News

13 Apr 2018

Myc inhibition is effective against glioma

The Evan Group and collaborators have published a new paper in Nature Communications.Together with their international collaborators, Gerard Evan's group have published a paper in Nature Communications, entitled "Myc inhibition is effective against glioma and reveals a role for Myc in proficient mitosis".Gliomas are the most common primary tumours …

13 Apr 2018

New insight into Golgi apparatus organisation

The Lilley and Dupree Groups have published a new paper in the journal Plant Physiology.Kathryn Lilley, Paul Dupree and their colleagues have published a paper in Plant Physiology entitled "Label free protein quantification for plant Golgi protein localisation and abundance". Although the proteomic composition of the Arabidopsis Golgi apparatus was…

13 Apr 2018

Gerard Evan reappointed as Head of Department

Professor Gerard Evan has been reappointed as Head of Department until September 2019.

13 Apr 2018

Luca Pellegrini receives Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award

Congratulations to Luca Pellegrini who has received a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award.These awards support exceptional, world-class researchers, who hold an established academic position. They support researchers who have an international track-record of significant achievement, who have demonstrated the originality and impact of their res…

13 Apr 2018

Luca Pellegrinet attends Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Luca Pellegrinet, a Research Fellow in the Evan lab, was selected to attend the 2014 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology and Medicine.These meetings have been held since 1951 and every year they cover one or more areas of science in which Nobel Prizes are awarded. 37 Nobel laureates attended with around 600 young scientists to share their k…

13 Apr 2018

PhD students 3rd year symposium 2014

This year's 3rd year PhD symposium took place on 1st July 2014.The symposium involved 38 PhD students, and graduate students from other years also attended, along with members of staff - some acting as session Chairs and Judges. Given the number of students presenting this year, the symposium operated as two parallel sessions (in the Hopkins and Sa…

13 Apr 2018

Chris Howe receives University teaching award

Chris Howe is one of a number of Cambridge academics to receive a Pilkington Prize this year.Each year a number of awards are made to honour those who have made an outstanding contribution to teaching. Read the full story on the main University news website.

13 Apr 2018

Translation in fission yeast

Juan Mata and Caia Duncan have published a paper in Nature Molecular Structural Biology.Juan Mata and Caia Duncan have published a paper in Nature Molecular Structural Biology entitled "The translational landscape of fission yeast meiosis and sporulation". They used a method called ribosome profiling to obtain a systematic and high resolution view …

13 Apr 2018

Robin Hesketh lectures at Hay Festival

Robin Hesketh has given a lecture at this year's Hay Festival.Robin Hesketh is one of a number of Cambridge academics taking part this year in the Hay Festival. See Robin's blog for more details of his talk.

13 Apr 2018

New technique helps identify proteins involved in immune response

The Jackson Group have published a new paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.Tony Jackson and collaborators have published a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry entitled "New Insights into the DT40 B Cell Receptor Cluster Using a Proteomic Proximity Labeling Assay". Their new technique allows them to identify clusters of proteins on…

13 Apr 2018

Kevin Brindle's lab shares World Molecular Imaging Society Gold Medal

Kevin Brindle and his team will share the World Molecular Imaging Society's 2014 Gold Medal Award, together with groups from UCSF and GE-Amersham.The award was unanimously approved by the Society's Board of Trustees in recognition of Kevin's and the others' discovery and development of DNP-induced hyper polarized MRI, which has advanced the field o…

13 Apr 2018

Illuminating the basis for drug resistance in pathogenic bacteria

The Luisi Group have published a new paper in Nature.Ben Luisi's group and their collaborators have published a paper in Nature entitled "Structure of the AcrAB–TolC multidrug efflux pump". Many bacterial species can tolerate antibiotics and other toxic compounds partly because of energy-dependent transporters. In Gram-negative bacteria, many of th…

13 Apr 2018

Insight into DNA replication machinery

The Pellegrini Group have published a new paper in Nature.Luca Pellegrini's group, together with their colleagues, have published a paper in Nature entitled "A Ctf4 trimer couples the CMG helicase to DNA polymerase α in the eukaryotic replisome". Each time a cell divides, a large protein machine known as the replisome must make a faithful copy of i…

13 Apr 2018

Discovery of new structure of cell's communication channel could aid drug development

The Jackson Group have published a new paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.Tony Jackson's group, working with colleagues in the Department's Crystallography and Biophysics Facilities and in the Department of Pharmacology, have published a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry entitled "Crystal Structure and Molecular Imaging of the …

13 Apr 2018

Metabolism may have started in our early oceans before the origin of life

The Ralser Group have published a new paper in the journal Molecular Systems Biology.Markus Ralser's group, working with colleagues in Earth Sciences, have published a paper in the journal Molecular Systems Biology in which they propose that chemical reactions typical of the metabolism we associate with living organisms may have started to occur be…