Buzz Baum is a cell biologist. Buzz studied Biochemistry at Oxford University, obtained his PhD studying the cell division cycle in yeast with Sir Paul Nurse in London, and was a postdoctoral researcher studying cell shape and tissue organisation in fruit flies at Harvard Medical School with Norbert Perrimon. Since 2001, when Buzz returned to the UK, he has led research teams at UCL and in Cambridge. Buzz is an EMBO member. After co-authoring the “inside-out model of eukaryogenesis” with his cousin David Baum in 2014, Buzz switched from working in eukaryotes to archaea. Since 2020 he has run a lab at the MRC’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where his team explores cell organisation and cell cycle control in TACK and Asgard archaea. In doing so, his team aims to put the “inside-out model” to the test. Buzz ran a Creative Science Writing Workshop in the UK, runs a writing group in Cambridge, and is currently writing a popular science book for Penguin on the nature of the biological self (Allen Lane).
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