Interview with the 2023 Hooke medal winner Andrew Carter

Abstract

ABSTRACT Andrew Carter studied biochemistry at the University of Oxford, where he discovered his love for structural biology, which prompted him to join Venki Ramakrishnan's lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) for his PhD. Here, he used X-ray crystallography to study the ribosome and its interactions with antibiotics. He then spent a year as a postdoc at Clare College, Cambridge, before moving to Ron Vale's lab at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA, where he first began his work on dyneins. Andrew has since devoted his research career to studying dynein, and in 2010 set up his own lab back at the MRC LMB, where his research has contributed significantly to the dynein and motor protein fields. In recognition of this work, Andrew was recently awarded the British Society of Cell Biology (BSCB) Hooke Medal award for 2023 and we caught up with him to ask about this award, his research and his career.