ISMB Future Perspectives Day 2019
On June 18th the ISMB held its inaugural Future Perspectives Day for
PhD students and PDRAs. The opening session (chaired by Snezana
Djordjevic) addressed the important issue of Open Access and the
changing landscape of research publications, and featured three
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ISMB staff retreat 2019 at London Zoo
On a sunny day in June, just before the summer solstice, staff from the ISMB at UCL and Birkbeck had their (now) annual retreat this year at the London Zoo. In our busy lives as academics, these away-days provide us with the rare opportunity to catch up with our colleagues from across Torrington Place.. →
GCRF International Capacity-Building Workshop held at Birkbeck
A GCRF (Global Challenges Research Fund) International Capacity-Building Workshop to tackle Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in tuberculosis (TB) was hosted by the ISMB-Mycobacteria Research Lab at Birkbeck on 5th July, lead by Professor Sanjib Bhakta.
More information about the event is available.. →
Paper by Professor Neil McDonald’s group featured on cover of Nature Cell Biology
A paper by Professor Neil McDonald’s research group, in collaboration with Sir Richard Treisman, has been published in Nature Cell Biology, identifying a new RPEL-family of rhoGAPs that link Rac/Cdc42 GTP loading to G-actin availability.
The paper is available here.
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Professor Helen Saibil’s group publish paper in Cell Reports
Professor Helen Saibil’s research group have published a paper titled ‘Two-Step Activation Mechanism of the ClpB Disaggregase for Sequential Substrate Threading by the Main ATPase Motor’ in Cell Reports in June 2019.
The paper is available here.
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Professor Bart Hoogenboom’s group publish paper in ACS Nano
Professor Bart Hoogenboom’s research group published a paper titled ‘Quantification of Biomolecular Dynamics inside Real and Synthetic Nuclear Pore Complexes using Time-Resolved Atomic Force Microscopy’ in ACS Nano in June 2019.
The full paper is available here.
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Studying protein conformation using a new cyclic ion mobility mass spectrometry (cIMMS) device
Dr Konstantinos Thalassinos
We are the first group to publish a paper on how a new cyclic ion-mobility mass-spectrometry (cIMMS) device, manufactured by Waters, can be used to probe protein structure and dynamics. In particular, the tandem ion mobility capabilities of the instrument allow us.. →
Professor Maya Topf’s group publish paper in Plos Biology
Professor Maya Topf’s research group published a paper titled ‘Protein interactions and consensus clustering analysis uncover insights into herpesvirus virion structure and function relationships’ in Plos Biology on 14th June.
The full paper is available here.
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Professor Frances Brodsky’s group publish paper in eLife
Professor Frances Brodsky’s research group published a paper titled ‘Genetic diversity of CHC22 clathrin impacts its function in glucose metabolism’ in eLife on 4th June.
The paper is available in full here.
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Professor Bart Hoogenboom’s group publish paper in Nature Communications
Professor Bart Hoogenboom’s research group published a paper titled ‘Single-molecule kinetics of pore assembly by the membrane attack complex’ in Nature Communications on 6th May.
For an overview of the paper, please click here.
The full paper is available here.
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