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ISMB Postgraduate 'Lockdown' Symposium A one day Symposium celebrating the research of the ISMB's current postgraduate students will take place on Monday 15 June 2020. Full details are available here.

Congratulations to Dr. Giulia Zanetti on being awarded the 2021 Colworth Medal by The Biochemical Society, in recognition of her contributions to membrane trafficking.  Further details about the award are available here. Dr. Giulia Zanetti The Biochemical Society  The Colworth Medal

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. Hugo has made the most of that opportunity by successfully

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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 Repertoire (AIRR) Community, and is used to support the inference of novel germline

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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 charge protect killer T cells from accidental death’ - was co-authored by Professor Bart Hoogenboom (London Centre

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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 A joint project with UCL Medicine and the University of Bedfordshire, it is a combination of

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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 new LIDo initiative Innovation Placement Fund. Hugo is exploring

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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 to human development and its dysfunction is associated with short-rib thoracic dysplasias

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