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Read more at: Biochemistry Centenary Alumni Day
Cambridge Biochemistry Centenary

Biochemistry Centenary Alumni Day

Former students and colleagues, please join us for our Centenary Alumni Day on Saturday 26 April, 10am–4pm, with a celebration dinner in the evening. The programme, including talks by Greg Winter, Jeanne Salje and Ross Waller, and booking details are here .

Read more at: Carnivorous Plants Festival Event
Carnivorous Plants Event

Carnivorous Plants Festival Event

Calling all colleagues with teenagers and others curious about carnivorous plants! We have organised a Cambridge Festival event on Saturday 29 March, 2–3.30pm to mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's work on plants that capture and eat insects. Book here.

The event features talks from Ross Waller,...

Read more at: Two new grants for the Jackson Group
Jackson Group

Two new grants for the Jackson Group

We are delighted to announce that the Jackson Group has been awarded two new grants from Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation . These awards will enable their ground-breaking research targeting voltage-gated sodium channels in a variety of cancers, including breast cancer, as well as pharmacological...

Read more at: Paper paves the way to convert properties of lignocellulosic biomass for better use
Fig. 6: Summary of substrate specificity of MAGT and effect of galactosylation on AcGGM-cellulose interaction

Paper paves the way to convert properties of lignocellulosic biomass for better use

Yoshihisa Yoshimi has published a paper in Nature Communications , ' Glucomannan engineering highlights roles of galactosyl modification in fine-tuning cellulose-glucomannan interaction in Arabidopsis cell walls ' with colleagues from the Dupree Lab and the Universities of Warwick, Jagiellonian and Saitama....

Read more at: Biochemistry Away Days
Biochemistry Away Days attendees

Biochemistry Away Days

Over 90 members and associates of the Department attended our Away Days earlier this month. They braved the cold in the Old Divinity School for a splendid annual get-together. The programme included the PhD Symposium, which featured 20 papers and posters from our vibrant postgraduate community. Congratulations to all...

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