News

11 Apr 2018

Inaugural postdoc research day

Today we held the Department's first postdoc research day, which showcased research across the Department.A programme of nine talks by postdoc speakers, chosen to represent a wide range of research themes, was well attended throughout the day by postdocs, other staff and research students and was followed by the annual Departmental barbeque with pe…

11 Apr 2018

Academic promotions

Congratulations to Rick Livesey, Jules Griffin and Juan Mata.Congratulations to Rick Livesey and Jules Griffin on their promotion to Reader, and to Juan Mata who will become Senior Lecturer.

11 Apr 2018

Regulation of jumping genes

The Lipkow Group have published a new paper in the journal eLife.Karen Lipkow and her collaborators have published a paper in the new online journal eLife: "The autoregulation of a eukaryotic DNA transposon", which explains the regulation of transposons, also known as 'jumping genes'. For the full story and a link to the paper see the University ne…

11 Apr 2018

Eric Miska elected Herchel Smith Professor

Eric Miska has been elected the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics.For more information about the Herchel Smith Fund see their website. Added note: while remaining based in the Gurdon Institute, Eric has changed departmental affiliation to the Department of Genetics.

11 Apr 2018

Rick Livesey receives Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award

Rick Livesey has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award.Rick received the award for his work on Human stem cell models of Alzheimer's disease. For more information see the Wellcome Trust website.

11 Apr 2018

Megan Bywater awarded EMBO Fellowship

Congratulations to Megan Bywater who has been awarded a long term EMBO Fellowship.

11 Apr 2018

Nana-Maria Gruening receives Otto Hahn Medal

Nana-Maria Gruening has been honoured with the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society.On Wednesday 5th June, Dr. Nana-Maria Gruening was honoured with the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society, Germany. Each year, up to 30 medals are given to young scientists of the Max Planck Society for outstanding achievements in their PhD projects. The a…

11 Apr 2018

Award for Kevin Brindle

Kevin Brindle receives European Society for Molecular Imaging award.At the annual meeting of the society in Turin this week Kevin Brindle was awarded the European Society for Molecular Imaging Award 2013.

11 Apr 2018

£1M award for diabetes and obesity research

Jules Griffin and collaborators have been awarded £1M by the MRC.Jules Griffin and researchers at MRC Human Nutrition Research have been awarded £1 million by the Medical Research Council to set up a programme of research based on human interventional studies into aspects of type 2 diabetes and obesity. The work will utilise state of the art mass s…

11 Apr 2018

New understanding of DNA replication

The Pellegrini Group have published a new paper in the journal eLife.Using a combination of crystallographic, biochemical and computational evidence they have shed light on the initiation of DNA synthesis in eukaryotic replication. The DNA Polymerase α (Pol α)/primase complex initiates DNA synthesis. In the complex, Pol α and primase cooperate in t…

11 Apr 2018

Biochemistry on Everest

While we shiver in an unseasonably cold late March in the UK, Jules Griffin has been on Everest!At Namche, about 3,800 m above sea level Jules and student Tom Ashmore started testing themselves, acting as guinea pigs for their own medical research. Experiments continue at Everest Base Camp at 5,300 m.TheXtreme Everest 2 expedition they have joined …

11 Apr 2018

£5.3M award for cancer imaging

Kevin Brindle has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Strategic Translation Award, with a value of over £4 million, which with a contribution from CRUK totals £5.3 million.Through a research agreement with GE Healthcare the Brindle lab have been developing metabolic imaging using MRI and hyperpolarised 13C-labelled cell substrates as a clinical tool for …

11 Apr 2018

George Salmond elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology

George Salmond is amongst eighty-seven microbiologists who have been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology.Fellows of the Academy are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. There are over 2,…

11 Apr 2018

Biochemistry PhD student wins Access to Understanding Prize

Ian Le Guillou, who has been studying for his PhD in Ernest Laue's group, has won joint second prize in a science writing competition.Entrants to the Access to Understanding competition were challenged to summarise a cutting-edge research article, communicating in a simple and accessible way what the research is, and why it matters, for a non-speci…

11 Apr 2018

Bacterial banter: a target for therapeutics

Departmental research has been featured in the University's Research Horizons publication.The research in George Salmond's and Martin Welch's groups, amongst others, has been featured in the latest edition of the University's Research Horizons magazine and is also featured online on the University website.