Thanks to the generosity of the family of Abbie Clark, Sjoerd van Helvert, a visiting intern student from HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, is to benefit from the proceeds of a collection made at Abbie's funeral.

Abbie …more

Mutations in the gene encoding the protein kinase LRRK2 (leucine rich repeat kinase 2) cause autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease [1, 2]. The most common mutation replaces glycine 2019 with a serine within the magnesium-binding DFG motif of the kin …more

Kei Sakamoto, a Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit will become the Head of a new Division of Diabetes Research at the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences in Lausanne Switzerland. Kei, who has also been appointed to a Professors …more

The January 1st 2012 issue of the Biochemical Journal features three articles by Programme Leaders in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, which run consecutively from pages 325 – 357 of Volume 441 of the journal. In the first article Dario  …more

Congratulations to Dr Kumara Dissanayake from Carol MacKintosh's group who was awarded the 2011 Howard Elder Prize for his paper on the transcriptional repressor Capicúa [Dissanayake et al Biochem J. 433, 515-525].

Capicúa (Cap-ee-Co …more

Congratulations to Jenny van der Wijst, who is currently working as an EMBO Fellow in Dario Alessi's lab, studying the regulation and function of the unusual TRPM6 and TRPM7 ion channel-protein kinases. Jenny has just been awarded a prize for the …more

Mutations in PINK1 were discovered in 2004 in patients suffering from familial Parkinson's disease. PINK1 is an unusual protein kinase containing a mitochondrial targeting domain and 3 insertions within its kinase domain. Despite intensive research l …more

Members of the Dundee and District Diabetes UK Volunteers Group visited the MRC Protein Phosphosrylation Unit (PPU) at Dundee on November 8th. The Volunteer Group has raised £20,000 over the past few years and generously donated it to Kei Sakamoto's  …more

Alexander von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in Kei Sakamoto's lab was awarded joint first prize at the poster competition for Ph.D. students based in the College of Life Sciences (CLS) at the University of Dundee who are about to start the third year o …more

Serge Ducommun, a visiting Master's student in the Department of Biotechnology at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland has been awarded a prize for carrying out the best resea …more