Elton Zeqiraj, who has been working jointly in the labs of Daan van Aalten and Dario Alessi for nearly the last 4 years on structural analysis of the LKB1 complex, has been awarded his PhD. Pictured is Elton celebrating his success with his two examiners, Grahame Hardie a grandfather and pioneer of the AMPK field, and Steve Gamblin the world authority on structural analysis of the AMP kinase complex. Elton has secured a postdoc position to work in the laboratory of Frank Sicheri at the Samuel Lunenfeld Researh Institute in Toronto. This is the same Institute where a growing list of other previous PhD students in the unit have in recent times gone to undertake a postdoc research including Abdallah Al-Hakim (Dan Durocher), Giselle Wiggin (Tony Pawson) and Satish Patel (Jim Woodgett). Elton's last paper has recently been accepted and Elton plans to depart for his postdoc on the 7th November.