News: 2011
Wednesday, 14 December, 2011 - 10:15
Angus Lamond, winner of the 2011 Novartis Medal will deliver his Prize Lecture at the Biochemical Society Centenary Celebration at the Royal Society in London on Friday 16 December 2011. Professor Lamond’s talk entitled "Super Experiments and the...
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 - 09:55
The 3rd visit of the GRE International Scientific Advisory Board was held on Thursday and Friday 3-4 November 2011. This year four ISAB members visited the Centre; Frank Grosveld, Nick Hastie, Tim Hunt...
Wednesday, 9 November, 2011 - 14:35
The College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee opens its doors to the public
On 12th November, as part of the Dundee Science Festival, researchers at the University of Dundee’s College of Life Sciences are inviting members of the public to find out more about some of the...
Monday, 7 November, 2011 - 15:45
On Friday the 4th of November the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression held it's third annual Symposium. The venue on this occasion was Guthrie Castle and the day of talks and poster sessions was followed by a dinner and Ceilidh...
Friday, 28 October, 2011 - 08:50
Professor Julian Blow, who works in the Welcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression at the University of Dundee College of Life Sciences, has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award. These highly prestigious grants are given by the ...
Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 - 11:50
Congratulations to Sarah Bajan Gyorgy Hutvagner's lab who successfully passed her PhD viva on the 16th of September. The title of her thesis was "The function of the ribosomal...
Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 - 10:05
Shared Imagination: Art and Science Collaborations in Dundee
On Thursday 6th October 2011, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Wellcome Trust, the Wellcome...
Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 - 09:10
This year’s GRE symposium will be held at Guthrie Castle, near Forfar (www.guthriecastle.com).
As in the previous years, the symposium will...
Friday, 7 October, 2011 - 14:45
Congratulations to Andrew Melvin from Sonia Rocha's Lab who successfully passed his PhD. viva on Thursday the 6th of October. The Title of his thesis was "The role of the chromatin...
Friday, 7 October, 2011 - 12:55
Congratulations to Eshan Pourkarimi from Anton Gartner's Lab who successfully passed his PhD. viva on Thursday the 29th of September. His thesis title was: "Evidence that CED...
Monday, 26 September, 2011 - 15:35
With both Daniel Ryan and Andrew Bowman leaving some serious socialising was in order. Daniel blew everyone away with his leaving gift and the Homebrew Ninja came out of the closet at Andy’s leaving party! Meanwhile at an international...
Friday, 23 September, 2011 - 17:00
Professor Mike Stark of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Biology.
The Society of Biology aims to provide a single unified voice for biology by advising Government and influencing policy, advancing education and professional development and engaging and...
Friday, 16 September, 2011 - 17:35
Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression at the College of Life Sciences have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how human cells express genes important for cell growth and multiplication.
Dr Joost...
Friday, 9 September, 2011 - 08:55
The University of Dundee ranks 1st in the UK and is one of the top 25 Universities in the world for Biological Sciences (by citations) according to the QS World University Rankings.*
The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings...
Friday, 2 September, 2011 - 16:30
Aridhia Informatics Ltd and Glencoe Software have formed a strategic partnership to create innovative products to aid the development of personalised therapies and deliver improved patient outcomes.
Anticipating an increased...
Thursday, 25 August, 2011 - 13:10
A collaboration between the labs of Angus Lamond, Anton Gartner, and Ron Hay at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression and Sarah Coulthurst of the Division of Molecular Microbiology at...
Thursday, 25 August, 2011 - 13:05
A previous GRE Honours Project student from the Stark Lab has been shortlisted for the 2011 European Science Engineering and Technology Student of the Year Award. Katarzyna (Kasia)...
Wednesday, 17 August, 2011 - 15:50
Sebastian Greiss, a postdoctoral researcher formerly at the Gartner Lab at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression has been receiving international press coverage as part of the Cambridge team that has re-engineered the nematode worm...
Wednesday, 17 August, 2011 - 10:55
Elizabeth Bayne the most recently appointed Principal Investigator at GRE has been selected as one of nine young investigators from across Europe to join the EpiGeneSys Network of Excellence, an ambitious new EC-funded research initiative which aims to bring together the two thriving fields of...
Tuesday, 2 August, 2011 - 12:00
Sonia Rocha was awarded the Paper of the Year award for 2011, for the Biochemical Journal Gene Environment for her publication entitled: " Regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha...
Monday, 5 December, 2011 - 10:35
Dundee Cell Products Ltd (DCP), a spin-out company from the University of Dundee, has attracted two new grants to support its product development and commercialisation activities.
DCP is a...
Tuesday, 15 March, 2011 - 15:40
On the 12th of March, Sara ten Have, Kelly Hodge and Dalila Bensaddek (Lamond Lab) all participated in Sensational Women in Science a public outreach programme at Dundee Science Centre in which scientists from the Centre got together to educate kids and adults about what proteins are, what they do and how we measure them.
