Heidi successfully defended her Phd today. Her thesis concerned the structure and function of HSP27, and various disease variants thereof. Her examiners were Christine Slingsby, the godmother of small heath-shock protein structure and Professor Emeritus at Birkbeck College London, and Emily Flashman from our department, who is an expert in chemical biology and structural methods. Heidi first joined the group in 2009, when we were in Cambridge as an undergraduate student, before returning for a PhD in 2012. We will miss Heidi, and wish her all the best at UCB!