We are delighted to announce that Greg Findlay has opened his first independent laboratory here at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC-PPU).

Greg comes to us from the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount …more

Congratulations to Kei Sakamoto who is currently Head of Diabetes at the Néstle Institute of Health Sciences in Lausanne, Switzerland. Kei has been promoted to full professor at the nearby École Polytechnique Fé …more

Jeremy Nichols who is now the Director of Signal Transduction & LRRK2 Biology Program at the Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center in Sunnyvale California has just received a Citation award for his paper entitled  …more

To aide worldwide research in protein phosphorylation and ubiquitylation, the MRC-PPU has launched a new website termed "MRC-PPU Reagents" in which researchers working in any academic laboratory can request any of our cDNA clones, antibodies or reco …more

Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell as they supply most of the fuel, known as ATP, that drives essential chemical reactions. They also perform many other important functions involved in metabolism, signalling, development and cell death. Giv …more

Parkinson's disease is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder and the MRC-PPU is at the frontline of research trying to understand the origins of this disease and developing new ideas on diagnosis and treatment.

On November 6th two PhD s …more

Congratulations to MRC-PPU Principal Investigator (PI) Vicky Cowling, who has received an esteemed European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Young Investigator Programme (YIP) Prize. Every year EMBO go to great efforts to scour Europe, Israe …more

NUAK1 and NUAK2 are members of the AMPK family of protein kinase that are activated by the LKB1 tumour suppressor kinase. Recent work suggests they play important roles in regulating key biological processes including Myc driven tumourigenesis, senes …more

A group of postdocs and PhD students from the MRC-PPU, Frances Rose-Schumacher, Michael Munson, Sam Strickson, Catherine Rodger, Yosua Kristariyanto, George Allen, Nicola Phillips, Anna Kelner, Flora Keppie and Owen Conway, aided by MRC Communication …more

Congratulations to Manman Guo of the Trost lab who was awarded a prize at the College of Life Sciences 2nd Year PhD student poster competition on Friday 19th October 2013. Manman presented a poster entitled 'Characterization of phagosomal proteo …more