GRE Christmas Decoration Competition December 19, 2018 GRE got into the Christmas spirit with a division wide Christmas decoration competition. Each lab got their creative thinking caps Read More
Platinum Informatics win at Scottish EDGE December 7, 2018 Last night, the newest spin out company from the School, Platinum Informatics were winners at the Scottish EDGE competition final. Read More
Debora Pasquali successfully defends PhD thesis November 28, 2018 Debora Pasquali from Tomo Tanaka’s lab successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Dynamics of kinetochores and microtubules in yeast Read More
Seraina Blumli passed PhD viva November 5, 2018 Congratulations to Seraina Blumli from Tom Owen-Hughes’ lab who passed her PhD viva today. Her thesis was entitled ‘Engineering Cell Read More
Meng-Ying Wu awarded prize at 3rd year PhD student poster session October 25, 2018 Yesterday, saw our annual poster session for our third year PhD students take place in the School. The event allows Read More
Viva success for Laura D’Ignazio October 12, 2018 Congratulations to Laura D’Ignazio from Professors Sonia Rocha and Ron Hay’s labs for passing her PhD viva! Laura’s thesis was Read More
The KinoViewer: New proteomics and transcriptomics Kinase analysis and visualisation tool September 28, 2018 A new publication by Brenes and Lamond (Bioinformatics, 2018) presents the ‘KinoViewer’, an interactive tool for Kinase analysis using proteomics Read More
Funding boost for Gartner lab September 24, 2018 Professor Anton Gartner has been awarded a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) grant totalling quarter of a million Read More
Cutting-edge microscope revealed at opening of new £5m structural biology centre September 11, 2018 Scientists launched the new £5 million Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging (SCMI) today at the Medical Research Council University of Read More
Platinum Informatics make the final of Converge Challenge September 6, 2018 The newest spin-out company from the School, Platinum Informatics Ltd, has already been recognised by Converge Challenge who aim to Read More
Global Challenges Research Funds awarded to collaborative project September 3, 2018 Three new funding awards from the Global Challenges Research Fund were recently made to research teams in the Division of Read More
New methodology for isolating polysomes and other large subcellular structures developed by Lamond group August 14, 2018 The Lamond laboratory have developed an efficient and highly reproducible new methodology for isolating polysomes and other large subcellular structures, Read More
Cryo electron microscopy captures ubiquitin opening the nucleosome August 10, 2018 Dr Ramasubramanian Sudaramoorthy and co-workers have determined the structure of an enzyme that regulates access to DNA bound to a Read More
Anton Gartner catches up with former students in Manhattan July 25, 2018 Professor Anton Gartner was able to catch up with three of his former students while on a trip to the Read More
Näthke/Blow collaborative research publication selected for ‘outstanding’ special collection July 18, 2018 A recent publication from the laboratories of Inke Näthke and Julian Blow has been selected for a special collection of outstanding Read More
Welcome to our newest PIs in GRE, Federico Pelisch and Kasper Rasmussen July 11, 2018 The newest laboratories in the School have been established in the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression. Former postdoctoral researcher Read More
Professor Victoria Cowling receives Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award June 28, 2018 Professor Victoria Cowling has received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. This scheme, jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation Read More
Career Profile: Victoria Cowling on her MRC Fellowship June 21, 2018 Today, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) launched its prestigious £900 million Future Leaders Fellowship Scheme that is open to best Read More
New Proteomic Study of Trypanosome Cell Cycle June 12, 2018 A new study entitled “Proteomic Analysis of the Cell Cycle of Procylic Form Trypanosoma brucei” has just been published in Read More
Piotr Zdankowski passes viva! May 28, 2018 Congratulations to Piotr Zdankowski who passed his viva today with a thesis entitled “Adaptive optics stimulated emission depletion microscope for Read More
Big funding for big data follows Prime Minister’s AI speech May 28, 2018 Funding of £1million has been announced to help University of Dundee scientists tackle the challenges of dealing with big data, Read More
Boon-Chin Tan joins Simpson lab on Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship May 14, 2018 Boon-Chin Tan, a senior lecturer in the Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture at University of Malaya, Malaysia, has Read More
SLS collaboration finds new mechanism of transcriptional control May 9, 2018 A collaboration between the Schweikert and Cowling research groups in the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a new mechanism Read More
Launch of new University spin-out company Platinum Informatics Ltd May 1, 2018 Platinum Informatics is a new spin-out company providing state of the art software solutions for the management, visualisation and analysis Read More
Scientists enhance understanding of cancer development mechanisms May 1, 2018 An interdisciplinary research collaboration has taken a significant step towards understanding the mutational causes of cancers, a finding which may Read More
Dundee joins global effort to build Human Cell Atlas April 20, 2018 The University of Dundee is joining a global effort – with the help of funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Read More
New class of E3 ligase discovered by Virdee lab in collaboration with van Aalten lab April 12, 2018 Dr Virdee and colleagues in the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) have discovered a novel Read More
The Image Data Resource is added to the list of Scientific Data recommended data repositories April 3, 2018 Nature Research journal Scientific Data is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, and research that advances Read More
Dundee scientists solve 3D structure of key protein involved in Intellectual Disability April 2, 2018 Scientists in the School have identified the effects of a mutation that gives rise to a form of Intellectual Disability. Read More
PhD success for Q. Tyrell Davis April 2, 2018 Congratulations to Q. Tyrell Davis from Prof Tomo Tanaka and Dr David McGloin’s groups, who passed his PhD viva on Read More
Harnessing the power of a protein to prevent breast and ovarian cancers February 20, 2018 Research from Professor Anton Gartner’s group in the Centre for Gene Expression and Regulation has provided new information on the Read More
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for Katarzyna Knop February 20, 2018 Katarzyna Knop, a post-doctoral researcher in Gordon Simpson’s lab, has been awarded a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. Her research Read More
Tenovus Scotland funding success for Haru Yoshikawa February 12, 2018 Dr Harunori Yoshikawa has been awarded Tenvous Scotland grant in the most recent round of funding. Dr Yoshikawa, postdoctoral researcher Read More
Award for OME Data Curator Eleanor Williams February 9, 2018 Dr. Eleanor Williams has received the Biocuration Career Award in 2018 from the International Society for Biocuration. Dr. Williams has Read More
New insights into Parkinson’s disease uncovered by Gartner lab. February 2, 2018 Research in the laboratory of Professor Anton Gartner has discovered two novel molecules that could help in the fight against Read More
£200,000 ‘Dragons Den’ boost for cancer research January 24, 2018 The charity Worldwide Cancer Research has awarded Professor Anton Gartner just over £200,000 to study ways to improve the use Read More
Dundee Plus Award for GRE PhD student January 12, 2018 Laura D’Ignazio, a PhD student from Sonia Rocha’s lab in the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression (GRE), was recently awarded Read More
