August 2001 was a good month for Unit scientists, with no less than four papers co-authored by Unit scientists being published in the prestigious EMBO Journal. The papers are (* indicates Unit scientists):

Wang, X., Paulin, F.E.M., Campbel …more

Dario Alessi and two PhD students from the Unit, Nimesh Mody and Gopal Sapkota, recently attended the FASEB meeting on protein kinases held in Snowmass, Colorado. Dario was presenting a seminar at the meeting, whilst Nimesh and Gopal presented poster …more

Unit PhD Student Simon Dowler is teaming up with David Marr of the Wellcome Trust Biocentre to undertake a gruelling 267 mile cycle ride from Dundee to Leeds in order to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The idea for the trip c …more

Several scientists from overseas are spending the summer of 2001 working in the Unit. Susana Alemany and Raquel Hernando have joined us from Madrid for nine weeks, Dorthe Villadsen has come from Copenhagen and is spending 12 weeks here and Esther Del …more

The Unit has successfully secured one of the new and highly prestigious Pre-doctoral Fellowships offered by the Medical Research Council (MRC). Ed MacManus will join Dario Alessi in October 2001. Ed has just graduated from Trinity College Dublin with …more

Six PhD students from the Unit graduated on July 12th at the University of Dundee degree ceremony held in the Caird Hall.

The six new doctors are (supervisors in brackets): Anudharan Balendran (Da …more

Philip Cohen gave the keynote lecture at the EMBO European Meeting on Protein Phosphorylation and Protein Phosphatases on 11th July 2001 in Marburg, Germany. To introduce Philip, the organisers arranged for a special "mystery guest" to attend the con …more

Members of the Unit undertook quite a challenge on Sunday 10th July when they decided to walk from the laboratory in Dundee to Tentsmuir beach in Fife (some 15 miles away). Starting off early in the morning, they arrived on the beach in time for a ba …more

Three PhD students funded by the new Wellcome Trust four year PhD program who have spent the final "rotation" of their first year in the Unit have all decided to stay here for the remainder of their PhDs. Robert Cartlidge will work with Philip Cohen, …more

Three of the five Wellcome Trust funded PhD students in the School of Life Sciences decided to undertake their third ten week project rotation within the MRC Unit. They are pictured in front of the Yuji Saito memorial tree. We wish them every success …more