Archived News Articles from 2017
- Molecular dynamics simulations aid functional annotation of ion channel structures
- Work carried out in Prof Mark Sansom's laboratory in collaboration with Prof Stephen Tucker at the Department of Physics in Oxford, and has been published in Structure
Published: 25 January 2017 - Prof. Alison Woollard appointed as Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research
- Professor Alison Woollard, Department of Biochemistry and Fellow of Hertford College, has been appointed as the University of Oxford's next Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research
Published: 10 February 2017 - Dr Sylvia McLain gives Royal Institution Discourse
- Dr Sylvia McLain from the Biochemistry Department, gave the Royal Institution Discourse on Friday, 24th February, with her talk: ‘Water and proteins: Insights into the physics of life’.
Published: 23 February 2017 - Understanding cerebral malaria: novel molecular insights into a sticky problem
- Why do the most debilitating cases of malaria affect the brain, leading to cerebral disease?
Published: 15 March 2017 - Wellcome Image Awards 2017
- Ezequiel Miron's image "Unravelled DNA in a human lung cell" one of the Wellcome Image Awards 2017 winners
Published: 20 March 2017 - Biochemistry at 'Back From The Dead'
- Volunteers from the Biochemistry Department have just completed a highly successful series of hands on events at the Museum of the History of Science
Published: 22 March 2017 - Novitski Prize for Jonathan Hodgkin
- Professor Jonathan Hodgkin has been awarded the prestigious Edward Novitski prize for 2017 by the Genetics Society of America
Published: 24 March 2017 - Biochemistry Department spinout uses biochemical superglue to develop next generation vaccines
- An Oxford University spinout using "biochemical superglue" which can facilitate the rapid development of robust and novel vaccines, has raised £4m at launch
Published: 30 March 2017 - How a group of conserved proteins orchestrate transcription termination in eukaryotes
- A paper published in Nature Communications sheds light on how a group of conserved proteins orchestrate transcription termination in eukaryotes
Published: 3 April 2017 - Tony Watts and Peter Judge at the Emirates Foundation
- Tony Watts and Peter Judge at the Emirates Foundation "Think Science Fair" in Dubai
Published: 28 April 2017 - Family Fun Day at the Royal Institution
- Demonstration lectures given at a "Family Fun Day", designed for under 11 year olds
Published: 15 May 2017 - Norman Heatley Award for Mark Howarth
- Professor Mark Howarth has been awarded the Norman Heatley Award 2017 from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Published: 23 May 2017 - Rita Emberton Charity Wing Walk
- Rita Emberton from our Administration team did a sponsored 'wingwalk' on Saturday 10th June, in aid of Cancer Research UK
Published: 13 June 2017 - Peter Beaconsfield Prizes for Two of Our Young Researchers
- Sarah-Beth Amos (from the Sansom group) has won the 2017 Peter Beaconsfield Prize in Physiological Sciences and Thomas Dixon (from the McLain group) has won the Runner-up prize
Published: 4 July 2017 - The final step in bacterial lipoprotein maturation
- Understanding how lipoproteins are made will pave the way to develop new antibiotics...
Published: 4 July 2017 - Checking the checkpoint: Revealing the structure of an elusive quality control enzyme
- The structure of an important enzyme that oversees the secretion of thousands of secreted glycoproteins has been solved by a fruitful collaborative effort between the Department of Biochemistry and Diamond Light Source in Oxford, and two Italian research institutes
Published: 25 July 2017 - A taste of biochemistry for school students
- 2017 Uniq week a great success
Published: 4 August 2017 - Elena Seiradake elected into 2018 EMBO Young Investigator Programme
- This prestigious programme recognises some of Europe’s best young scientists
Published: 27 October 2017 - How a group of conserved proteins orchestrate transcription termination in eukaryotes
- A paper published in Nature Communications by Lidia Vasilieva's group sheds light on how a group of conserved proteins orchestrate transcription termination in eukaryotes
Published: 3 April 2017 - Key step in cellular glycosylation revealed in new crystal structure of a Golgi nucleotide sugar transporter
- New research by the Newstead group
Published: 27 November 2017 - Oxford iGEM team wins Gold medal and Award for Best Diagnostics Project
- Returning from Boston with not only a Gold medal but also the extremely competitive award for Best Diagnostics Project in the undergraduate category
Published: 16 November 2017 - Prof Tony Watts swaps the lab bench for the back bench
- Royal Society scheme pairs scientists with parliamentarians and civil servants to explore how research can inform policy making
Published: December 2017 - Protein antibiotic hijacks iron transporter to kill bacterial cells
- Colin Kleanthous' lab has shown for the first time how a toxin released by bacteria delivers its toxic payload into cells.
Published: 1 November 2017 - Two arms secure gene transcription at the right sites
- New findings that shed light on how epigenetic components in mammals shape transcription have been published by the Klose group
Published: 11 September 2017
