Olof Olsson, a student with Carol MacKintosh successfully defended his PhD thesis on 'Novel targets of EGF- and phorbol ester-stimulated phosphorylation and 14-3-3 binding' on 26th March. In the tradition of Swedish PhD vivas, Olof's family travelled from Sweden to attend Olof's lecture and being clinicians his parents appreciated the implications of Olof's exciting discoveries of a subset of proteins that connect growth factor signaling to the regulation of cell migration and gene transcription. We thank Professors Bengt Hallberg of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Umeå and Colin Watts of the Division of Molecular Physiology University of Dundee for putting Olof through his paces in a three hour ‘viva' exam on his thesis. Then the celebration party could begin, featuring a video of notable events in Olof's Dundee scientific and social life in Dundee.