Great fun writing about this exciting work from Rachel Klevit’s lab.
HHARI in motion reveals an unexpected substrate recognition site for RBR ligases!
Congratulations Ibtehal
Ibtehal presented her PhD project at the Three Minute Thesis final and won the Peoples’s Choice Award!
Graduation
Finally! After a long wait due to the pandemic Wei and Irene receive their PhD certificates at our graduation ceremony. Congrats again to Dr. Pinzuti and Dr. Song!
N4BP1 utilises a novel mechanism for interaction with linear ubiquitin.
Our work about N4BP1 and M1-linked ubiquitin is now on bioRxiv:
Welcome Ibtehal!
Doctor Ibtehal Albursan from Jordan has joined the lab. She decided to swap the stethoscope for a lab coat and do a PhD on the role of the ubiquitin system in bacterial infection. Ibtehal is supported by the Islamic Development Bank.
Welcome Deepa!
Deepa Bajantri has joined us from India to work on the regulation of ubiquitin chain formation. She is supported by a National Overseas Scholarship and finally arrived in London after a year long wait due to various lockdowns.
Dr. Wei Song!
Congratulations to Wei, who just passed his viva!
New paper about ubiquitin activation in Plasmodium
Welcome Anna!
Na (Anna) Liu has joint the lab as a CSC fellow. Her PhD project focuses on bacterial ubiquitin ligases.
PhD positions available
We have three fully funded PhD positions available to study the structural biology of molecular machines in microbial infection. Application deadline: 31. January 2020
More information here.