Awards for GRE Honours Project students December 21, 2016 The Honours Year Symposium was held in the School last week, which provides an opportunity for students to showcase their Read More
PhD Success for Triin Tammsalu December 19, 2016 Triin Tammsalu from Ron Hay’s lab successfully defended her thesis entitled ‘Global identification of SUMO modification site’ yesterday. Her internal Read More
Former GRE postdoc establishes facility for nanobody production. December 7, 2016 Former GRE postdoc, Alejandro Rojas-Fernandez is establishing a facility to generate single chain antibodies (nanobodies) at the Universidad Austral de Read More
The ‘Giant Worm’ Family Event on Sunday 4th December at the Mills Observatory November 28, 2016 A new winter season at Mills Observatory will begin with an interactive project demonstrating how the ‘C. elegans’, a minuscule Read More
PhD Success for Alena Shmakova November 24, 2016 Congratulations to Alena Shmakova from Sonia Rocha’s lab who successfully defended her PhD on Monday. Her thesis was entitled ‘Role of Read More
Molecular commando’ identified to tackle hypoxia pathway November 4, 2016 Scientists at the University of Dundee, including members of GRE, have identified a `molecular commando’ which can be stealthily deployed Read More
Double success for GRE PhD students October 31, 2016 Today the SLS PhD Posters Session was held within the School. This session provided PhD students in their third year Read More
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith gave the 2016 GRE Discovery Lecture October 25, 2016 Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from the University of Cambridge gave the 2016 GRE Discovery Lecture entitled ‘Genome-wide targeting and maintenance of Read More
New therapeutic approach for targeting c-Myc October 17, 2016 c-Myc is a potent oncoprotein which is deregulated in a vast array of human tumours. In healthy cells, c-Myc is Read More
Personal Chairs for Vicky Cowling and Sonia Rocha October 17, 2016 As part of the 2016 Annual Review process for academic staff two members of GRE, Vicky Cowling and Sonia Rocha, Read More
PhD Success for Sarah-Lena Offenburger October 13, 2016 Congratulation to Sarah-Lena Offenburger from Anton Gartner’s group who successfully defended her thesis entitled: ‘A transthyretin-related gene and a neuroligin-like gene Read More
OME receives £1.4m Biomedical Resource Award October 7, 2016 The OME Team has been awarded a £1.4M Biomedical Resource Award from the Wellcome Trust to extend the capabilities of Read More
Cryo EM facility August 29, 2016 First training in the Cryo EM facility took place on Friday 26th August. It is hoped that the facility will Read More
Dundee PhD students uncover a new mechanism of gene control in embryonic stem cells July 22, 2016 Embryonic stem cells have the unique ability to differentiate into the many different cell lineages found in the body. These Read More
Gene expression mechanism solved by GRE/DDU/Compbio collaboration July 18, 2016 In mammals, the mRNA cap structure is critical for genes to be read and proteins to be produced. Addition of Read More
11th Annual OME Users Meeting May 31, 2016 The OME Consortium, led by Jason Swedlow’s Dundee-based OME Team, holds its 11th Annual Meeting this week, Tuesday 31st May Read More
BOD1 Is Required for Cognitive Function in Humans and Drosophila May 18, 2016 In an international collaboration with researchers and clinicians from Germany and Iran, GRE scientists Iain Porter and Jason Swedlow have Read More
Replicating Chromatin May 2, 2016 Dr Ross Fennessy and Prof Tom Owen-Hughes have published a study showing that the positions which nucleosomes occupy are restored Read More
Gene Expression Austerity April 19, 2016 Dr Michael Aregger, Dr Victoria Cowling and colleagues have published a study which reveals how transcription and mRNA capping are Read More
Lamond Lab collaboration provides a vision for medicine precision with new disease data link-up March 23, 2016 Vast amounts of data generated by screening patients for diseases like cancer and arthritis at The University of Manchester will Read More
