Nicholas Tonks, who leads a research team at the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York, USA has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the discovery and characterisation of protein tyrosine phosphatases. Nick Tonks studied for his PhD with …more

Yvonne Fleming, a PhD student in the MRC Unit successfully defended her thesis entitled "The mechanism of activation of SAPK1/JNK" on May 21st. After a 40 minute public lecture followed by questions, the formal viva was conducted by Simon Cook (exter …more

A cherry tree has been planted outside the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at Dundee in honour of Yuji Saito, a postdoctoral scientist in the MRC Unit from 1992 to 1995. Yuji died tragically a few years after returning to Japan. Members of the Unit have con …more

MRC Unit postdocs have been productive outside as well as inside the laboratory. Simon Rousseau (a postdoc from Canada) and his wife Nancy, as well as Tamas Zeke (a postdoc from Hungary) and his wife Zsuzsanna Guba (a technician in the Division of Si …more

Congratulations to Carol MacKintosh, who has been promoted to Reader in Biochemistry within the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. In turn, Carol thanks and congratulates her graduate students and postdocs for their hard work, imagi …more

Two of the Unit's graduate students defended their PhD theses on April 6th. Sarah Meek (a graduate student working with Carol Mackintosh) gave an oral presentation entitled "Cleavage of 14-3-3 binding proteins by an Arabidopsis sugar-regulated protea …more

There has been much excitement over the recent discovery that Peutz Jeghers Syndrome (PJS), an inherited disorder that predisposes to a wide spectrum of benign and malignant tumours, is caused by mutation of a widely expressed protein kinase, termed  …more

The MRC is to raise its maintenance grant for all students working towards their Masters and PhDs to a flat rate of £10,000 a year (£12,500 pa in London).

Professor Sir George Radda, MRC Chief Executive, said: "This significant rise in the …more

After three years working in the Unit as a post-doc for Dario Alessi, Michayla Williams has decided to leave Scotland and head off to Dubai. Both Michayla and her husband, David (who has been working at Ninewells Hospital) have decided to go into tea …more

Congratulations to Tricia Cohen, who was appointed to an Honorary Personal Chair in Biochemistry within the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee in February 2001. This is a great honour and reflects her outstanding work in the fields o …more