Chandana Kondapalli who has been supervised by Miratul Muqit and Dario Alessi over the last 4 years on a project to uncover the function of the PINK1 kinase has been awarded her PhD. Her examiners were Michel Goedert of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and Anton Gartner of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression in Dundee.

Pictured with Michel and Chandana is John Rouse, Director of the MRC-PPU PhD Programme. In 1997 Michel was John's PhD external examiner here in Dundee.