Drosophila Metal Biology Lab

Iron, Copper, Zinc, Manganese and Molybdenum

In 2012, the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London was restructured.

In these pages, I have summarized some of the public debate over the ‘restruction’. My laboratory was one of the ‘casualties’: we moved to Mexico City.

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Photo: My last tutorial group wishing me goodbye

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank all colleagues in SBCS who opposed the School's 'restruction'.

I extend my thanks to the hundreds of colleagues who took the time and care to write to the Principal, Simon Gaskell and to the Chairman of Council, Sir Nicholas Montagu and the thousands who signed and commented on the SAVE the SBCS petition.

Also sincere thanks to

Richard Horton,
Editor of the Lancet

Paul Jump and colleagues
@ Times Higher Education

Jeremy Garwood
@ Lab Times

David Colquhoun
and his blog Improbable Science

for their reporting of the dispute.

The efforts to reverse the damage done to the School continue...