Latest News
September 2012
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28 Sep 2012Congratulations to Dr. Neda Masoudi of Anton Gartner’s Lab who successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis entitled, C. elegans TSP-17 Protects Dopaminergic Neurons 'A Model for Parkinson's Disease'on Friday 28 September. Her Internal Examiner was Miratul Muqit and External Examiner was Jean-Louis Bessereau of INSERM, Paris.
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28 Sep 2012A fond farewell to Dr Elizabeth Bayne who is leaving GRE to take up her new post as Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Elizabeth came to Dundee from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh, where she was a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Prof. R.C. Allshire, studying the link between RNA interference (RNAi) and chromatin modification, in fission yeast.
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24 Sep 2012The Medical Research Council (MRC) has awarded a grant of almost £1.5million to researchers at the University of Dundee to carry out research on the mechanisms that prevent inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The award from the MRC’s Infections and Immunity Board has been made to Professor Sir Philip Cohen. Sir Philip and his team have already made significant findings which have identified potential new targets for drugs to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
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18 Sep 2012The College of Life Sciences is once again delighted to be opening its doors to the public as part of the nationwide event Doors Open Day 2012*, when organisations across the city provide free access to buildings members of the public would otherwise not be able to visit.
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14 Sep 2012On Monday 17 September Dr Nicola Stanley-Wall of the Division of Molecular Microbiology at CLS will receive the RSE Beltane Prize for Public Engagement at a Royal Society of Edinburgh Dinner at the stunning mountain resort of Nevis Range, Torlundy, Fort William.
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10 Sep 2012A paper published in the September 2012 issue of Nature reveals, for the first time, how enzymes stimulate the transfer of ubiquitin, the protein that plays a critical role in the proper functioning of cells and therefore in the development of disease. Professor Ron Hay of the Division of Gene Regulation and Expression at the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee and Professor Jim Naismith of the University of St.
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10 Sep 2012Biochemical Society Novartis Award Lecture
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03 Sep 2012Talking about breast cancer
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03 Sep 2012Crime fiction fans could find themselves at the dead centre of their favourite authors’ forthcoming books in the latest opportunity offered by the Million For A Morgue campaign at the University of Dundee.
