Celebrating Frank's successful defence of his viva!
Thank you to Frank's examiners - Aga Gambus and Zoë Waller.
Frank presents his PhD work at the ICR
Left-to-right: Adi, Billie, Frank, Gideon, Maria, Ellie and Corella
The summer tradition of a lab BBQ returns!
An important lab tradition - going out for great food to welcome new lab members. This time we welcomed Ellie Wright.
Maria and Billie attended the "Helicases and Nucleic Acid-based Machines" conference in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal
The institute commissioned a professional photoshoot...
More posing for the professional photoshoot
Manolo came to visit with his son Javier. Sophie also joined. First proper alumni get-together.
The prompt was "fighting cancer"
The Coster Lab - anime style
From left-to-right: Gideon, Frank, Billie, Corella, Maria and Adi
From left-to-right: Adi, Corella, Gideon, Billie, Maria and Frank
Welcoming two postdocs to the lab - Adi and Maria.
Sightseeing in Japan, attending the 3R3C conference in Fukuoka
More sightseeing in Japan - Tokyo
After giving a seminar at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Gideon and Rodrigo Bermejo were treated by Hiro Araki and Masato Kanemaki to a Japanese delicacy - Grilled Eel.
Having dinner with some colleagues in Japan, from left to right: Hartmut Vodermaier (EMBO J Editor), Diana van den Heuvel (LUMC), Rodrigo Bermejo (CIB-CSIC), Martijn Luijsterburg (LUMC), Masato Kanemaki (NIG)
Gideon meeting with Cristina Cardoso, who was Corella's PhD supervisor, at the 3R3C conference in Japan
The lab welcomes its newest PhD student - Billie Delpino
Frank bravely accepted a last minute invitation to present his project at the Biochemical Society UK DNA Replication conference in Cambridge
Celebrating an 8-year Career Development Award from the Wellcome Trust
Sophie's PhD ceremony
Sophie's PhD ceremony, here with Annette Argent (retired recently)
One of our goodbye gifts to Manolo
Farewell to Manolo - our very first postdoc!
Corella baked a cake - of course you can see that it is shaped like a G-quadruplex (G4)
Sophie popping open a bottle of fizzy to celebrate passing her viva with flying colors!
Thank you to Alessandro Costa (Crick) and Julian Sale (MRC-LMB) for examining Sophie's PhD work.
Sophie presenting her PhD work at the ICR
Strolling around Manhattan when attending the Cold Spring Harbour Replication meeting, Manolo bumped into none other than the amazing tennis player Alcaraz!
Attending the Cold Spring Harbour "Eukaryotic DNA Replication & Genome Maintenance" meeting always carries the risk of getting a free caricature. Spot on!
And some churros for dessert!
Always important to celebrate everyone's successes - Sophie's paper got accepted and Manolo was awarded the "Ramon-y-Cajal" fellowship to start his own lab in Spain.
Finishing off the lab BBQ with yummy treats
Summer isn't complete without a lab BBQ
Every year, the institute holds a two-day conference at the beautiful Royal Holloway campus. Fun mix of hearing about recent science and socialising.
Sophie won a Prize for best poster at the Fusion "Balancing Genome Fidelity & Plasticity" conference in Mexico. Well done!
Sophie attended and presented a poster at the Fusion "Balancing Genome Fidelity & Plasticity" conference in Mexico
Celebrating the lab's very first publication! A joint effort by Manolo, Corella and Sophie
The Divisional away day - a relaxed opportunity to meet and talk to other colleagues
Sophie was selected to present at the FASEB "Dynamic DNA Structures in Biology" conference in Canada
Sophie and Manolo attended the FASEB "Dynamic DNA Structures in Biology" conference in Canada
We welcomed our second PhD student - Frank Sabin
The first days of the lab - started off completely empty!
