PhD awarded to Agne Kazlauskaite

PhD awarded to Agne Kazlauskaite
PhD awarded to Agne Kazlauskaite

Agne Kazlauskaite, who has been supervised by Miratul Muqit and Dario Alessi, has successfully defended her PhD. Over the last 4 years Agne has undertaken groundbreaking research into the function of the PINK1 kinase including the discovery that PINK1 phosphorylates ubiquitin.

Her examiners were David Komander of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who is a former MRC PPU PhD student himself (supervised by Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten) and Calum Sutherland of the School of Medicine in Dundee.