Herman and Michael have both succeeded in their quest to leave southern climes for PhDs in the UK. Herman has been awarded a Wellcome Fellowship to fund his PhD at the University of York with Fred Antson,, starting later this year. Michael won a scholarship to fund his PhD at the most famous molecular biology institute in the world – the LMB in Cambridge – where he will get stuck into some structural biology too – working with Lori Passmore. Lori has worked with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan, so he will be a Nobel grandchild…