Natalie Hoffmann successfully defended her PhD thesis today! Natalie was one of the first PhD students to join the McFarLab. Natalie’s thesis investigated the interplay between the endomembrane system and changes to the plant cell wall. She made several exciting discoveries about how changes to cell wall synthesis can affect the endomembrane system; watch this space for more details about her work soon, since she has multiple first-author publications under review.