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Many congratulations to Ariella Weinberg-Shukron , a new HFSP Fellow in the Ferguson-Smith lab, who has just been awarded the Israel National Postdoctoral Award for Women in Science, a prize in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements to date. Well done, Ariella!

Last year the closure of schools and restricted access to research labs across the UK put a stop to many of the research placements that would normally take place in the summer. These placements play an important role in providing students with experience of what a career in research is like, before deciding what to do...

For many years Alfonso Martinez-Arias has been at the heart of the Developmental Biology community in Cambridge, first in Zoology and for the past 20 years in Genetics. Throughout his time here he has pushed the boundaries of fundamental biology, driven by the question of how cells make choices. First with the fly then...