Congratulations to Professor Frances Brodsky on being elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Cellular and Developmental Biology Section of Biological Sciences, in recognition of her outstanding scientific and leadership achievements.
We are proud to see Frances join the ranks of such distinguished individuals whose, in the words of Academy
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For the past 15 years at UCL, the Thalassinos Lab has been studying alpha-1-antitrypsin, focusing on understanding the early misfolding events and how monomers form higher-order oligomers. Despite numerous models reported in the literature, the formation of the dimer as the first step towards higher-order oligomers has always been intriguing, with many different models of the dimer
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Brian Ho's group recently published a paper in PLOS Journal on 18th July 2024.
Interbacterial competition plays an important role in the dynamics of microbial communities, however the impact of such competition on host defenses is less clear. In this work, we use a zebrafish model to reductively investigate the host response to distinct forms of
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Giulia Zanetti, Head of the Membrane Architecture Laboratory at the Crick, UCL and Birkbeck College, has been awarded £1.2m from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to use advanced microscopy techniques to understand complex secretory processes inside animal cells.
Full article can be read here.
Professor Andrea Townsend-Nicholson has been appointed Vice-Dean Health for the Faculty of Life Sciences from 1st August 2024.
Congratulations!
Welcome to the ISMB Symposium 2024! The Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB) will hold this year's biennial ISMB Symposium at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th June.
Traditionally, the Symposium gathers eminent guest speakers and our own ISMB scientists to present talks on the core research themes of the Institute in
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Kristine Arnvig's research group recently published a paper in the Nucleic Acids Journal. Full paper can be accessed here (doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae338) .
Unexpected complexity of vitamin B12-sensing RNA elements in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lacks the ability to produce vitamin B12, yet this co-factor plays a significant role in Mtb's metabolism and gene regulation. Research
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Join us for Birkbeck's Annual Science Week festival at the Faculty of Science which runs from Wednesday 29th - Monday 3rd June 2024 in-person and online.
This is not one to be missed, where we will host engaging and interactive evening events, including the annual Rosalind Franklin Lecture and the Andrew and Kathleen Booth Memorial Lecture.
All events will continue into the evening with opportunities to take
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