June 2018 Cell competition is a quality-control mechanism through which tissues eliminate unfit cells. Cell competition can result from short-range biochemical inductions or long-range mechanical cues. However, little is known about how cell-scale interactions give rise to population shifts in tissues, due to the lack of experimental and computational tools to efficiently characterize interactions at the
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June 2018 New research from scientists at Birkbeck and UCL points the way to a new approach in preventing progression of Huntington’s disease (HD), by manipulating the mutated protein associated with the disease. HD is an inherited neurodegenerative disease, thought to affect about 7000 people in the UK. There is currently no treatment or cure for the
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July 2018
Congratulations to Joanne Santini and Andrew Martin on their promotions to Professor of Microbiology and Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology respectively in the Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology at UCL.
July 2018 Congratulations to Professor Andres Ramos on being awarded an MRC Programme grant for the project: 'Molecular mechanisms regulating mRNA transport and local translation in neurons'. The research will investigate the crucial role played by RNA binding proteins in the regulation of the transport and translation of mRNAs in dendritic and axonal locations. The regulation of
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The 2019/20 series of ISMB Friday Wraps continues 15th May 2020.
Speakers and titles will be announced in due course, details here.
Speakers will be presenting remotely via Microsoft Teams; an invitation link will be sent out for each session.