December 2023
As an early Christmas present: JP’s MET in renal organoids paper is accepted in Developmental Cell, yeah!
Jesse’s paper is accepted in Development and we have the cover- again!
4 July 2023- Katja is elected as an EMBO Member!
News article on the LMB website
https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/katja-roper-elected-to-embo-membership/
March 2023- Dina’s paper is out in Development and on the cover!
Autumn 2021– Yara’s paper is out in eLife!
Summer 2021– Ghislain’s paper is out in Nature Comms!
January 2020 – Clara’s paper is out online in Dev Cell!
December 2019 – Merry Christmas 2019!!
August 2019 – Yara and Anton visit
May 2019 – One of our pics from #LMB365 in the Cambridge Independent!
8-12 October 2018 – LMB Lab Talks week with fantastic science, and at the end:
The winner of the LMB Image Competition is:
Katja Röper ;-))
and here is the winning image (non-scientific, though…)
16 July 2018 – Yara’s paper is finally accepted in eLife!
2 July 2018 – Annabel starts as a new student in the lab!
23 February 2018 – Farewell for Clara
7 December 2017 – Cell Biology Christmas lunch! HoHoHo…
17 June 2017 – LMB Open Science Day, a great success again!
May 2017 – Jesse starts in the lab
February 2017 – Ghislain starts in the lab
7 October 2016 – Farewell dinner for Gemma
October 2016 – ‘Home in the life of science’ performances at LMB
October 2016 – JCB People & Ideas featuring Katja is published
Dina helps the LMB to win the Cycle Challenge!
September 2016 – The print copy of the Springer book containing Clara’s review finally arrived in the lab!
July 2016 – We show our flags! #scienceisglobal
July 2016 – Joint lab BBQ, it’s summer!
June/July 2016 – Two new lab additions:
- Farhaan is a Summer Student from 13 June until and of August
- and Dina starts her PhD early also as a Summer Student in the lab, welcome both!
June 2016 – 23rd June will be an exciting day: not only the EU referendum, but also the lab’s first Webinar, to be given by Yara!
11 April 2016 – Yara talks about her project at the BSDB-BSCB 2016 Spring Meeting in Warwick!
November 2015 – Gemma’s paper is accepted, AND: we have the cover picture of the January 2016 issue 
March 2015 – My review is out:
Röper, K. (2015), Integration of cell-cell adhesion and contractile actomyosin activity during morphogenesis. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 112:103-27
January 2015 – Gemma is back in the lab
9 June 2014 – Alex’ paper is out:
Booth, A.J.R., Blanchard, G.B., Adams, R.J. and Röper, K. (2014), A dynamic microtubule cytoskeleton directs medial actomyosin function during tube formation. Dev. Cell, , 29(5), 562–576. doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2014.03.023
23-25 May 2014 – UK Fly PIs in Cell and Developmental Biology:
2nd Meeting at ‘The Burn’
19-21 May 2014 – ‘Pint of Science’ in Cambridge:
Clara is organising and Katja is presenting!
19 April 2014 – new lab member (by extension):
Harriet Emma Bishop, born at 12:53pm, 3.09kg, congratulations Gemma and Tom!
1 April 2014 – Yara starts in the lab to take on Gemma’s project whilst she is on leave
29 March 2014 – Gemma’s review on tubulogenesis is online;
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1084952114000561
27 March 2014 – Alex’ paper on microtubules and medial actomyosin is accepted by Developmental Cell!
10 March 2014 – Silvia is back in the lab
7 August 2013 – Clara’s article ‘Shaping up: what fruit flies can tell us about how our body is built’ has been shortlisted for this year’s Max Perutz Science Writing Award! With Ceremony and announcement of winners on 25th September in the Science Museum in London. Congratulations!
June 2013 – The Queen opens our new LMB buidling and Gemma has a chat with her.
See photos at:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Live-coverage-Queen-and-Duke-of-Edinburgh-visit-Cambridge-20130523110000.htm
Our work is featured for the opening lunch in the atrium:
23 April 2013 – Our review on Crumbs and its new functions in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is published:
http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v14/n5/full/nrm3568.html
March 2013 – Alex has secured a Postdoc position in Dundee!!
18 February 2013 – Clara starts in the lab.
4-5 February 2013 – We are among the first labs to move into the new LMB building, very exciting! Beautiful building.