Dates: August 2005 - December 2009

Current Position: Research Scientist, 2cureX, Copenhagen

Publications generated while in the lab:

Villa, F., Goebel, J., Rafiqi, F. H., Deak, M., Thastrup, J., Alessi, D. R. and van Aalten, D. M. (2007). Structural insights into the recognition of substrates and activators by the OSR1 kinase. EMBO Rep. 8, pp. 839-45

Zagorska, A., Pozo-Guisado, E., Boudeau, J., Vitari, A. C., Rafiqi, F. H., Thastrup, J., Deak, M., Campbell, D. G., Morrice, N. A., Prescott, A. R. and Alessi, D. R. (2007). Regulation of activity and localization of the WNK1 protein kinase by hyperosmotic stress. J Cell Biol. 176, pp. 89-100

Vitari, A. C., Thastrup, J., Rafiqi, F. H., Deak, M., Morrice, N. A., Karlsson, H. K. and Alessi, D. R. (2006). Functional interactions of the SPAK/OSR1 kinases with their upstream activator WNK1 and downstream substrate NKCC1. Biochem J. 397, pp. 223-31