Jim Woodgett, who carried out his Ph.D. in Philip Cohen's laboratory over the period 1981-1984, gave an Alumnus Lecture to the MRC-PPU and the College of Life Sciences on October 22nd 2008 entitled 'Genetic analysis of GSK‑3 in insulin and Wnt signalling'. Jim, who is the Research Director of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in Toronto, Canada's premier centre for Life Sciences, stayed on for a further day to examine Ian Kelsall, one of Tricia Cohen's graduate students, for his Ph.D.