We are organising the next London Structural Biology Club Meeting.

Join us at the LSBC Spring meeting which will be held on Wednesday, 2nd April from 15:00-17:00 in in the Clark Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary Innovation Centre, 5 Walden Street, London. The Queen Mary Innovation Centre is just a 5 min walk from Whitechapel tube station (https://maps.app.goo.gl/VXsuw6n122q66xS2A ; entrance via Walden Street).

Programme

“CryoEM structure of a foamy virus illuminates retrovirus evolution”

  • Jonasz Patkowski, Imperial College London (Costa Lab): 

“How to steal a bacteriophage tail? The first structural insight into capsid-forming phage-inducible chromosomal islands”

“Structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals mechanism for flagellin incorporation”

  • Vlad Pena, The Institute of Cancer Research:

“Catalytic activation of the spliceosome by the helicase Aquarius and four cofactors”

From 17:00: Networking session with refreshments.

The event is free and everyone is welcome.  Please register via Eventbrite if you wish to attend so we can know numbers for catering.

PhD Opportunity: Ubiquitin Pathways in Immunity

A PhD project about ubiquitin conjugation pathways in immunity and inflammation is available for CSC funded students from China. More details can be found here. Please get in touch if you would like to know more about this opportunity. The application deadline is 29th January 2025.

Two PhD projects are available in our lab for students from China:

Project 1: Understanding the mechanism of ubiquitin ligases in host-pathogen interactions

Project 2: Exploring the ubiquitin system in innate immunity

Both projects will be funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council.

Applicants must be:

– Chinese students with a strong academic background.

– Students holding a PR Chinese passport.

– Either be resident in China at the time of application or studying overseas.

We are hiring! An MRC funded Postdoc position is available.

If you are interested to work on the structural biology of the ubiquitin system and like to join our team here at QMUL in London, then please apply using the following link: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD602/postdoctoral-research-associate-in-structural-biochemistry. Feel free to get in touch to hear more about the project: b.stieglitz@qmul.ac.uk