News

Fungal infection paper accepted

23 November 2021

We are very excited that our fungal infection paper was just accepted (in principle, but we’re going to celebrate anyway!). The preprint version is available on bioRxiv.

PhD project shortlisted for the MRC-funded programme.

19 November 2021

If you are interested in how macropinosomes form and affect cancer cell biology and want to do a PhD using cool imaging and genetics see the advert on FindAPhD.

Grant awarded!

1 September 2021

Many thanks to the BBSRC and NSF for funding our joint project with the Ballou and Uehling labs on fungal endosymbionts and how they affect their amoeba predators. Postdoc positions in each lab coming soon!

Fully funded PhD position to start in October 2021

24 November 2020

We are very pleased to announce our new PhD position, read more details on our opportunities page.

Our work on a new co-ordinator of cup formation now out in Current Biology

11 June 2020

Read it on ScienceDirect.

Commentary with Liz Smythe on the cool new work by the Grinstein lab on macropinosome resolution now out

17 January 2020

Read the commentary and Grinstein lab's work on macropinosome resolution.

Congratulations to James on publication of his great review on the endocytic pathways in Dicty.

11 December 2019

Read it on The International Journal of Developmental Biology

Great start to 2019 with our work on PIKfyve and bacterial killing accepted in PloS Pathogens!

4 January 2019

Our special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. devoted to all things macropinocytosis is now complete

17 December 2018

Read it on the Royal Society website.

New Soldati paper on mycobacterial compartment rupture accepted. Well done Ana-Teresa and co!

10 December 2018

Read it on PLOS.

Congratulations to Cat for being awarded a Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship to go and work in the Grinstein and May labs!

1 December 2017

Congratulations to Cat Buckley for winning best talk at the international Dictyostelium meeting 2017 in Geneva!

31 August 2017

Our State-of-the-art Review on macropinocytosis for FEBS journal now out

7 June 2017

Read it on FEBS press.

Nice collaborative paper with the Soldati lab on autophagy in mycobacterium infection published in PLoS Pathogens. Well done Elena!

17 April 2017

Read it on PLOS.

JEEK lab retreat

26 October 2015

The Johnston/Elks/Evans/King labs ran away to discuss different approaches an common interests in phagocyte biology. Much fun was had by all, with a good dollop of interesting science and discussion. Hopefully to become an annual event!

Cat awarded an EMBO short term fellowship

20 July 2015

Cat Buckley has just received a fellowship to allow her to visit the lab of Thierry Soldati in Geneva for 3 months. Congratulations Cat!