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BSCB Magazine 2021 2021 BSCB Magazine BRITISH SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY BSCB Magazine 2021 News 2 Features 6 Book and game reviews 26 Meeting Reports 27 Summer Students 32 Society Business 39 Editorial Welcome to the 2021 edition of the BSCB magazine. and autophagy. Please see page xx for more infor- Front cover: Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) It’s been an incredibly eventful year, full of challenges mation. Meanwhile in the BSCB we have continued image of a HeLa cell expressing both personal and professional for all of our working, albeit on zoom, and are delighted to launch mScarlet localised to the members. For the BSCB in particular it has been our two new medals and announce the winners of mitochondrial matrix (red). a major time of change. The first lockdown was these. We discuss how the medals were designed Mitochondrial membranes are announced so close to our Spring meeting in 2020 on page 4. As ever we also feature interviews with shown in green (MitoTracker Green), cell nuclei are labelled we ended up deferring it to 2021. Our Dynamic Cell our Hooke and WICB winners on pages 6 and 9 with DAPI (blue), and tubulin meeting was jointly organised with the Biochemical and send both Ian Chamber and Yanlan Mao well is shown in cyan. The image Society and ran from 14–19th March 2021. As deserved congratulations. We welcome new PhD and was taken using a DeltaVision always, the remit of the meeting was broad, with Postdoc reps to our committee, see page 5, as well OMX v4 imaging system (GE Healthcare). a focus on cellular dynamics and stimulated novel as new committee members Dr Tom Nightingale, Dr collaborative approaches and the application of new Victoria Cowling and Professor Giampietro Schiavo. The image was taken by Hope technologies to established fields. The meeting was Sadly we also say goodbye to several of our time Needs, University of Bristol, well attended and we would like to thank everyone served committee members including Judith Sleeman and was the winner of hte who was able to make the meeting virtually. our web editor, Andrew Carter, our Membership BSCB Image Competition 2020. See page 14. Due to the ongoing pandemic, we have made Secretary, Julie Welburn who managed the Honor the decision to change our plans for the Cell la Vie! Fell awards for several years this year Anne Straube Above: Ian Chambers, Hooke Meeting with the French Society for Cell Biology will step down after excellent service as meetings award winner; BSCB medals; again. The meeting in September will now become secretary to be replaced by Susana Godhino. BSCB imaging competition winners; Cell la Vie meeting. a one-day online meeting on 23rd September, Last summer, our summer studentship coordinator, organised by ECR’s from both British and French Maria Balda, made a bold initiative of suggesting we Societies. Details are still being worked out and will continue to offer our summer studentships online. be communicated when finalised as well as updated This resulted in some excellent but quite different on the meeting website: https://www.atoutcom.com/ projects to read about what our students got up to cell-la-vie/. Please follow our the BSCB twitter feed please see page 32. We also have meeting reports @official_bscb for updates. from the last few in person meetings our members We have been really inspired by our members were able to attend and look forwards to hearing your response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Several of our response to our online meetings and members survey early career members have taken the opportunity to in 2021. move seminars online and form new initiatives for Enjoy reading this issue of our magazine and hope scientific dfiscussion. This has resulted in a democra- to see you virtually at Cell la Vie online. tisation of science and widened access for discussion in topics such as cilia, molecular motors, cell motility Ann Wheeler – Magazine editior Magazine Editor: Ann Wheeler Production: Giles Newton, Deadlift Media Printer: Hobbs BSCB website: www.bscb.org 1 NEWS Society News BSCB President’s Report 2020 I hope you enjoy this year’s Women in Cell Biology Early in visualising BSCB Magazine, which provides Career Medals to award and and studying cell insight into the many activities celebrate. The 2020 winners biological results that you can get involved in as were Ian Chambers (Hooke – see reports from a BSCB member. I want to take Medal, University of Edinburgh) these students on this opportunity to describe and Yanlan Mao (WICB page 32. some positive BSCB events Early Career Award Medal, in 2020 and look forward to Laboratory for Molecular Cell As a BSCB BSCB events in what will be Biology, UCL). Ian’s research member, your happening in 2021. focuses on the mechanisms registration fees