{"id":24,"date":"2020-01-15T10:36:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/nguyen\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-07-25T23:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:48:22","slug":"lab-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/nguyen\/lab-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We welcome Karen Chau to our lab as a research associate.<\/a><\/h3>
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Kelly was honored with the 2026 Blavatnik Award Life Science Laureate for the work on telomerase.<\/a><\/h3>
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We welcome Arjun Bhatta to our lab as a postdoctoral fellow.<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations Seb on successfully defending his PhD thesis.<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations Seb on his paper on the telomerase catalytic cycle in Nature Communications. Joint celebration with Helen and Nirupa’s birthdays.<\/a><\/h3>
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We welcome Tae-kyeong Jeong to our lab as a postdoctoral fellow.<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to Simonas on being awarded a Boehringer Ingelheim Fellowship!<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to Seb, Zala and Elsa on their Science paper on human telomerase dimer. Check it out here for full details:<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to Martin on being awarded both the EMBO and SNF Fellowships!<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to George on his latest paper in Science on LINE-1 TPRT. Check this out here.<\/a><\/h3>
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Kelly was featured in the “Cell Scientist to watch” series by the Journal of Cell Science.<\/a><\/h3>
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We said farewell to Patryk, who is off to the Pellegrini lab. All the best of luck!<\/a><\/h3>
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We said farewell to George, who is off to Princeton to start his own lab. Congratulations and all the best of luck!<\/a><\/h3>
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We welcome Simonas Melaika to our lab (early) as a new PhD student.<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to Inga for being awarded an EMBO Fellowship. Very well-deserved!<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to Zala for successfully defending her PhD (with no corrections). First PhDone from our lab. All the best wishes with your next step!<\/a><\/h3>
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Prof. Doug Black joined us from UCLA for a sabbatical.<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to George and Zala on their latest paper in Nature Comms on the 2.7 \u00c5 structure of telomerase H\/ACA RNP. Read more about the paper here: https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38272871\/<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to Hongmiao, Marike and George on their paper in Science Advances on TRF1-telomeric nucleosome complex. Read more about the paper here: https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37624885\/<\/a><\/h3>
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Four year lab anniversary and first lab retreat!<\/a><\/h3>
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May birthday girls and boys!<\/a><\/h3>
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Farewell party to Marike! We are very thankful for having you with us the past 3.5 years and all the best with the new adventure!<\/a><\/h3>
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Lab formal at St John’s College as a belated welcome Don and Siggi to our group<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations to George on being awarded the Joan A. Steitz Postdoc Prize at the 2022 LMB Lab Symposium!<\/a><\/h3>
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Lab celebration of 2022 Eppendorf Award.<\/a><\/h3>
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We welcome Paulina Engel as our 2022 summer student.<\/a><\/h3>
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We welcome Hongmiao Hu as a new postdoc.<\/a><\/h3>
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Congratulations Zala and George on their work on telomerase recruitment. The paper is out in Science. Read more about it here: https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abn6840<\/a><\/h3>
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We welcome Sebastian Balch as a PhD student.<\/a><\/h3>
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Welcome Helen Yan, our very first summer student! So glad you are here, after such a long Covid delay.<\/a><\/h3>
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Goodbye Peichun! Good luck with the next journey!<\/a><\/h3>
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Happy birthday Zala<\/a><\/h3>
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Lab post lockdown picnic<\/a><\/h3>
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Double celebration for George. Happy birthday and congratulations on being awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship!<\/a><\/h3>
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Our first lab paper on the high-resolution structure of human telomerase is out in Nature. Read more about this work here: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03415-4<\/a><\/h3>
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Brightening the 2020 Christmas mood with cookies by Zala and Kelly<\/a><\/h3>
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Social-distancing welcome to Zala and Adam’s birthday. George demonstrated his amazing cocktail making skills.<\/a><\/h3>
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Zala Sekne started as a PhD student in the lab.<\/a><\/h3>
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Kelly is honored with the Suffrage Science Award<\/a><\/h3>
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Happy birthday Marike! (cake with an illustration of preferred orientation)<\/a><\/h3>
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Lab meeting post-lockdown time<\/a><\/h3>
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Pre-lockdown Lab Bowling with the Passmore and Russo labs<\/a><\/h3>
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George Ghanim joins the lab as an MRC-Career Development Fellow<\/a><\/h3>
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Lab secret Santa and Christmas dinner with the Nagai and da Fonseca labs<\/a><\/h3>
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Marike van Roon joins our lab as a lab manager<\/a><\/h3>
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The Lab is open for business<\/a><\/h3>