Archived News Articles from 2010
- Why chromosomes may start to show their age
- New research by scientists in the department and at the Sanger Institute has provided definitive molecular evidence for the role of key proteins in holding together the chromosomes of mammalian eggs until the egg is ready for fertilisation
Published: 10 December 2010 - Triple departmental success in recent EMBO honours
- Three researchers in the Biochemistry department are recognised in recent awards from the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
Published: 8 December 2010 - PhD Studentships: Deadline for applications 7/01/2011
- We invite applications for PhD supported by BBSRC, MRC, EPSRC, Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, Clarendon Fund and other studentships. Training is delivered through the DPhil in Biochemistry and associated PhD Programmes in the Medical, Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences, in a state of the art multidisciplinary research environment.
Published: 7 December 2010 - Excellent teacher award for Dr Mark Wormald
- Dr Mark Wormald, a lecturer in the Biochemistry department, has received an Excellent Teacher Award from the University. He was presented with the award by the Vice-Chancellor at a ceremony at Rhodes House in October
Published: 17 November 2010 - PERLs look promising in fight against viruses
- A group of scientists in the Biochemistry department together with colleagues in Romania have discovered a novel approach to developing treatment against HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections
Published: 1 November 2010 - Micron Oxford
- Micron Oxford has been launched, seeking to understand the fundamental biological processes taking place in cells, by observing at high spatial and temporal resolution the molecular machines responsible for cellular function
Published: 1 November 2010 - Dr Lynne Cox: Early Ageing Syndrome
- Dr Lynne Cox spoke at the British Science Festival in September in a session called 'Life everlasting? the science and philosophy of ageing'
Published: 27 October 2010 - International honour for Professor Anthony Watts
- Professor Anthony Watts has been elected a fellow of the Biophysical Society, only the second non-US scientist to be awarded such an honour
Published: 15 October 2010 - 'The Biochemist' comes to Oxford
- A group of Oxford University students and young postdocs who won the chance of putting together an issue of a professional biochemistry magazine, have now had their winning entry published
Published: 5 October 2010 - I'm a Scientist 2010
- 'I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!' has found its very own kings (and queens) of the laboratory, as chosen by 5,000 school students from across the UK, and one of those, Mark Roberts, is in the Department of Biochemistry.
Published: 9 September 2010 - Crystallography One Century AD (After Dorothy)
- In the centenary year of Dorothy Hodgkin's birth, Professor Elspeth Garman from the department gave the Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture earlier this year
Published: 2 September 2010 - Something UNIQ about Biochemistry
- This Summer, the department once again opened its doors to sixth-formers taking part in the University's UNIQ summer school programme. Five hundred students from schools around the country came to Oxford for a week for a taste of what it is like to be an Oxford undergraduate
Published: 13 August 2010 - Contortions of membrane protein captured in new study
- Researchers in the Biochemistry and Physics departments have applied an old technique to a new problem to reveal detailed information about how a protein's structure changes as it carries out its function
Published: 10 August 2010 - HIV's sugar coating offers new vaccine approach
- The chains of sugar molecules, or carbohydrates, that cover the outside of the highly variable HIV virus remain constant, are different from those found on human cells, and could form the basis of a promising new approach to an AIDS vaccine, according to research led by the University of Oxford.
Published: 27 July 2010 - Shining the spotlight on DNA replication
- Researchers in the Biochemistry and Physics departments have used single-molecule imaging to show that the precise molecular details of DNA replication in the bacteria E.coli differ from how they have been portrayed in textbooks for years.
Published: 8 July 2010 - Super-strong molecular tool becomes even stronger
- Researchers in the department have engineered changes in a widely-used molecular detection and targeting tool that will enable it to be used in an even greater range of biological and clinical applications
Published: 26 May 2010 - Student Profile Video
- Jayati Jain talks about life as a first year graduate student in the Department
Published: 26 May 2010 - Signposting genes: the pull of an epigenetic signal
- Intriguing new work from researchers in the Biochemistry department along with collaborators at Harvard University has finally shed light on the function of a feature of vertebrate genomes that has eluded researchers for over 20 years
Published: 24 May 2010 - Synthetic Biology grant success
- Professor David Sherratt has been awarded a Synthetic Biology grant along with colleagues at the University of Dresden and Delft University
Published: 19 May 2010 - Getting a permanent grip on proteins
- Bijan Zakeri and Mark Howarth have exploited a recently discovered feature of amino acid chemistry in the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes to develop an improved tool for irreversibly monitoring proteins
Published: 14 May 2010 - Recent Honours for Dame Louise Johnson
- Dame Louise Johnson will be awarded an Honorary ScD degree by the University of Cambridge in June 2010.
Published: 7 May 2010 - New version of successful Coot software released
- A new paper describing the latest developments in the Coot software, from Dr Paul Emsley in the Department and colleagues, has been published in April's issue of Acta Crystallographica.
Published: 19 April 2010 - Enhancing biological mimicry in HIV vaccine design
- A group of researchers in the Biochemistry Department has shown how it might be possible to exploit a weakness in the evasive strategies of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to develop an effective vaccine against it.
Published: 19 April 2010 - Professor Raymond Dwek receives Honour from Romanian Academy
- Professor Raymond Dwek, along with Professor Baruch Blumberg and Dr Richard Lerner (Honorary members of the Department), received the Honoris causa award from the Romanian Academy of Science in Bucharest on March 23
Published: 30 March 2010 - Dr Mark Leake wins British Biophysics Award
- Biophysics researcher Dr Mark Leake has been announced as the winner of the 2010 Young Investigator Award for the British Biophysical Society
Published: 12 March 2010 - Professor Garman to give the Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture
- Scientists and the public alike will gather amongst the dinosaurs and dodo at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on March 9 at an annual lecture in honour of one of the 20th century's outstanding scientists - Dorothy Hodgkin
Published: 2 March 2010 - Study reveals the subtleties of molecular recognition in bacteria
- Professor Judith Armitage and her group in the Biochemistry Department, together with other researchers in the University, have made the first steps towards being able to identify interacting partners in signalling pathways and potentially engineer a bacterial cell that can sense and respond to novel environmental cues
Published: 11 February 2010 - Four BBSRC Vacation Studentships on offer
- The Department of Biochemistry has been selected to participate in the BBSRC Vacation Bursaries scheme as one of BBSRC's top training environments. Four placements are available this year
Published: 9 February 2010 - Winning image for Phenotype magazine
- Congratulations to Dr Fernando Martinez-Estrada, the winner of this term's 'Snapshot' research image competition run by Phenotype magazine
Published: 4 February 2010 - Biochemistry opens its door to sixth-formers again this Summer
- Budding scientists will have the opportunity this Summer to find out what studying Biochemistry in Oxford is really like, as applications open for the University-wide UNIQ summer school programme.
Published: 2 February 2010 - Cell division drama unfolds under the microscope
- It's the most dramatic step in cell division and the point of no return in this perfectly orchestrated series of events - the moment when the two sets of chromosomes are pulled apart as a single cell prepares to become two
Published: 22 January 2010
