Dr Corinne Smith, reader in structural biology and biophysics, was recently awarded a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for her work on clathrin. To find out why Corinne is intrigued by clathrin read her post for the Royal Society of Biology at blog.rsb.org.uk/clathrin-maintaining-cell-health-in-geometric-style

Clathrin cage structures
(images from Kyle Morris and Corinne Smith)