Laura Machesky for her inspiring careers talk as part of this worldwide initiative to celebrate International Day of Girls and Women in Science.

Feb 2026

  • New Video for World Cancer Day: ‘Explaining the Biology of Metastasis’, released by the CRUK Cambridge Centre Fundamental Biology of Cancer (FBC) Programme to mark World Cancer Day (4th February 2026) – narrated by our very own Dr. Lisa Dobson!

Feb 2026

  • Departmental Away Days: Well done to PhD students Li Ma, Wei Du and Osian Jones for their great flash talks and posters at the annual Biochemistry Away Days held at St John’s College, with special mention to Osian Jones for winning second prize for his flash talk!

Jan 2026

  • Successful PhD application! Congratulations to Machesky Lab MRes student Yixian Huang on securing a PhD position in the department. We are delighted that you will be staying on as a permanent member of the lab!

Jan 2026

  • Department of Biochemistry’s Independent Research Fellowship Symposium: Well done to Dr. Roberta Palmulli for her excellent presentation on her research journey so far and plans going forward.

Jan 2026