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Monday, 28 March, 2011 - 16:20
Professor Jason Swedlow, member of The Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression in the College of Life Sciences and his software development team, were named “Innovator of the Year 2011” for their work on the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) - a revolutionary venture into open source software.
The ethos of...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:50
Congratulations to Professor Julian Blow: Two new Blow Lab papers examine different aspects of DNA replication
A recent paper by the Blow lab examines how replication origins are licensed for use prior to entry into S phase. In Gambus, A., Khoudoli, G.A., Jones, R.C., and Blow, J.J. (2011) "MCM2-7 form double...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:50
Salma Mahmoud from Tom Owen-Hughes lab successfully passed her PhD viva on Monday 21st February 2011. Salma's title was "Investigating the mechanisms of action of the Snf2-homolog protein Fun30". She presented her research at 1030 hrs. Her internal examiner was Professor Mike Stark and...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:50
Congratulations to Ron Hay, the recipient of the 2012 Novartis Medal and Prize. This is the third consecutive year that the Novartis Prize has been awarded to a CLS scientist and the second consecutive year it has been won by PIs at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression. Angus Lamond was the recipient of the prize for...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:45
The Wellcome Image Awards 2011 were announced at a ceremony at the Wellcome Collection in London on Wednesday, 23rd February 2011. The 21 winning images are the most visually striking, technically excellent and informative images that have been acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past sixteen months. Among the 21 winning...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:45
Research paper: The ndc80 loop region facilitates formation of kinetochore attachment to the dynamic microtubule plus end
Tanaka Lab paper provides insight into essential KT-MT mechanism
The mechanism for the conversion of kinetochore-microtubule KT-MT interactions from lateral to end-on...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:45
Research paper: Chaperone Proteins may influence the transmission of non-genetic information across generations
Traditionally chaperones have acted to ensure that social boundaries are not broken. The term is also used at a molecular level in reference to chaperone proteins that regulate the interactions of their cargo...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:45
The GRE Symposium 2011 will be held on Friday 4th November 2011.
Please note this date in your diary.
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:45
The 2011 GRE PI retreats will be held on Friday 3rd June and Friday 9th December 2011.
Please note these dates in your diary.
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:40
Rocha Lab Research Paper: "Mechanism of hypoxia-induced NFÿB"
A recent paper in Cell Cycle, co-authored by GRE PI Sonia Rocha, "Mechanism of hypoxia-induced NFÿB" define a novel pathway regulating NF-kappaB activation.
(Authors: Andrew Melvin, Sharon Mudie and Sonia Rocha) volume 10, issue...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:35
The Wellcome Trust centre for Gene Regulation and Expression at the College of Life Sciences hosted Professor Mike Stratton of the Sanger Institute on Monday 17 January 2011.
Mike Stratton is Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, where he is joint head of the Cancer Genome Project, which aims to elucidate the genetic causes...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:35
Andrew Bowman from Tom Owen-Hughes lab successfully passed his PhD viva today, Friday 7th January 2011. Andrew's title was "Characterisation of the (H3-H4) 2-tetramer and its interaction with histone chaperones". He presented his research at 1030 hrs. His internal examiner was Professor Ron Hay and his external examiner was...
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 - 11:35
Congratulations to Professor Ron Laskey one of the members of the GRE International Scientific Advisory Board who was recognized in the Queen's New Year's Honours list announced on 31 December 2010.
Professor Ronald Laskey, FRS, FMedSci, was made a CBE for services to science. He holds the Charles Darwin Chair...
Wednesday, 16 March, 2011 - 11:35
Congratulations to Professor Julian Blow: Two new Blow Lab papers examine different aspects of DNA replication
A recent paper by the Blow lab examines how replication origins are licensed for use prior to entry into S phase. In Gambus, A., Khoudoli, G.A., Jones, R.C., and Blow, J.J. (2011) "MCM2-7 form double...
Monday, 28 February, 2011 - 09:45
Congratulations to Professor Ron Hay, the recipient of the 2012 Novartis Medal and Prize. This is the third consecutive year that the Novartis Prize has been awarded to a CLS scientist; Angus Lamond was the recipient of the prize for 2011 and Grahame Hardie in 2010. Previous winners of the Prize from the College of Life Sciences also include...
Thursday, 24 February, 2011 - 11:45
The Wellcome Image Awards 2011 were announced at a ceremony at the Wellcome Collection in London on Wednesday, 23rd February 2011. The 21 winning images are the most visually striking, technically excellent and informative images that have been acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past sixteen months. Among the 21 winning...
Thursday, 6 October, 2011 - 10:35
Michael Johnston from Gyorgy Hutvagner's laboratory, successfully passed his PhD viva 21 October 2010. Michael's thesis title was "Characterisation of Argonaute Interacting...