We are delighted to welcome two new Wellcome Trust PhD Programme students to the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC-PPU) at the University of Dundee: Alex Musk and Callum Stanton.

The groups of Miratul Muqit, Ian Ganley and Adrien Rousseau at the MRC-PPU in collaboration with Glenn Masson at the School of Medicine have identified novel crosstalk between the PINK1 mitophagy pathway and the integrated stress response pathway.

The Herne Katha team, who are renowned filmmakers from Nepal, visited Professor Gopal Sapkota’s laboratory at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit within the School of Life Sciences to document his journey and research.

A highly ambitious project led by Miratul Muqit and scientists at the School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine at the University of Dundee has been selected for the highly prestigious 2025 SPARK NS Translational award, a global translational research programme, aimed at accelerating scientific discoveries in Parkinson’s disease to reach patients.

The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor John D. Scott, FRS, to an Honorary Professorship. A world-renowned biochemist and leader in the field of intracellular signalling, Professor Scott brings with him an extraordinary record of scientific discovery, academic leadership, and global collaboration.

We are thrilled to announce that the latest generation of cellenONE X1Neo is being installed at the MRC PPU, UoD SLS. This platform enables us to perform miniaturized end-to-end sample preparation workflows for single cell and spatial proteomic analysis combined with Ultra-sensitive tims-TOF SCP and Orbitrap Astral mass spectrometers.

Abigail Brewer, a recently graduated PhD student, and Jin-Feng Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher, from Prof. Gopal Sapkota’s lab at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit have been awarded the 2024 Howard Elder prize for their exceptional cancer discoveries on targeted dephosphorylation.

The MRC PPU recently welcomed the Director, Dr Sally Burtles, and Chair, Sir John Iredale, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine to the University of Dundee for Kirby’s Lister Prize award ceremony.

In new work funded by Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) researchers in the laboratories of Miratul Muqit and Dario Alessi at the MRC PPU in collaboration with Suzanne Pfeffer at Stanford University have identified a unifying mechanism in the brain that may explain how mutations in two distinct PD-linked genes lead to Parkinson’s disease (PD