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Our intrepid reporters Kathleen and Edyta also managed to track down one of our Faculty Members at the EMBO Meeting in Barcelona. Fred Wittinghofer is head of the Department of Structural Biology at the Max Planck Institute in Dortmund. For 25 years he has worked on GTP-binding proteins.

Here he talks about ciliary transport and septins, which prevent membrane proteins from trafficking into the cilium membrane, and his future plans (including retirement!)