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

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