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13 Apr 2018

New class of enzyme may help biotechnology

The Dupree Group have published a new paper in Nature Communications.In a paper published today in Nature Communications entitled "Structure and boosting activity of a starch-degrading lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase", Paul Dupee's group and colleagues at the Universities of York, Marseille and Copenhagen, and at Novozymes, have found a new clas…

13 Apr 2018

Cutting-edge chemistry

A paper from the Ralser Group has been featured in the magazine Chemistry World.The paper by Markus Ralser and colleagues in 2014 on the possible origin of metabolic pathways in archaean oceans has been featured by the Royal Society of Chemistry in its magazine Chemistry World as a highlight in ground breaking chemical sciences research.

13 Apr 2018

Dr Derek Bendall

The Department is very sad to report the death of Dr Derek Bendall on 4th December, aged 84.He had been a member of the Department for decades, remaining active throughout his retirement. During his long career, he made major contributions in bioenergetics, and especially in photosynthesis and photosynthetic electron transfer. He was an integral pa…

13 Apr 2018

Centipede genome published

The genome of the centipede has been published in PLOS Biology.An international team of more than 100 researchers (including Jenny Barna) has published the genome of the centipede Strigamia maritima. The paper "The First Myriapod Genome Sequence Reveals Conservative Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima"…

13 Apr 2018

Insight into DNA repair

The Robinson and Pellegrini Groups have jointly published a new paper in Nature Communications.Nick Robinson's and Luca Pellegrini's groups have published a paper in Nature Communications entitled "Structure of the hexameric HerA ATPase reveals a mechanism of translocation-coupled DNA-end processing in archaea". Thermophilic archaea have a minimal …

13 Apr 2018

Steve Oliver a "Great British Bioscience Pioneer"

Steve Oliver has described some career highlights as part of a celebration of 20 years of the BBSRC.Steve Oliver has described some career highlights and the way BBSRC has supported him in an article on the BBSRC website, part of a celebration of 20 years of the BBSRC.

13 Apr 2018

Biochemistry student wins Top Student Award

Congratulations to Victoria Wang who was awarded a Top Student Award by the Society of Biology.Congratulations to Victoria Wang, currently studying for Part III (MSci) Biochemistry and a member of Pembroke College, who was awarded a Top Student Award by the Society of Biology based on her achievements in Part II Biochemistry.

13 Apr 2018

Markus Ralser wins South Tyrolean Science Prize

Markus Ralser has been awarded the South Tyrolean Science Prize.Markus Ralser's success in research has been recognized in his native province of South Tyrol by the award of a 10,000 Euro prize: the Suedtiroler Wissenschaftspreis (South Tyrolean Science Prize). Markus is now based both here in the Department and at the MRC NIMR in London.

13 Apr 2018

Kevin Brindle elected Fellow of European Academy of Cancer Sciences

Kevin Brindle has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences.The European Academy of Cancer Sciences is an independent European advisory academy of eminent oncologists and cancer researchers. The Academy has 183 fellows from 19 countries.

13 Apr 2018

Second year PhD Poster Prize winners 2014

The Department has just held its annual poster competition for all second year PhD students.The standard of all the entries was extremely high. Thanks are due to Chris and Tom in the Photography and Graphics section for their work in preparing the posters, to all the students who took part and to the team of judges. We also thank sponsors New Engla…

13 Apr 2018

Poster prize for Biochemistry PhD student

Congratulations to Anthony Riseley who was awarded 1st prize at the Fourth Consortium Meeting of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network.Congratulations to Anthony Riseley, a PhD student in Chris Howe's group, who was awarded 1st prize at the Fourth Consortium Meeting of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network PHOTO.COMM in Portugal earlier this …

13 Apr 2018

Aleksandra Watson appointed Fellow at Murray Edwards College

Aleksandra Watson is now Fellow in Natural Sciences at Murray Edwards College.Aleksandra Watson, a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, is now Fellow in Natural Sciences and Director of Studies for Biochemistry at Murray Edwards College.

13 Apr 2018

Biochemistry PhD student's "High Impact Social Enterprise"

Grecia Gonzalez has written an article about the social enterprise SimPrints.Grecia Gonzalez, a Gates Scholar, has written an article about her work with the team that set up SimPrints, a social enterprise dedicated to tackling a major problem in the developing world: identification.

13 Apr 2018

Takashi Ochi wins Gordon Conference Poster Prize

Congratulations to Takashi Ochi who has won a poster prize at the recent Gordon Research Conference on Genomic Instability.The poster was about structural and functional studies of a protein related to DNA-double strand break repair.

13 Apr 2018

High speed enzyme evolution

The Hollfelder Group have published a new paper in Nature Chemistry.Florian Hollfelder's group, together with colleagues in the Department of Chemistry, have published a paper in Nature Chemistry entitled "Evolution of enzyme catalysts caged in biomimetic gel-shell beads". Natural evolution relies on improvement of molecules by successive rounds of…