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Fergus Preston, who is undertaking a PhD within the DDU and WCAIR, was one of 10 successful applicants for the Scientific Update Young Chemist award.
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Dr Susan Wyllie, Head of the Mode of Action group within WCAIR and Principal Investigator in the School of Life Sciences, underwent a successful tenure review recently.
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Dr Graham Christie has been appointed as Academic Regional Lead (ARL) for South East Asia (ASEAN).
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Three PhD students from the MRC PPU have successfully made It through to the final round of the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES).
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PhD Student Seraina Blümli and colleagues from the Owen-Hughes lab show the ARID1A subunit of the BAF chromatin remodelling complex organised nucleosomes flanking pluripotency transcription factors and association of the coactivator EP300.
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The annual third year PhD poster session took place last week on-line, with excellent entries from 21 students across the School.
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Dr Christina Schilde has been appointed as a lecturer as part of the D’Arcy Thompson Unit.
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Joana Faria, a postdoctoral researcher in David Horn’s Lab (BCDD-WCAIR) who is moving to establish her own group at the University of York, has been awarded the Wellcome-Beit Prize.
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An industry-wide consortium, led by producer organisation G’s Growers and supported by the James Hutton Institute, the University of Dundee and James Hutton Limited, has won a UKRI-BBSRC collaborative training partnership award.
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Collaborative research between the Universities of Dundee and Cambridge has uncovered how ‘assassin’ immune cells are able keep on killing as they hunt down cancer cells, repeatedly reloading their toxic weapons.
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The new academic year 2021/22 has started and the School has welcomed the new intake of Honours project students.
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Recently published papers from the Ferguson lab describe the presence of a fucosyltransferase in the mitochondria of two protozoan parasites
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Vivien Shek, a second year PhD student, has been awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellowship.
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Kirby Swatek will open an independent research laboratory in the MRC PPU at the beginning of 2022.
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Trypanosomes break more rules: evidence for the convergent evolution of glycosyltransferase function
Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are enzymes that transfer sugars from donor to an acceptor molecule. There are dozens of GT gene families, classified by sequence, sequence motifs and enzymatic function.
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Virginia De Cesare has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, one of the UK’s flagship fellowship schemes for early career investigators, in addition to being promoted to an Independent Investigator position within the MRC-PPU.
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Professor Kim Dale has been appointed as Assistant Vice-Principal (International) for the University of Dundee.
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Dr Martin Balcerowicz has been awarded a five-year Royal Society University Fellowship to research how temperature affects plant growth. This work may provide ways to breed plants that are more resilient towards climate change.
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Professor Hari Hundal has been appointed as Academic Regional Lead (ARL) for South Asia.