PhD Success for Simone Bertolini October 16, 2017 Congratulations to Simone Bertolini from Anton Gartner‘s research group who passed his PhD viva today. His thesis was entitled, ‘Genetic and cytological analysis of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint component BUB-3 in DNA damage response’. The examination committee consisted of Tomo Tanaka (Internal Examiner), Patricia Kuwabara, Bristol (External Examiner) and Gordon Simpson (Convenor).