Archived News Articles from 2018
- How displaceable are water molecules?
- New research by the Biggin group, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Southampton and industry
Published: 29 March 2018 - Mechanism of cationic amino acid transport revealed in new crystal structure
- New research by the Newstead group
Published: 15 February 2018 - Mediating gene activation during development
- New Research by the Klose Group - An important study; the focus of the lab over the past 4 years
Published: 5 June 2018 - A new class of ion pump inhibitors could help fight infectious fungi
- New research by the Bublitz group
Published: 3 January 2018 - Antisense transcription influences sense transcription
- New research by the Mellor and Angel groups
Published: 19 February 2018 - UNESCO/ L'Oreal Rising Talent Award won by graduate student alumna
- Dr. Areej Abuhammad who started her career working jointly in the Biochemistry & Pharmacology Departments, has won a 2018 UNESCO/L’Oreal Rising Talent Award.
Published: 19 March 2018 - Neil Brockdorff elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society
- Neil joined the Department of Biochemistry in 2008 and is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
Published: 14 May 2018 - Funding success for the Biochemistry solution-state NMR facility
- NMR spectrometer will be made available to other UK academic institutions and industry
Published: 15 May 2018 - Water-bridging as an essential component for initiating protein folding
- A recent publication has focused on investigating the roles that both water and the primary amino acid sequence have in initiating β-turn formation in solution
Published: 1 June 2018 - Public Outreach at the Department: students enjoy work placements in the Seiradake lab
- A-level students recently spent four days at our department to learn molecular biology techniques hands-on and to find out what it is like to be a biochemist
Published: 31 May 2018 - Monitoring mutation dynamics in real-time
- New Research by the Uphoff Group
Published: 26 June 2018 - Don't sweat it: Scientists identify key step in production of BO
- Findings could result in more effective deodorants
Published: July 2018 - Professor Matt Higgins and Group at Royal Society Summer Exhibition
- Human mosquito 'infects' visitors to the Royal Society exhibition with malaria
Published: 5 July 2018 - Prof Judith Armitage elected next President of The Microbiology Society
- Judith will take up the 3 year office in January 2019
Published: 12 July 2018 - A Summer of Simulations
- Three recent papers from the Sansom group reveal how molecular simulations can complement experimental studies
Published: 23 July 2018 - Patryk Ludzia wins a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship
- Patryk Ludzia, a DPhil student in Bungo Akiyoshi's group, has been awarded a prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship
Published: 24 July 2018 - Awards for the Cox lab at UK ageing conference
- Two members of Professor Lynne Cox's lab were awarded top prizes at the 68th annual scientific meeting of the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) last week
Published: 14 September 2018 - 2018 Sosei Heptares Prize for Biophysics awarded to Prof Elspeth Garman
- The 2018 Sosei Heptares Prize for Biophysics has been presented to Professor Elspeth Garman, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
Published: October 2018 - "The Bacterial World" at the Oxford Natural History Museum
- Exhibition aims to illustrate the essential role of bacteria in the development of our planet and in our current and future wellbeing
Published: 16 October 2018 - DNA repair pathway to come under further scrutiny with new funding
- Martin Cohn and his DPhil student David Lopez Martinez have secured funding to enable them to continue to explore how an important DNA damage pathway is regulated
Published: 16 October 2018 - Biochemistry Department at 'IF', the 2018 Oxford Science Festival, 12-14th October 2018
- 17 kg of jelly babies, 3,500 cocktail sticks and 6 crystal forms of chocolate showcase different aspects of the Department's work
Published: 29 October 2018 - iGem 2018 Gold Medal Award
- The 2018 Undergraduate Oxford iGEM team have just returned from Boston with a Gold medal and the award for Best Therapeutics Project along with three other award nominations
Published: 5 November 2018 - New paper shows how transcription terminates with the help of a phosphatase
- New research from Lidia Vasilieva's lab sheds light on how transcription termination in eukaryotes is controlled
Published: 5 November 2018 - A record-breaking beta barrel allows protein transport across the bacterial outer membrane
- Research has uncovered an enormous transmembrane beta barrel structure through which the proteins move
Published: 19 November 2018 - Professor Francis Barr announced as the new Head of the Department of Biochemistry
- Gavin Screaton confident that he will lead the department from strength to strength
Published: 14 December 2018
