Members of the Unit undertook quite a challenge on Sunday 10th July when they decided to walk from the laboratory in Dundee to Tentsmuir beach in Fife (some 15 miles away). Starting off early in the morning, they arrived on the beach in time for a ba …more

Three PhD students funded by the new Wellcome Trust four year PhD program who have spent the final "rotation" of their first year in the Unit have all decided to stay here for the remainder of their PhDs. Robert Cartlidge will work with Philip Cohen, …more

Three of the five Wellcome Trust funded PhD students in the School of Life Sciences decided to undertake their third ten week project rotation within the MRC Unit. They are pictured in front of the Yuji Saito memorial tree. We wish them every success …more

Nicholas Tonks, who leads a research team at the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York, USA has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the discovery and characterisation of protein tyrosine phosphatases. Nick Tonks studied for his PhD with …more

Yvonne Fleming, a PhD student in the MRC Unit successfully defended her thesis entitled "The mechanism of activation of SAPK1/JNK" on May 21st. After a 40 minute public lecture followed by questions, the formal viva was conducted by Simon Cook (exter …more

A cherry tree has been planted outside the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at Dundee in honour of Yuji Saito, a postdoctoral scientist in the MRC Unit from 1992 to 1995. Yuji died tragically a few years after returning to Japan. Members of the Unit have con …more

MRC Unit postdocs have been productive outside as well as inside the laboratory. Simon Rousseau (a postdoc from Canada) and his wife Nancy, as well as Tamas Zeke (a postdoc from Hungary) and his wife Zsuzsanna Guba (a technician in the Division of Si …more

Congratulations to Carol MacKintosh, who has been promoted to Reader in Biochemistry within the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. In turn, Carol thanks and congratulates her graduate students and postdocs for their hard work, imagi …more

Two of the Unit's graduate students defended their PhD theses on April 6th. Sarah Meek (a graduate student working with Carol Mackintosh) gave an oral presentation entitled "Cleavage of 14-3-3 binding proteins by an Arabidopsis sugar-regulated protea …more

There has been much excitement over the recent discovery that Peutz Jeghers Syndrome (PJS), an inherited disorder that predisposes to a wide spectrum of benign and malignant tumours, is caused by mutation of a widely expressed protein kinase, termed  …more