Congratulations Hugo Villanueva | Student Update
Hugo Villanueva passed his PhD viva on 6th December 2019, having studied in Dr Renos Savva’s research group at Birkbeck, co-supervised by Dr Vitor Pinheiro and Prof Elena Orlova. Hugo had recently successfully been awarded an IPF award by LIDo to pursue commercialisation of his research.
Two adaptive immune receptor databases hosted at the ISMB
Dr Adrian Shepherd’s computational immunology group are now hosting two databases – OGRDB and VDJbase – that focus on the analysis of large immune repertoire datasets.
The Open Germline Receptor Database (OGRDB) was developed in collaboration with members of the Adaptive Immune Receptor.. →
New findings on the self-preservation properties of killer T cells | UCL research paper published
UCL News article ‘What protects killer immune cells from harming themselves?’ (27th Nov 2019) announces a collaborative paper published in peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, identifying mechanisms by which white blood cells protect themselves.
The paper – ‘Lipid order and.. →
Summer 2020 Research Lab Placements now open for application
Summer 2020 research lab experience projects are now available for application, listed on the Summer Research Lab Experience webpage.
These 6-8 week placements offer an invaluable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a research group and to get career advice from fellow students and mentors.
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Professor Steven Perkins’ paper featured on the cover of Biochemical Journal
Professor Steven Perkins (Professor of Structural Biochemistry, UCL) made the front cover of October’s Biochemical Journal (vol. 476, issue 19) with his latest paper:
Crystal structure of zinc-α2-glycoprotein in complex with a fatty acid reveals multiple different modes of protein-lipid binding
Student Update: PhD Candidate Hugo Villanueva
PhD candidate Hugo Villanueva recently submitted his PhD thesis from BBSRC LIDo sponsored research in the lab of Dr Renos Savva. Hugo’s viva is scheduled for 5th December.
Hugo is the recipient of one of three competitive stipend awards – covering a three-month period – under the.. →
Dr Anthony Roberts’s group determine the cryo-EM structure of the molecular motor dynein-2
Work from Dr Anthony Roberts’s laboratory in the ISMB, in collaboration with Dr Andrew Carter’s group at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge, has determined the cryo-EM structure of the motor protein dynein-2, which transports cargoes and signalling molecules within cilia and flagella. Dynein-2 is fundamental.. →
Two new grants awarded to Dr Giulia Zanetti’s research group
Dr Giulia Zanetti’s research group has been awarded two new grants.
A European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant was awarded for a project which shows how coat assembly can deliver the flexibility necessary to accommodate a wide variety of cargo proteins, and how the process can be.. →
Research symposium to be held in honour of Willie Taylor on 20th September
Patterns in Protein Sequence and Structure (Reloaded)
This research symposium will be held at Birkbeck in honour of Willie Talyor on 20th September 2019, celebrating 40 years of his pioneering research in computational biology.
This symposium will bring together past and current collaborators.. →
Professor Sanjib Bhakta’s group publish article in Frontiers in Immunology
New research led by Birkbeck’s Professor Sanjib Bhakta and Professor Ester Boix from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona offers new hope in the fight against bacterial infections and the rise of antimicrobial drug resistance in tuberculosis (TB), a devastating infectious disease which presents.. →