The Florey Lab

20/10/2021

We can all take action on the climate crisis - speaking out at work can play an important part. Jo talks here about her environmental work and the Green Labs project underway at the Babraham Institute.

A blueprint for Green Labs: catalysing environmental action at the Babraham Institute The Green Labs project aims to tackle the environmental impact of our research, and other activities, at the Babraham Institute. At a time of climate crisis and ecological emergency, this work is more urgent than e...

17/09/2021

Reducing Carbon Footprint in the Workplace - hosted by One Nucleus: Monday 27 September 2021 - 14:30 - 15:30.
Jo is representing BI Green Labs on the discussion panel
https://onenucleus.com/civicrm/event/info?id=1500&reset=1

16/08/2021

Congrats to Jo Durgan on winning this year's Berridge Prize! Here she talks about her career, work-life and work on the climate crisis:

Meet Dr Jo Durgan - Sir Michael Berridge award winner 2021 Dr Jo Durgan, a postdoctoral researcher in the Signalling research programme, is the Institute’s 2021 Sir Michael Berridge Prize winner. The award was endowed by Sir Michael who was a group leader at the Institute from 1990 until 2004, aft...

29/04/2021

We are excited to present our latest work on non-canonical autophagy, recently published in Molecular Cell. Find out more in the link below.

ATG8 conjugation to phosphatidylethanolamine is a hallmark feature of autophagy. Durgan et al. discover that ATG8 can undergo alternative conjugation, to phosphatidylserine, during non-canonical autophagy processes, such as phagocytosis, on single-membrane compartments. ATG8-PS and ATG8-PE bear dif...

23/02/2021

Like and ? Then check out our exciting new preprint led by . Lots of cool data revealing a novel mechanism of TFEB regulation dependent on GABARAP lipidation during multiple forms of autophagy and non-canonical autophagy.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.22.432209v1

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

23/02/2021

International Day of Women and Girls in Science - invites Jasminka Boskovic, Iris Luz Batalha, Iria Sala and Jo Durgan to share their stories.

29/01/2021

First good lab news of 2021. Katie Sloan successfully passed her PhD viva! Well done Dr Sloan!!

09/11/2020

Jo is presenting at today's AIM Center 2020 eSymposium, starting 9.00 MST/16.00 GMT

05/11/2020

Big congratulations to Katie Sloan on submitting her thesis, a massive milestone in a crazy year!

02/11/2020

One of the best parts of life in science is the great friends made from all around the world - awesome Hall Lab reunion, spanning California to Taiwan, and all the timezones in between!

30/10/2020