David Komander, ex-MRC Unit PhD student, who has just been appointed to a Group Leader position at the LMB in Cambridge, has received another piece of excellent news, namely the receipt of the Biochemical  …more

Gerardo Gamba (Universidad Nacional Autonoma México), one of the founders of the ion cotransporter field of research, visited the MRC Unit with two of his colleagues - Diana Pacheco-Alvarez and Paola de los Heros - t …more

David Komander, who undertook his PhD research with Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten, has been appointed to a Group Leader position at LMB. During his time in Dundee (2002-2005), David undertook elegant structural analysis of the PDK1 kinase that rev …more

Sonja, who was John Rouse's first PhD student, has been awarded a prestigious Ernst Schering Fellowship to carry out postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Steve Jackson, University of Cambridge UK on DNA damage signalling responses. These  …more

Following the recent recruitment of Hosea Handoyo from Indonesia and Doren Rosenweig from Israel, the number of different nationalities currently working in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has risen to 27. …more

Philip and Tricia visited South Africa from January 19th-28th, where Philip gave the closing talk of the annual meeting of the South African Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SASBMB), in Grahamsto …more

Kei Sakamoto, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been selected to receive a Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine (SEBM). The Counc …more

As an aerobics instructor and a finalist in Japan's National Aerobic Dance Competition, Kei Sakamoto knew that exercise brought health benefits. What he wanted to find out next was exactly how that exercise worked in bringing beneficial effects to pe …more

Kei Sakamoto, a Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at Dundee has been selected to receive the New Investigator Award for 2007 from the Endocrinology and Metabolism Section of the American Physiological Society. The prize of US$1 …more

On Friday March 30th a reception was held in the College of Life Sciences' Garland Cafeteria to mark the departure of two of its longest serving and most loyal support staff. The huge turnout at the reception was a testament to the popularity of thes …more