Different Ways to Build a Brain: Millie Race’s PhD research

Congratulations to Millie Race, who won this year’s ‘Sammy Lee Award for Research in Embryology’ at the Young Embryologist Network (YEN) meeting 2024! This medal is given annually to someone who presents an outstanding piece of research.

To celebrate and share her research, I have created an illustrated infographic that summarises the work she presented at YEN 2024.

Millie Race is a final year PhD student in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. Her work in the labs of Clare Buckley (University of Manchester and University of Cambridge) and Kristian Franze (Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin and University of Cambridge) investigates the role of non-muscle myosin contractility in neural tube hollowing using the zebrafish hindbrain as a model system.

The award honours the life of Sammy Lee, Visiting Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology at UCL, who passed away suddenly on 21 July 2012, aged 54. He completed his PhD at UCL in the lab of Professor Ricardo Miledi in the Biophysics department. During his research career, he contributed to pioneering work on fertility treatments and IVF, before returning to UCL to teach a course on bioethics. He was a passionate teacher who remained dedicated to his students, a great friend to many in the developmental biology community.

Read more about Sammy Lee here: http://www.youngembryologists.org/who-was-sammy-lee/

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