On September 12-14 the Unit hosted an international meeting on ‘cell signalling and disease' between the United Kingdom and Research Institutes in Texas. The meeting was organised and funded by the Department of Trade and Industry in London who also awarded a prize for the best three posters presented by a graduate student or a post doc. The posters were judged by a team of four, two from Texas and two from the UK. All three prizes were awarded to Dundee based researchers. Two students in the Unit, Claire McCoy (from Simon Arthur's lab) and Alberto Vitari (from Dario Alessi's lab) were awarded two of the prizes. The third was awarded to Sharon Matthews (a post doc in Doreen Cantrell's lab) in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. The awardees each received a cheque for £150.00.