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All the latest news from the lab.

October 2025

Welcome to Michelle who is starting her PhD in the lab

September 2025

Welcome to Alice who is coming as a postdoc from Emmanuel Derivery's lab.

July 2025

Julie received a Leverhulme Research grant (2026-2029)!

June 2025

Jeraldine received the Best Talk Prize at the School of Biology Graduate School Symposium.

We welcome Alaric, undergraduate Biochemistry student and James Gillespie High School alumnus, to the lab over the summer.

May 2025

Welcome to Shivam who is coming as a postdoc from Mark Dodding's lab.

We received a Collaborative grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

April 2025

After 11 years, Agata is leaving our lab. We wish Agata well on her new job as Sustainability Officer for the College of Science and Engineering.

November 2023

Here is our work highlighted on the cover of EMBO journal, issue 2nd November 2023.

September 2022

We welcome Conor Treacy and Jeraldine Weber as postdoc and PhD student respectively.

August 2022

We welcome Huey Ying Kok in the lab, joining as a research assistant.

July 2022

Thomas's work on pathogenic prediction of tubulin isotypes, in collaboration with Joe Marsch available on Biorxiv.

May 2022

Well done Toni for the work on Kif18b-EB-MCAK, finally out in JCS.

March 2022

Ben's paper on CENPE motility is out in Open Biology. Congratulations Ben!

September 2021

Julie with a quote on winning her medal, detailed in text below — Julie receives the Patrick Neill Royal Society of Edinburgh Medal.

I am thankful for this prestigious award, having had to juggle three young children at home and work in extraordinary circumstances during the Covid-19 pandemic. I would also like to highlight all the wonderful people I have so far worked with in the Welcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh and beyond.

July 2020

Our paper on how CENP-E gets to kinetochores through BUBR1 is out in JCS!

April 2020

Our review on CENP-E in mitosis is out.

January 2020

PhD alumni Jovana Deretic gets a Marie curie Fellowship to study in Elif Firat lab.

October 2019

New PhD student Leo joins the lab.

August 2019

Thibault presents our structural work on CENP-E at kinetochores at the Dynamic Kinetochore Workshop in Paris.

June 2019

Ben won the best poster prize for the Institute of Cell Biology at the Grad School poster day.

March 2019

Thibault presents our structural work on CENP-E at kinetochores at the Spindle meeting in Croatia.

February 2019

Toni presents our work on Kif18b at the Annual Biophysical meeting in Baltimore.

January 2019

We welcome Gaetan Dias-Mirandela in the lab

January 2019

Our paper on MCAK regulation by Aurora B kinase is out in JCS!

December 2018

Julie presents our work at the ASCB and chairs the minisymposium "Motors in transport and cytoskeleton remodelling".

November 2018

November is a busy month for us. Our paper describing a method to identify Aurora kinase substrates is online. SPICE1 is one of them.

A rapid computational approach identifies SPICE1 as an Aurora kinase substrate

November 2018

Read our latest review of Kinesin-13 mechanism.

Parts list for a microtubule depolymerising kinesin

November 2018

Photo of young EMBO investigators 2018 — Julie is one of 26 international young scientists to receive the EMBO Young Investigator award!

News article on Julie's award

September 2018

We say goodbye to Jovana and welcome to our new Precision Medicine PhD student Thomas Attard, jointly supervised with Jo Marsh, IGMM. Welcome also to our Chemistry final year student Emma Andrews who comes to the lab for her Honours project.

August 2018

Members of the lab sit round a restaurant table — Julie's SRF starts. With her first SRF salary, Julie takes the lab out to the Grainstore restaurant!

July 2018

Our paper on the regulation of spindle positioning and microtubule length is out at JCB and is open access!

Microtubule end tethering of a processive kinesin-8 motor Kif18b is required for spindle positioning

March 2018

Four members of the lab pose for a photo outside the Dynamic Cell conference — The Welburn Lab attended the Dynamic Cell conference in Manchester. It was a great meeting and Agata won a prize for her poster on Kif18b and spindle positioning!

January 2018

Members of the welburn and Okhura lab pose for a photo in a sports hall — Lab retreat 2018 with Okhura lab. We discussed creativity in the context of science and outside the lab. This was followed by a competitive game of netball.

1st November 2017

Jovana defends her thesis.

Well done Dr Deretic!

October 2017

Welcome to Ben Craske Eastbio BBSRC student and Giovanna de la Hoz Banos Erasmus+ student to the lab!

August 2017

Julie receives a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship (2018-2023).

Great science ahead for the Welburn lab!

May 2017

Second summer vacation studentship success for undergraduate Derrick Tang who received one from Wellcome!

May 2017

Yann Frey joins the lab for 4 months from Paris. Additionally, Yann gets a BSCB summer studentship and thanks to BSCB!

Jovana poses in the lab with an open book and a card with photos of the lab group members on it — Dr Jovana Deretic

April 2017

Getting ready for the 3rd British Microtubule meeting, Toni is giving a talk!

March 2017

Read our JCB Spotlight on Dynein at kinetochores!

Dynein at kinetochores: Making the connection

March 2017

Our paper on MCAK in human cells and C. elegans in collaboration with Julien Dumont is out at Development.

Inhibition of ectopic microtubule assembly by the kinesin-13 KLP-7 prevents chromosome segregation and cytokinesis defects in oocytes

September 2016

Julie has received a Research grant from the Royal Society!

May 2016

Welcome Innes and welcome back Jonida. Innes recceived a Carnegie Vacation summer studentship and Jonida is in the lab for a few more weeks before she starts her PhD at the MRC-LMB.

April 2016

Welcome to Heather in the lab! Heather joins us from the Chemistry department in Edinburgh and brings a new string of skills to our lab.

February 2016

Our paper on the Dam1 complex is accepted and coming out soon!

January 2016

Agata is leaving us to do another full-time job, maternity leave. Agata will be back in the Fall we hope.

January 2016

Thibault gets a Staff PhD Scholarship award. Congratulations Thibault!

January 2016

Paper with Iva Tolic is out at nature Communications!

Happy 2016!

December 2015

Julie is interviewed by JCS in Cell Scientists to Watch.

November 2015

Welcome to Toni starting as postdoc in our lab.

A date for your diaries

25th April 2016 for an awesome British Microtubule meeting in Edinburgh again!

This article was published on 2024-06-17