€2 M European funding award for Victoria Cowling December 7, 2017 A scientist from the School has been awarded €2 million to study how cells respond to infection. Professor Victoria Cowling, Read More
PhD success for Jamie Carrington November 14, 2017 Congratulations to Jamie Carrington from Prof Julian Blows group who passed his PhD viva today with a thesis entitled “Post-Replicative Read More
Viva Success for Mehmet Gundogdu November 13, 2017 Mehmet Gundogdu from Prof Daan van Aalten Lab passed his PhD viva today with a thesis entitled “Understanding O-GlcNAc transferase tetratricopeptide Read More
Michael Batie passes PhD viva! November 13, 2017 Congratulations to Michael Batie from Prof Sonia Rocha lab who has successfully passed his viva today! His thesis was entitled Read More
Lamond and Watt groups identify key role of specific protein phosphatases in human skin stem cell commitment to differentiation. November 13, 2017 A collaboration between the Lamond and Watt groups identifies a key role of specific protein phosphatases in human skin stem Read More
Hidden final step for chromosome inheritance discovered by Tanaka lab November 3, 2017 The research group led by Professor Tomo Tanaka has made a significant new discovery about how cells properly inherit their Read More
Dundee-China links strengthened with guest professorship for Daan van Aalten November 1, 2017 The University of Dundee has formed a new link with China, with Professor Daan van Aalten from the School being Read More
Julianty Frost passes PhD viva October 25, 2017 Congratulations to Julianty Frost who passed her PhD viva today with a thesis entitled “VHL inhibitors as chemical probes of the Read More
The Lamond lab demonstrates a new approach to study proteome variation across the cell division cycle called PRIMMUS October 23, 2017 In a publication in eLife, Ly et al. report a workflow combining FACS and MS-based proteomics to analyse protein abundance Read More
PhD Success for Simone Bertolini October 16, 2017 Congratulations to Simone Bertolini from Anton Gartner‘s research group who passed his PhD viva today. His thesis was entitled, ‘Genetic and Read More
Dundee scientists solve 3D structure of key defence protein against Parkinson’s disease October 5, 2017 Scientists at the University of Dundee have identified the structure of a key enzyme that protects the brain against Parkinson’s Read More
Research from Lamond group identifies the plant biflavone, hinokiflavone, as a pre-mRNA splicing modulator September 28, 2017 A new article from the Lamond group, published in eLife, reports the identification of the plant biflavone, hinokiflavone, as a Read More
Congratulations to Olga Suska September 27, 2017 Olga Suska from Vicky Cowling’s lab passed her PhD viva today. Her thesis was entitled, ‘Investigating the role and regulation of Read More
Success at the Undergraduate Awards for Life Sciences Students September 27, 2017 Congratulations to the following Life Sciences students and graduates who have been Highly Commended in the 2017 Undergraduate Awards. These Read More
PhD success for Ilaria Volpi September 26, 2017 Ilaria Volpi from Julian Blow’s lab passed her PhD viva last week. Her thesis was entitled, “The role of the protein Read More
The Lamond Group report an Interactive Online Web App and Database for polyomics Big Data in a new manuscript in Nucleic Acids Research September 11, 2017 Brenes et al., Review the Encyclopedia of Proteome Dynamics A new manuscript from the Lamond group, published in Nucleic Acids Read More
Solar flares dazzle at Mills Observatory August 10, 2017 Solar experts from the University of Dundee joined citizen scientists to observe the mysteries of our Sun at Mills Observatory Read More
£1.5M Wellcome Trust award for cell cycle study August 4, 2017 Biochemists at the Universities of Liverpool and Dundee have been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award in Science of Read More
School researchers exploit a novel anti-cancer target August 4, 2017 A collaboration between Professor Julian Blow’s lab and the Drug Discovery Unit has provided insights into how differences between normal Read More
Miniature marvels under the microscope July 24, 2017 Fruit flies, larvae, and flat-worms used by the University of Dundee in ground-breaking scientific research will be going under the Read More
Sonia Rocha appointed as Head of Biochemistry, Liverpool July 5, 2017 Professor Sonia Rocha takes up a new position at the University of Liverpool as Head of Biochemistry this month. Sonia Read More
‘Big Data’ resource raises possibility of research revolution June 19, 2017 A group of UK scientists led by the University of Dundee have demonstrated how aggregating image data from laboratories all Read More
Triple PhD transfer success June 13, 2017 Our first year postgraduate students Joana Silva, Meng-Ying Wu and Paul Murphy have all successfully passed their PhD transfers today. Well Read More
£1.1M funding success for Alabert lab June 5, 2017 Dr Constance Alabert has been awarded a £1.1million ERC Early Career Stage grant to investigate the impact of DNA replication on epigenetics. Read More
PhD success for Olivia Lombardi May 24, 2017 Olivia Lombardi, a BBSRC funded PhD student based in Professor Vicky Cowlings group, passed her PhD viva today. Her PhD Read More
Lamond Group Contribute to the UK’s Largest Resource of Human Stem Cells from Healthy Donors May 10, 2017 Reported in Nature today, one of the largest sets of high quality human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from healthy individuals has Read More
Former GRE researcher becomes junior group leader in Milan April 20, 2017 Kristina Havas Cavalletti has recently taken up a junior group leader position at the IFOM Cancer Research Institute in Milan. Read More
First sight of chromatin organising enzyme in action. March 24, 2017 Researchers, including those from Professor Tom Owen-Hughes lab in GRE, have recently published a study which visualises the complex interactions Read More
Success for GRE at School Awards March 20, 2017 The School of Life Sciences Prizes were presented last week at the Research Symposium in Crieff. Each of the judging panels Read More
A collaboration between the Lamond group and former GRE Principal Investigator Anne Donaldson published in EMBO J. January 27, 2017 Using their expertise in quantitative proteomics, the group of Professor Angus Lamond in GRE has collaborated with the group of Read More
High School of Dundee pupil reaches finals for cancer research conducted in GRE January 26, 2017 A cancer research project carried out in GRE by a local school pupil has reached the final of a prestigious Read More
Knowledge Exchange Network on Epitranscriptomics funded by EU January 25, 2017 A new initiative involving reseachers from across Europe; including Professor Victoria Cowling from GRE; has been funded by the COST Read More
Stephen Fry Awards commend Outer Space I Inner Space project January 17, 2017 Outer Space I Inner Space was commended in the Public Engagement Project of the Year category of the Stephen Fry Awards Read More
Constance Alabert joins GRE January 12, 2017 Constance Alabert joined the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression as a new PI this week. Constance was previously a Research Read More
