Group Congratulations 2015/16

Congratulations to...

Jasmine who won the prize for the best research project in the MRes in Chemical Biology, and the prize for best poster at the recent Centre for Structural Biology annual symposium at Imperial. She presented her work in collaboration with the Bubeck and Dodson labs, on characterisation and targeting of the membrane attack complex - congratulations!

 Niall and Sebastian who won the 1st and runner up prizes for their talks at the MRes Research Symposium 2016. Niall also won the Perkin Prize for top mark overall on the MRes in Drug Discovery course.

Jenny who passed her PhD viva on her thesis on chemical probes for the ubiquitin machinery. Congratulations Dr Ward! Jenny is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Target Discovery Institute at the Universty of Oxford.

Tom, who is part of the team that won a £15k award in the recent EMBRACE Sandpit on Antimicrobial Resistance Collaboration, to work on a project promoting immune clearance of infections.

Kate, who won 1st prize for her talk on novel probes for GPCRs at the recent Institute of Chemical Biology/Warwick joint CDT conference.

Manue and Julia, as their paper " N-Myristoyltransferase Inhibition Induces ER-Stress, Cell Cycle Arrest, and Apoptosis in Cancer Cells" goes online at ACS Chemial Biology (open access).

Tom who won a prize at the 2016 RSC Chemical Biology Symposium in London for his poster on novel assays for protein acyltransferases, alongside a great poster from Julia on probes for prenylation.

Roman who won a poster prize at the recent NextGenAgriChem symposium at Bayer in Frankfurt.

Rhiannon who has won a Pathways to Impact award to continue her research on delivery vehicles for the blood-brain barrier.

Louis who passed his PhD viva on his thesis on site-specific dual fluorescent labelling and single molecule dynamics of the tyrosine kinase FGFR. Congratulations Dr Perdios!

Ernie and Goska as their paper "The Rab-binding profiles of bacterial virulence factors during infection" with the Frankel lab goes online at J. Biol. Chem. (Open Access).

Goska and Remi as their paper "Global profiling of HYPE mediated AMPylation through a chemical proteomic approach" goes online at Molecular & Cellular Proteomics (Open Access).

Tom Charlton, as his paper "Quantitative Lipoproteomics in Clostridium difficile Reveals a Role for Lipoproteins in Sporulation" goes online at Chemistry & Biology (Open Access).

Remi, as his paper "Systems Analysis of Protein Fatty Acylation in Herpes Simplex Virus-Infected Cells Using Chemical Proteomics" goes online at Chemistry & Biology (Open Access).

Andy celebrates passing his PhD viva

Andy who passed his PhD viva on his thesis "N-Myristoyltransferase as a drug target: A (Chemical) Space Odyessy". Congratulations Dr Bell! Andy is continuing to develop NMT inhibitors in the Tate group.

Jessica, Wenye, Gee, Julia and Yunyun completed the Race for Life in Hyde Park, raising money for Cancer Research UK.

Jessica, Wenye, Gee, Julia and Yunyun completed the Race for Life

Scott won 1st Prize at the 2015 MaxQuant Summer School at the Max Planck Institute (Martinsreid, Germany) for his poster on targeting the KLK Activome in drug-resistant prostate cancer using chemical proteomics and systems biology.

Scott with his prize winning poster

Jenny and Louis won the 1st and 2nd prizes for their talks at the Department's annual Postgraduate Reserach Symposium, whilst Yunyun won a poster prize - congratulations!

Feny won a prize for her talk given at the 2015 joint CDT Chemical Biology Conference.

Tom has passed his PhD viva on his thesis "Chemical Proteomic Profiling to Investigate Lipoprotein Biogenesis in Clostridium difficile". Congratulations Dr Charlton! Tom is now a postdoc in the Kessler lab at the University of Oxford.

The group at the 2015 Chemical Proteomics Symposium in Oxford

The group attended the 2015 Chemical Proteomics Symposium in Oxford, sponsored by the ChemProbes COST network, with Ed, Markus and Remi giving talks and Jenny, Feny, Scott, Sharlin and Katepresenting posters.

Goska, Remi and Paulina as their paper 'Multifunctional Reagents for Quantitative Proteome-Wide Analysis of Protein Modification in Human Cells and Dynamic Profiling of Protein Lipidation During Vertebrate Development' is featured as a Hot Paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Megan, Lisa and Remi, as their paper 'Global Analysis of Protein N-Myristoylation and Exploration of N-Myristoyltransferase as a Drug Target in the Neglected Human Pathogen Leishmania donovani' is featured on the cover of the March issue of Chemistry & Biology (Open Access) and on the College Website.