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16 Apr 2018

Sandra Fulton receives Pilkington Prize

We are delighted to announce that Dr Sandra Fulton has won a prestigious Pilkington Prize, the University's annual award honouring outstanding quality and excellence in teaching.Sandra is our Assistant Director of Teaching and is Senior Tutor at Girton College. Her dedication, diligence, wisdom and creativity contribute a large part to the outstand…

16 Apr 2018

The molecular basis of polysaccharide cleavage by lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

The Dupree Group have published a new paper in Nature Chemical Biology.Paul Dupree and colleagues have published a paper in Nature Chemical Biology, entitled "The molecular basis of polysaccharide cleavage by lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases".

16 Apr 2018

Could the food we eat affect our genes?

The Ralser Group have published a new paper in Nature Microbiology.Markus Ralser and colleagues have published a paper in Nature Microbiology. The study, carried out in yeast – which can be used to model some of the body's fundamental processes – shows that while the activity of our genes influences our metabolism, the opposite is also true and the…

16 Apr 2018

Steve Jackson is one of two winners of the King Faisal International Prize for Science

The prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Science has been won jointly by the Gurdon Institute's Steve Jackson and Harvard Medical School's Vamsi Krishna Mootha.Professor Steve Jackson is recognised for "his outstanding contribution to defining the link between the basic mechanism of genomic DNA instability and its relationship to cancer.…

16 Apr 2018

Kathryn Lilley receives joint Wellcome Trust Investigator Award

Professor Kathryn Lilley and Professor Anne Willis (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester) have received a joint Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in December 2015.The project entitled "Transcription, Trafficking, Translatation: dissecting the spatiotemporal mechanisms underlying localised protein synthesis" will run for 5 years starting mid…

16 Apr 2018

Paolo Bombelli receives Shuttleworth Foundation award

Paolo Bombelli has been awarded a Flash Grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation.Paolo Bombelli, a postdoctoral researcher in Chris Howe's group, has been awarded a Flash Grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation to recognise and help support his innovative work on obtaining electrical power from plants and moss.

16 Apr 2018

Florian Hollfelder in collaboration with MedImmune

The Hollfelder Group have published a new paper in the journal Chemistry & Biology.A collaboration between Florian Hollfelder's group and MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, has led the researchers to identify a potentially significant new application for a well-known human enzyme, which may have implication…

16 Apr 2018

Prize for Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson wins the Gagna A. & Ch. Van Heck Prize.The Gagna A. & Ch. Van Heck Prize of 75,000 Euros is awarded every three years to a scientist or a physician whose work has contributed to the treatment of a currently incurable disease, or has provided an outstanding contribution to basic research resulting in such discovery. This Prize was awar…

16 Apr 2018

Gerard Evan in £8M pancreatic cancer project

Cancer Research UK, The Lustgarten Foundation, and Stand Up To Cancer have come together in an international collaboration worth £8M to announce funding for a pancreatic cancer research 'Dream Team'.Professor Gerard Evan, Cancer Research UK's co-leader of the project, says: "Despite the apparent diversity in pancreatic cancer, there are remarkable …

16 Apr 2018

Steve Oliver awarded Marjory Stephenson Prize

The 2016 Marjory Stephenson Prize will be awarded to Steve Oliver by the Microbiology Society.The Prize is awarded to an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the discipline of microbiology.

16 Apr 2018

Apprenticeship – Laboratory Technician

As of 1st September 2015, Biochemistry has been hosting an Apprentice Lab Technician – Amy Bithell.This is a structured training course in conjunction with Cambridge Regional College. She will initially be working alongside Steve Murfitt in the Sanger Building but, throughout her placement in the Department, she will spend time in a number of diffe…

16 Apr 2018

Yeast communities use cooperative metabolite exchange

The Ralser Group have published a new paper in the journal eLife.Markus Ralser and colleagues have published a paper in eLIfe that could help lead to new biotechnological production systems based on metabolic cooperation. They could also be used to inhibit cell growth by blocking the exchange of metabolites between cells. This could be a new strate…

16 Apr 2018

Launch of Scientists for EU

The new Scientists for EU website has been launched.Scientists for EU began as a grassroots community on Facebook after the last general election when it became clear that there would be a referendum on EU membership. It gathered thousands of followers and media interest. This support has now been linked with other pro-EU campaigns and UK scientifi…

16 Apr 2018

Drug discovery to treat tuberculosis

Tom Blundell and colleagues discuss their research on tuberculosis.In a news feature article on the University website Tom Blundell and colleagues discuss their research on tuberculosis and the progress in their partnership with India.

16 Apr 2018

Second year PhD poster winners

The second year PhD students took part in the annual two-day poster presentation sessions on 1st and 2nd October 2015.The general quality of the posters was exceptionally high, both in terms of the superb science content and the presentational style used in the posters. Indeed, the calibre of the science was of a standard equivalent to that seen in…