Simon Dowler, a student with Dario Alessi, presented a seminar entitled "Cloning and characterisation of novel Pleckstrin homology domain-containing proteins" on 23rd January 2002 and was then examined by Dr. Len Stephens (The Babraham Institute, Cambridge) and Dr Kees Weijer (University of Dundee). Simon is now working for Biofocus, a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, UK.