for our meetings of stem cell pluripotency. this year are substantially We launched two new annual Yanlan investigates the discounted, so please do take prizes in 2020: The Raff Medal mechanics of tissue growth and advantage of this benefit by for PhD students and the regeneration, using an array of registering for Dynamic Cell BSCB Postdoctoral Researcher interdisciplinary approaches. IV (March 2021) and/or ‘Cell Medal. There was intense We had originally planned to la Vie’ (September 2021). If competition for the prizes, with present the 2020 winners you are a PhD student or many excellent candidates, with their medals at our 2020 postdoc, you can apply for an reflecting the high quality of annual meeting. Sadly, we Honor Fell travel award to help research carried out by BSCB had to make the decision to fund your registration costs PhD students and postdocs. I postpone this meeting for and travel for any conference, am delighted to announce that a year, which would have meeting, or workshop relevant the Raff Medal was awarded been our first in partnership to cell biology, including a to Flora Paldi (University of with a non-UK society, the BSCB meeting. Group leaders Edinburgh) and the Postdoctoral French Society for Cell Biology who do not currently have Researcher Medal to Agathe (SBCF). It is now scheduled for any conference funds in their Chaigne (Laboratory for September 2021 (see page 3 grants are eligible to apply for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL). for more information). Instead, Company of Biology Travel The medals will be awarded they will present their research Awards. We are also awarding at our virtual Dynamic Cell IV and receive the medals virtually these for registration for virtual meeting (14–19 March 2021), at our Dynamic Cell IV meeting. online scientific conferences/ accompanied by a short talk meetings. Please visit our by each of the medal winners. I am also delighted to announce website to find out more about These prizes were proposed the 2021 Medal winners: these awards, as well as other and championed by our BSCB Stephen Royle (Hooke Medal, ways you can get involved with committee PhD student rep University of Warwick) and the BSCB. Joyce Yu and our postdoc Vivian Li (WICB Early Career rep Gautem Dey. We are Award Medal, Crick Institute, I enjoyed meeting many of you very grateful to them for their London). They will give their online at Dynamic Cell IV and commitment and attention to award presentations and receive look forwards to seeing you detail from the first concepts to their medals at our 22–24 again at ‘Cell la Vie’ online in the advertising and awarding of September 2021 meeting in September 2021 and in Paris the prizes. Joyce and Gautem Paris, ‘Cell la Vie’. in 2022. finished their time on the BSCB committee at the end of 2020, In contrast to most UK and our new reps, Rowan Taylor societies, we decided to go (PhD rep) and Alex Fellows ahead with awarding our BSCB Anne Ridley (postdoc rep) have coordinated summer studentships for the BSCB President the design of the two new summer of 2020. This enabled medals, which will be ready to 12 undergraduate students to award to our medal winners in carry out 6–8-week research March. projects with the laboratories of BSCB members. Most of these The ongoing pandemic means ended up being data analysis that we now have a backlog projects online, which gave the of BSCB Hooke Medals and students valuable experience 2 NEWS BSCB News was online, providing a rare opportunity for us to be photographed, or captured in a screenshot Lockdown did not stop the together. If you are BSCB from working. Instead we interested in getting more moved online. During Lockdown involved in the BSCB the BSCB twitter feed provided committee please contact a hub for the Cell Biology our Secretary. community’s work in keeping scientific discourse and debate The BSCB opened going. In particular several two new medals, the journal clubs and seminar series Raff award and the which sprang up. Postdoctoral Researcher medal to applicants. Several BSCB events went Several applications were online, including our summer received and the winners meeting on 23 September, Stephen Robinson, UEA, has projects. Dynamic cell which will be announced at our Spring organised by ECRs from both taken over from Judith Sleeman was postponed from last year meeting. British and French Societies. as our Digital content, Imaging is now happening online to Details are still being worked competition and writing find out more about what is To support researchers during out and will be communicated competition manager; we happening please see our lockdown the BSCB launched when finalised as well as would like to thank Judith for webpage. a Covid assistance fund – see updated on the meeting all of her work and welcome below.
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