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Parkinson’s UK leadership team and people affected by the disease visited the University of Dundee to meet with local researchers to get an overview of the work that they do.
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Parkinson’s UK leadership team and people affected by the disease visited the University of Dundee to meet with local researchers to get an overview of the work that they do.
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A University of Dundee expert has been named as one of the rising stars of European science.
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Dr Greg Findlay and Professor Satpal Virdee, Principal Investigators in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, have been awarded Wellcome Discovery Awards.
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Nick Brewer, Ian Ganley, and Yogesh Kulathu have been promoted to Personal Chair (Professor) as part of the 2022 Annual Review process for academic staff.
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The annual third year PhD poster session took place last week with excellent entries from students across the School.
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Exciting new work just published by the Kulathu Lab describes the molecular players and biochemical principles that govern attachment of UFM1 onto ribosomes.
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Researchers from the University of Dundee have discovered a small molecule that helps to eliminate a Parkinson’s disease-causing protein
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UFM1 is a ubiquitin-like protein conjugated to ribosomes and is important for secretory protein biogenesis and endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis.
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Mahima Swamy from the MRC PPU was awarded tenure last month and has also been successful in obtaining £560,000 from the Wellcome Trust as a 2-year extension to her Henry Dale Fellowship.
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Researchers from Adrien Rousseau’s lab in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee, Scotland, have identified mechanisms contributing to the stress-induced increase in proteasome abundance using yeast.
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The Medical Research Council has invested £200,000 in a new national network which will help scientists overcome barriers to working in interdisciplinary science
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All roads lead west for a University of Dundee scientist who is using pedal power to fund research into Parkinson’s disease.
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Kirby Swatek opened an independent research laboratory in the MRC PPU at the beginning of 2022.
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Mutations in PINK1 are the second most frequent cause of autosomal recessive early-onset Parkinson’s disease.
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Two researchers from the MRC PPU have been awarded places in the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) Forging Futures Scheme.
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Adrien Rousseau has opened a new laboratory in the MRC PPU to investigate signalling pathways controlling proteasome homeostasis.
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John Rouse, together with researchers Detlev Schindler at the University of Wuerzburg, and Minoru Takata at the University of Kyoto, have won the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund 2017 Discovery Award.
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Tom McWilliams, a postdoc at the MRC PPU has been awarded a prestigious Academy of Finland Research Fellowship.
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Scientists at the School have identified the structure of a key enzyme that protects the brain against Parkinson’s disease.
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Life Sciences researcher Professor Karim Labib has been awarded £2million to explore the role that one of the most fundamental processes in cell biology plays in cancer.