Two more students from the Unit have successfully passed their PhD vivas.

Yvonne Woods (a student with Philip Cohen) presented a seminar entitled "Identification of novel substrates for DYRK isoforms" on the 24th of August 2001 and was then examined by internal examiner Dr David Meek (Ninewells Medical School, Dundee) and external examiner Dr Peter Roach (University of Indiana, USA). Yvonne has now started a post-doctoral position with Sir David Lane in Ninewells Hospital.

Graeme Carnegie (a student with Tricia Cohen) presented a seminar entitled "Protein phosphatase 4; function and regulatory subunits" on the 10th of September 2001, which was then followed by the viva examination. His internal examiner was Dr Will Whitfield (School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee) and his external examiner was Dr Joquin Arino (University of Barcelona, Spain). Graeme has just departed to start a post-doctoral position with Dr John Scott at the Vollum Institute, Portland, Oregon, USA.

We wish both Yvonne and Graeme all the best with their future scientific careers.