Congrats to the @biochemsoc.bsky.social 2027 Award winners, including @helenfoster.bsky.social who has won an Early Career Research Award.
Helen was a PhD student in Andrew Carter’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, and is now a Group Leader at the University of Leeds.
#LMBalumni
Overall, the multi-step assembly process ensures coordinated emergence of structural integrity and motility. Functional modularity appears to be in-built, meaning assembly can easily be modulated to generate the diverse cilia-based structures we see across life.