The Medical Research Council has invested £200,000 in a new national network which will help scientists overcome barriers to working in interdisciplinary science

X-Net has been formed to bring together researchers spanning all career stages in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to facilitate the sharing of expertise and knowledge among its members.

Louise-Kristine Nielsen was awarded the prestigious Sir James Black Award for setting up workflows for analysing archival fixed clinical human tissue samples from the gut by mass-spectrometry during her Honours’ project in Esther Sammler’s lab in the MRC PPU. Additionally, she was recognized with prices for graduating as the best A-grade Honours student in both Biomedical and Neurosciences.

Researchers from Adrien Rousseau’s lab in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee, Scotland, have identified mechanisms contributing to the stress-induced increase in proteasome abundance using yeast. This new study is now published in Nature Cell Biology.

Marc van Grieken, chair of the Dundee Research Interest Group (DRIG) gives powerful introduction to Randy Shekman’s public lecture: Parkinson’s disease: up, close and personal while Brendan Hawdon, DRIG secretary, leads lively Q&A session in 2022.

We are delighted that Jin Rui (Amos) Liang has opened his laboratory in the MRC PPU. Amos intends to identify and characterise other novel factors that regulate ERphagy. He will also explore the physiological roles of ERphagy and investigate how ERphagy is disrupted in diseases such as cancer.

The organisation Research.com recently published a list of the scientists working in the fields of Biology and Biochemistry with the highest Hirsch (H) Factors https://research.com/scientists-rankings/biology-and-biochemistry/gb.

The EMBO Workshop entitled “Reversible phosphorylation, signal integration and drug discovery” concluded today in Vouliagmeni, near Athens, Greece with a special lecture to mark the seminal contributions made by Tricia Cohen to the field of Protein Phosphatases.

Dr Xingui Liu has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to undertake research in the lab of Professor Alessio Ciulli in the newly established Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD). The project is in collaboration with Professor Dario Alessi from the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit and a Japanese pharmaceutical company.

A delegation from National Innovation Centre (Nepal) led by its Chairperson Dr. Mahabir Pun and European coordinator Hari K. Neupane, visited the MRC PPU on 13th April 2022.

A delegation from National Innovation Centre (Nepal) led by its Chairperson Dr. Mahabir Pun and European coordinator Hari K. Neupane, visited the MRC PPU on 13th April 2022.