Chris MacDonald Lab | University of York

Lab news

Return to the lab

After 3 months working from home, York Yeast are back in the lab!

What are we made of?

All members of York Yeast went into a local school to enthuse school children about cell biology! We got to “build” our own cells using sw...

North of England Cell Biology Meeting

MacDonald Lab travelled to the University of Manchester for the North of England Cell Biology (NECB) meeting. Everyone took a poster alon...

Pint of Science 2019

Pint of Science is an annual festival that runs for three consecutive evenings where exciting science is combined with a trip to the pub!...

Erasmus student Daniel leaves the lab

Having spent 5 productive months with us, Daniel Bisinski is returning to the lab of Christian Ungermann in Osnabrück to complete his mas...

Kamilla & Hannah give talks

The autumn Cell Biology Seminar series continued today. Kamilla presented some of her work about membrane trafficking pathways that are m...

Han-jou presents a Cell Biology Seminar

One of our newest lecturers, Han-Jou Chen, kicked off the internal Cell Biology Seminar series today with a brilliant seminar about prote...

New PhD students arrive

Katherine Paine has joined the lab through a Biology Department studentship to begin her PhD aimed at understanding the mechanisms that c...

Chris Stefan visits York

Chris Stefan from the LMCB at UCL came up to York for a visit. Chris gave a seminar about his work understanding how membrane contact sit...

Review published

Kamilla and Chris wrote a short review article discussing the endosomal pathways that control membrane protein trafficking in yeast. The ...

NECB meeting in Huddersfield

The lab visits the University of Huddersfield for the North of England Cell Biology Forum conference. Lots of good talks and opportunitie...

Leadership Course

Chris attends a 3-day management course run by Imperial College Business School. Lots of things learned and useful skills developed. Firs...

Ally O’Donnell visits York for the day

Ally O’Donnell from the University of Pittsburgh popped over to York for the day and presented her new work on how alpha arrestins regula...

Biology Department Research Away Day

The Research Away Day was held in York this year, at the Hospitium. Chris and Jared Cartright also made a short presentation about uses o...

Lysosome GRC in New Hampshire

Chris attends the lysosome GRC and presents a poster on endosomal organisation. It was great to catch up with old friends and hear about ...

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