News



— 2025 —



12 August 2025

Congratulations to Harriet and Sam H.-A. on submitting their MSc theses!

5 August 2025

Thank you, Cherie, for all your hard work this summer! Wishing you the very best of luck with your final year.

25 July 2025

Thank you for all your energy and dedication this summer, Gina! Wishing you success in the year ahead.

18 July 2025

Smith Lab Reunion in Cambridge.

Favs
Some of the best people around

11 July 2025

Bateson Centre Symposium, University of Sheffield, UK
Stan introduces his lab to the Bateson Centre for Disease Mechanisms by giving a talk.

10 July 2025

Northern(ish) England Developmental Biology Meeting, University of Sheffield, UK
The lab attended this excellent BSDB-sponsored meeting. Stan is still presenting posters… how much longer will this continue?

Cool Kids
Left to right, Stan, Harriet, Sam G., Cherie, and Gina!

2 July 2025

Lab Excursion to Golf Fang Sheffield. In the end, everyone gets a hole-in-one!

Take Flight
Stop staring at me swan!

Medals awarded at Friday’s journal club!

Go for gold!
Cherie, Gold; Sam H.-A., Silver; and Harriet, Bronze.

25 June 2025

Welcome to Sissy Wamaitha (Amander Clark Lab, UCLA), visiting Sheffield to give the DRN Seminar.

FWC4LyFe
Sissy and Stan

16 June 2025

A warm welcome to Cherie Cheung and Gina Penetra, who are joining us this summer through the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Scheme.
Cherie will be exploring cell signalling and Gina will be working on genome stability.

Cherie Cheung
Cherie Cheung
Gina Penetra
Gina Penetra

28 May 2025

Welcome to Thorsten Boroviak (University of Cambridge), visiting his PhD Alma Mater to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.

Jolly!
Dr. Boroviak in action.

19 May 2025

abcam, Cambridge, UK
Stan gave a talk at the abcam Cambridge Site. Thank you Anne Wiblin for hosting!

shiny
abcam, but I bet you could tell
shinier
Also abcam, the hint is in the logo

14 May 2025

Welcome to Lawrence Bates (Jennifer Nichols Lab, University of Edinburgh), visiting to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.

cafe
Lawrence and Stan at Coffee Revs
what am I doing with my hands?
Lawrence Presenting

12 May 2025

Lab Excursion to Mam Tor with our visitor Lawrence Bates!

on the mount
Counter-clockwise from the front: Stan, Lawrence, Harriet, and Sam
Onto the mount
Mam Tor in the distance

7 May 2025

Welcome to Robert Insall (UCL), visiting to give the Materials & Biological Physics seminar in Sheffield.

24–27 March 2025

Biologists @ 100, Liverpool, UK
Stan presented a poster at this exciting centenary event. Many thanks to the British Society for Developmental Biology for providing travel funds!

Angular
CoB @ 100
It's Bright
Museum of Liverpool

12–14 March 2025

Sy-Stem 2025, Vienna, Austria
Stan gave a talk at Sy-Stem and caught up with many familiar faces from the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

Blub
Axolotl fish!
IMP
Willkommen!
Nice Slide!
We are indeed recruiting!

10 March 2025

Stan dropped in on Martin Leeb at the Max Perutz Labs, Vienna, to catch up over some rum punch kuchen!

Yo!
Martin and Stan
Graphic!
Something about insulin?

7 March 2025

Cambridge Developmental Biology Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, UK
Stan gave a talk and saw many friendly faces. Thank you for the invite!

Hi Mom!
Gurdon Poster Famous.
Sigh
Christ's College

3 March 2025

Welcome to Josh Brickman (University of Copenhagen), visiting to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.

Cheers
Anestis, Josh, Ivana, and Stan

17 February 2025

Manchester Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine Seminar, University of Manchester, UK
Stan gave a talk hosted by the Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine. Thank you, Anzy Miller, for the invitation!

Helical
Infographical!
Regal
Gothic.

10 February 2025

Welcome to Harriet English and Samuel Higgins-Aguilar, who are joining the lab as part of their MSc in Reproductive and Developmental Medicine.
They will be investigating the implications of aneuploidies on extraembryonic lineage specification.

Harriet English
Harriet English
Samuel Higgins-Aguilar
Samuel Higgins-Aguilar

2 February 2025

Welcome to Vicki Metzis (MRC LMS), visiting to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.

15 January 2025

Welcome to Anzy Miller (Nancy Papalopulu Lab, University of Manchester), visiting to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.



— 2024 —



16 December 2024

Excursion up Win Hill with the Placzek Lab et al. Thank you Marysia and Andy for hosting!

Quad!
Oscar the Lab stealing the show.

22 October 2024

Stan gave a talk at a Physics of Life (PoL) Joint Project Meeting in Sheffield that brought together PoL fellows and investigators from Sheffield, London, and Warwick.

16 October 2024

Welcome to Marta Shahbazi (MRC LMB), visiting to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.

September 2024

The Strawbridge Lab is established in name and begins transition from the University of Cambridge to the University of Sheffield!

Thank you Cambridge for a fantastic 11 years. Endless thanks to the Smith, Nichols, and Basu Labs.

Quad!
Firth Court
Biochemical!
Prof Sir Hans Krebs, FRS