In among the birds of prey, hip-hop dancers and pipe bands at the Tayport Village Summer Festival on 17th July 2010, the 'Made of Molecules' tent was non-stop busy, featuring three activities on the theme of sugar and diabetes. Carol MacKintosh and K …more

Anna Zagorska, who until recently was a PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, has been awarded the 2010 Tim Hunt prize for Cell Biology for her work on the LKB1 NUAK pathway in controlling myosin phosphatase complexes and cell adhesion. The Tim Hunt pri …more

Following the completion of the quarter final round ties in the Dow Putter, the University of Dundee matchplay knockout golf tournament, the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit is assured of having a representative in the final, because Tricia Cohen wil …more

Craig Mackay, a Ph.D. student in John Rouse's team in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has discovered a protein, known as FAN1, which plays a vital role in maintaining DNA integrity and thus prevents mutations which can lead to cancers.
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Maisie has been honoured as the 'Top Fundraising Champion' for her work over the years to raise huge sums of money for the Dundee Diabetes Research Campaign. Over the last three years Maisie has raised over £3000 by participating in various half-mara …more

Abdulla Ibrahim, a medical student from the University of Dundee, has been awarded a Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland bursary to undertake a re …more

Elton Zeqiraj, who undertook his PhD in the MRC Unit jointly supervised by Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten, has been awarded a  …more

For the past four years, five Programme Leaders in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit (Dario Alessi, Simon Arthur, Philip Cohen, Carol MacKintosh and Kei Sakamoto) and four other cell signalling laboratories at the University of Dundee (Doreen Cant …more

Edmond Fischer was yesterday elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. In 1955, Eddy Fischer and his colleague Edwin (Ed) Krebs discovered the first example of enzyme regulation by reversible phosphorylation when they found that glycogen phospho …more

Jeremy Nichols, who has been working as a postdoc in Dario Alessi's lab for the last three and a half years, is departing to take up a Principal Investigator position at The Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, Calif …more