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

It was a busy time for Carol MacKintosh's group when Catherine Johnson became the second of her students to be awarded a PhD within a week. On Tuesday 30th March, Catherine gave a lively account of her project on 'Dual engagement of 14-3-3 proteins  …more

Over the two weeks of the 2010 Edinburgh International Science Festival, 1300 children were entertained and educated by six Scottish MRC Units' activities making cells, viruses, DNA bracelets and test-tube babies, and testing how body symmetry correl …more

Olof Olsson, a student with Carol MacKintosh successfully defended his PhD thesis on 'Novel targets of EGF- and phorbol ester-stimulated phosphorylation and 14-3-3 binding' on 26th March. In the tradition of Swedish PhD vivas, Olof's family travelled …more