Divisions of Structural Biology and Cancer Biology
The Institute of Cancer Research
We recently welcomed three new team members: Lucie Vyletova and Paul Hopkins join us for some time as Higher Scientific Officers. Matthew Jessop started his postdoctoral research. Welcome Lucie, Paul and Matthew!
Today we welcome our new Postdoctoral Fellow Nisha Pillay to the group. Nisha joins us from the University of Manchester, having studied the molecular determinants of PARG inhibitor sensitivity for her PhD. Welcome Nisha!
Our latest paper is out: Fragment-based screening identifies molecules targeting the substrate-binding ankyrin repeat domains of tankyrase. Thank you to our collaborators Ian Collins (ICR) and Mark Pfuhl (King’s College London)! Many congratulations to the whole team, in particular first author Katie Pollock on her PhD work! You can read about the work in this ICR press release.
PhD student Yexin Xie has been awarded a place at the EMBO Course “Practical Integrative Structural Biology”. The course takes place at EMBL Hamburg and the Centre for Structural Systems Biology. Congratulations Yexin!
Postdoctoral Fellow Michael Ranes has been awarded a place at the prestigious Pathways to Independence training programme, a joint initiative by the ICR, Sanger, MRC, and Cancer Research UK institutes and the Babraham Institute. The programme provides training for future scientific leaders. Michael has also received a £5,000 Dean’s Award to develop his independent research programme. Congratulations Michael!
Our lab is growing. We welcome Oviya Inian and William (Billy) Fisher into the lab. Oviya is a Postdoctoral Fellow who joins our telomere team. Billy joins us for a two-month summer project funded by a Lister Institute Summer Studentship.
Today we said farewell to Pete. We tried keeping him by narrowly succeeding in the escape room challenge while getting him locked in. With just over two minutes to spare in the end, we did not manage. All the best to Pete in his new adventures!
Mariola’s paper is published in Biomolecular NMR Assignments: Solution NMR assignment of the ARC4 domain of human tankyrase 2. Congratulations to Mariola and Katie! This has been the first step in an exciting collaboration with Mark Pfuhl and Ian Collins.
Great news just before Christmas: we are delighted to have been awarded a 5-year Wellcome Trust Investigator Award to study molecular mechanisms of telomere maintenance. Watch this space for new postdoc positions in Structural Biology and Telomere Biology!
PhD student Yexin has been awarded a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant to attend the 8th Brazil School for Single-Particle Cryo-EM. Many congratulations to Yexin, and many thanks to the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds!