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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.

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.

Congratulations to Gorjan Stojanovski and Hugo Villanueva, who were awarded prizes for their research presentations at this year's ISMB Graduate Symposium. The Symposium was held in the Clore Management Centre at Birkbeck on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th April. Gorjan, from Professor John Ward's group, presented on 'Applying bacterial competition to evolve novel antibiotics.' Hugo, from Dr.
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We are very grateful to the UCL Capital Equipment Fund for the purchase of the new Beckman AUC Optima for the UCL Molecular Interactions Facility that arrived on 25th March 2019. This was installed after Easter and is starting to become operational. This is the first machine of its type to be installed permanently at an
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Dr Salvador Tomas has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Project Grant to study and develop lipid vesicle-based, stimuli-responsive nanoreactors Lipid vesicles resemble empty cells, a starting point where to build up programmable cell-like robots by the step-wise addition of molecular machinery. Developing such robots requires that we understand how chemical transformations are influenced by confinement within
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Dr. Vijay Chudasama's lab, in collaboration with Professor Ben Davis FRS, have published an article titled 'Post-translational site-selective protein backbone α-deuteration' in Nature Chemical Biology. More information is available here. Further information about Dr. Chudasama's research can be found on his lab website.

The Summer 2019 ISMB seminar series, Molecular mechanisms of protein folding and misfolding in human disease, coordinated by Dr Lisa Cabrita, will begin on Wednesday 24th April with the following talk: Tuning protein biogenesis at the level of translation (and the link to disease) Dr. Zoya Ignatova, University of Hamburg, Germany Time: 13.00 Venue: Room B20, Birkbeck All are welcome
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Research presenting a new method for probing solution‐state interactions of arginine side‐chains in proteins by Prof Flemming Hansen and 3rd year Hansen group PhD student Harry MacKenzie was featured as the cover article for the February 2019 European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry. Full paper: Arginine Side‐Chain Hydrogen Exchange: Quantifying Arginine Side‐Chain Interactions in
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A new giant virus that infects bacteria commonly found in the human gut has been discovered by an international team led by researchers from UCL including Professor Joanne Santini, and UC Berkeley. The new ‘megaphage’ called ‘Lak’ is the same size as some bacteria and is the biggest ever reported phage found in the human gut. A
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The Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck has been awarded an Athena SWAN Silver Award by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU), upgraded from its previously held Bronze Award. The award recognises the department’s commitment to achieving gender equality across the institution and the progress that it is making in this area. It is valid until April
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Single-molecule studies can reveal key molecular behaviours that are difficult or impossible to discern at the ensemble level. At the ISMB Biophysics Centre, we are planning trials of new, user-friendly instruments that enable the measurement of protein localisation, conformation, mass and force at the single-molecule level. If your research would benefit from any of these technologies,
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ISMB members Dr Alan Cheung and Dr Anthony Roberts have received the prestigious EMBO Young Investigator Award in recognition of the outstanding quality of their current work and their proposals for future research. The EMBO Young Investigator Programme identifies recent group leaders with a proven record of scientific excellence. In the most recent round of applications the programme
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