Professor Uri Frank from the Centre for Chromosome Biology at NUI Galway has received an Investigator Award through the SFI-HRB-Wellcome Partnership, for his research into the ‘Mechanisms that induce dedifferentiation to drive regeneration in the absence of stem cells.’ The…
Congratulations to Uri Frank on his recently awarded Wellcome Trust Investigator award. Uri is now the fourth CCB PI to receive funding from the Wellcome Trust (Brian McStay, Ciaran Morrison and Elaine Dunleavy the others).
Nobel laureate Paul Modrich pictured in front of the Biomedical Sciences building with Bob and Noel.
1-2pm Friday, 11 May, 2018 Institute for Lifecourse and Society (ILAS) lecture theatre Speaker: Professor Paul Modrich, co-awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Also James B. Duke professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University’s School of Medicine, and Investigator,…
Congratulations to the Lowndes group for their recent publication in Oncotarget: Recruitment of lysine demethylase 2A to DNA double strand breaks and its interaction with 53BP1 ensures genome stability- Murilo T.D. Bueno*, Marta Baldascini,*, Stéphane Richard and Noel F. Lowndes.
A collaboration between a number of Galway-based Labs including the Lowndes group has led to a publication in Immunol Cell Biol: Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of human intermediate monocytes based on HLA-DR expression. Connaughton EP, Naicker S, Hanley SA, Slevin SM, Eykelenboom JK, Lowndes NF, O’Brien…
Congratulations to the Nasheuer lab whose manuscript entitled “Optimizing Fluorescent Protein Expression for Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy Using HSV Thymidine Kinase Promoter Sequences” was accepted today (April 5th) for publication in FEBS Open Bio.
Congratulations to Yetunde Adesanya Ogungbenro and other members of the Morrison lab on the publication of their paper, ‘Centrobin controls primary ciliogenesis in vertebrates’, in the Journal of Cell Biology. http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2018/02/12/jcb.201706095
Congratulations to CCB PhD student Eoin Murphy who was co-winner of the HEA’s “Making an Impact” student research competition. Eoin was one of five national finalists. His winning talk, “Catching a runaway train: the battle against Huntington’s disease,” was presented…
Good news for the Morrison lab who recently received a Seed Award in Science under the SFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Partnership to explore links between primary cilia and cellular senescence.
