Congratulations to Maria Kalantzaki of the Tanaka lab for obtaining her PhD entitles “Dissecting the role of Ndc80 and Dam1 complexes in tethering kinetochoresat the microtubule plus end; an in vivo approach” on Thursday 18 April. Her Internal Examiner was Eric Griffis and her External Examiner was Professor Helfrid Hochegger of the University of Sussex.