A new affinity tag for the purification of recombinant proteins termed the ‘Dac-tag' has been developed by Axel Knebel who is the head of the Protein Production and Assay Development team at SCILLS. Together with the MRC and SCILLS cloning team …more

Eeva Sommer, a PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, working on the role of SGK in cancer, recently got married. What was most impressive was that Eeva was still in the lab on the Friday, the day before the wedding and back in the lab again on Monday.  …more

Since Philip Cohen arrived in Dundee in 1971, as well as becoming one of the world's mostly highly cited biochemists and a leader in his field, he has been a major driving force in putting Dundee on the map in scientific terms. Not only did he es …more

David Komander, ex-PhD student of Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten (now working as a group leader at the LMB in Cambridge), and Sonja Flott, ex-PhD student of John Rouse (now working in Abcam in Cambridge) have had a new baby, Emma C. Komander.
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Mutations in the protein kinase PINK1 were discovered in 2004 in patients with early-onset Parkinson's disease. PINK1 is unique among all protein kinases since it contains an N-terminal mitochondrial targeting motif and its catalytic domain is also u …more

Congratulations to Laura Pearce, an ex-PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, who is currently a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in Sadaf Farooqi's laboratory at the Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge. Laura has received a ce …more

For the past 14 years the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been helping the pharmaceutical industry to initiate and accelerate that the development of drugs that target kinases and phosphatases in a unique collaboration, called the Division of Si …more

Representatives of Parkinson's UK and the J. Macdonald Menzies Charitable Trust, as well as Parkinson's patients, visited the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit (MRC-PPU) on May 3rd to hear about exciting research developments on Parkinson's disease at …more

On the 23rd of March three staff from the MRC-PPU visited the Dundee University Nursery to have a fun half day of experimenting. Nicola Wood, Vicky McGuire and Gail Gilmour, assisted by Nursery staff, helped the children get hands-on with some messy, …more

Many congratulations to Ayaz, a PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, for his award of the CLS Innovator of the Year Prize for the development of the ProteinGuru program that greatly facilitates the analysis of complex mass spectrometry data. Ayaz was n …more