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.
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?

2 July 2025
Lab Excursion to Golf Fang Sheffield. In the end, everyone gets a hole-in-one!
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Medals awarded at Friday’s journal club!

25 June 2025
Welcome to Sissy Wamaitha (Amander Clark Lab, UCLA), visiting Sheffield to give the DRN Seminar.

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.
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28 May 2025
Welcome to Thorsten Boroviak (University of Cambridge), visiting his PhD Alma Mater to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.

19 May 2025
abcam, Cambridge, UK
Stan gave a talk at the abcam Cambridge Site. Thank you Anne Wiblin for hosting!
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14 May 2025
Welcome to Lawrence Bates (Jennifer Nichols Lab, University of Edinburgh), visiting to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.
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12 May 2025
Lab Excursion to Mam Tor with our visitor Lawrence Bates!
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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!
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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.
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10 March 2025
Stan dropped in on Martin Leeb at the Max Perutz Labs, Vienna, to catch up over some rum punch kuchen!
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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!
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3 March 2025
Welcome to Josh Brickman (University of Copenhagen), visiting to give the DRN Seminar in Sheffield.

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!
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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.
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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!

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.
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