Two graduate students in the Unit, Fiona Milne (supervised by Carol MacKintosh) and Gareth Browne (supervised by Tricia Cohen) successfully defended their PhD theses within days of each other in December 2000. Fiona gave her final PhD lecture on Friday the 15th entitled "Affinity - binding procedures to identify and investigate cellular regulation of 14-3-3 binding proteins" followed by a three and half hour oral examination conducted by Professor Alastair Aitken (University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Mike Stark.
Gareth Browne's lecture, on Monday the 18th, was entitled "Regulation of a novel glycogen targetting subunit of protein phosphatase 1 by insulin and nutrition" and his oral examination was conducted by Professor Steve Yeaman (University of Newcastle) and (an overworked!) Mike Stark. This may explain why Gareth's oral examination only took two hours!
Gareth Browne's lecture, on Monday the 18th, was entitled "Regulation of a novel glycogen targetting subunit of protein phosphatase 1 by insulin and nutrition" and his oral examination was conducted by Professor Steve Yeaman (University of Newcastle) and (an overworked!) Mike Stark. This may explain why Gareth's oral examination only took two hours!