Representatives of Parkinson's UK and the J. Macdonald Menzies Charitable Trust, as well as Parkinson's patients, visited the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit (MRC-PPU) on May 3rd to hear about exciting research developments on Parkinson's disease at …more

On the 23rd of March three staff from the MRC-PPU visited the Dundee University Nursery to have a fun half day of experimenting. Nicola Wood, Vicky McGuire and Gail Gilmour, assisted by Nursery staff, helped the children get hands-on with some messy, …more

Many congratulations to Ayaz, a PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, for his award of the CLS Innovator of the Year Prize for the development of the ProteinGuru program that greatly facilitates the analysis of complex mass spectrometry data. Ayaz was n …more

The EMBO Journal Cover Contest, initiated by the editors of the journal in 2003, highlights the creative potential of the authors and readers of The EMBO Journal, and showcases the beauty they find in the scientific and non-scientific world around th …more

The British Biochemical Society has chosen Dr Kristopher Clark in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit (MRC-PPU) at the University of Dundee to receive an Early Career Development Award in 2013.

These prizes are presented annually to four  …more

Thanks to the generosity of the family of Abbie Clark, Sjoerd van Helvert, a visiting intern student from HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, is to benefit from the proceeds of a collection made at Abbie's funeral.

Abbie …more

Mutations in the gene encoding the protein kinase LRRK2 (leucine rich repeat kinase 2) cause autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease [1, 2]. The most common mutation replaces glycine 2019 with a serine within the magnesium-binding DFG motif of the kin …more

Kei Sakamoto, a Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit will become the Head of a new Division of Diabetes Research at the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences in Lausanne Switzerland. Kei, who has also been appointed to a Professors …more

The January 1st 2012 issue of the Biochemical Journal features three articles by Programme Leaders in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, which run consecutively from pages 325 – 357 of Volume 441 of the journal. In the first article Dario  …more

Congratulations to Dr Kumara Dissanayake from Carol MacKintosh's group who was awarded the 2011 Howard Elder Prize for his paper on the transcriptional repressor Capicúa [Dissanayake et al Biochem J. 433, 515-525].

Capicúa (Cap-ee-Co …more