Archived News Articles from 2020
- How do cells count cell divisions?
- A new paper entitled "A Single Light-Responsive Sizer Can Control Multiple-Fission Cycles in Chlamydomonas", by Stefan Heldt, Béla Novák and their coauthors John Tyson (Virginia Tech) and Fred Cross (Rockefeller Univ), is published in Current Biology
Published: January 2020 - Building a brain: identification of a protein complex that attracts or repels nerve cells during development
- New paper by the Seiradake Group working together with the teams at the University in Toulouse, and the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Germany, published in Cell this month
Published: 21 January 2020 - Michal Gdula from Brockdorff Lab awarded £800k to set up his own lab
- Michal is setting up his own lab to study developmental epigenetics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and is looking currently for two postdocs and a research assistant
Published: 28th February 2020 - How is DNA compacted >1000-fold lengthwise to form a chromosome?
- Jarno Mäkelä and David Sherratt show how the chromosome is organized within a bacterial cell in a paper published in Molecular Cell this February (DOI:10.1016/j.molcel.2020.02.003).
Published: 2 March 2020 - Professor Kim Nasmyth honoured with Centenary Award
- Professor Kim Nasmyth honoured with the prestigious Centenary Award 2021 from the Biochemical Society
Published: 24 March 2020 - Professor Anthony Watts awarded the First Avanti Polar Lipids-IUPAB Medal and Prize, 2020
- Professor Anthony Watts awarded the IUPAB-Avanti prize for his pioneering contributions to biophysics and especially the development of solid state NMR for membrane biology
Published: 22 April 2020 - Professor Ben Berks elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- Ben Berks is one of 51 scientists elected to the Royal Society this year.
Published: 29 April 2020 - Jim Mellon £1m donation to support Longevity Science
- We are delighted to announce that Jim Mellon (1975, PPE), British investor and philanthropist, has gifted £1 million to Oriel College support and advance the study of Longevity Science at Oxford
Published: 15 May 2020 - Accelerating drug-discovery against COVID-19
- Scientists in Oxford have joined forces with groups world-wide to accelerate the discovery of new drugs to combat COVID-19
Published: 1 July 2020 - Human DNA repair proteins discovered by the Cohn group
- Students in the Cohn group have discovered a large DNA repair protein complex functioning in the Fanconi Anemia pathway, reported in their new paper in Cell Reports
Published: 1 July 2020 - Molecular mimicry by the malaria parasite helps it pretend to be human to avoid immune clearance
- New study shows that the parasite that causes the most-deadly form of human malaria pretends to be human
Published: 13 July 2020 - What links a gruesome bacterial illness and the universal protein translocon?
- How do inhibitors of the Sec translocon work? A chance meeting in Ghana was the start of a collaboration to answer this fascinating question
Published: 14 July 2020 - Stephan Uphoff awarded 2020 Lister Prize
- Dr Stephan Uphoff recognised for his highly innovative research programme in DNA repair
Published: 9 August 2020 - Elspeth Garman wins Suffrage Science award for women in STEM
- Elspeth Garman to be honoured at the sixth Suffrage Science awards celebration for women working in the Life Sciences
Published: 14 August 2020 - Biochemistry undergraduates win prizes in Biochemical Society competition
- Congratulations to Lauryn McLean-Deaville and Shakira Mahadeva on being awarded prizes in the Biochemical Society’s annual Science Communication Competition
Published: 2 September 2020 - A multi-plug socket for building vaccines
- The Howarth group have been working to increase the range of proteins that can be successfully displayed on virus-like particles (VLP)
Published: 31 August 2020 - 2021 Genetics Society Medal for Professor David Sherratt
- Professor David Sherratt has been selected by the Genetics Society to be awarded the 2021 Genetics Society Medal
Published: 9 September 2020 - New COVID vaccine trial
- The Serum Institute of India and SpyBiotech have announced clinical trial testing of a new vaccine candidate against COVID-19
Published: 11 September 2020 - A BBSRC sLola-funded program to understand how shape-shifting proteins control cell division
- An ambitious project aiming to decipher the function of intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) has won funding from the BBSRC
Published: 2 October 2020 - Prize winners of the Postgraduate Symposium 2020
- Michaelmas Term Postgraduate Symposium 2020, held remotely, showcases passion commitment and high quality research
Published: 2 November 2020 - Early Career Researcher UK Awards 2020
- Dr. Yasunori Watanabe wins the 2020 Scopus Early Career Researcher Award in Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology
Published: 17 November 2020 - Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 and zoonotic coronavirus threats by mosaic nanoparticle vaccination
- Hung-Jen Wu in the Howarth lab has collaborated on rapid vaccine assembly with Pamela Bjorkman's lab at Caltech
Published: 8 December 2020 - Keep cool, it might just reset your circadian rhythm
- Severe cooling compacts chromatin, changes the subcellular transcriptomes and resets the circadian clock
Published: 30 November 2020 - Alumna of the Department as head of the Vaccines Task Force
- Biochemistry Alumna produces a report for the UK Government on developing, securing and increasing access vaccines for the UK and internationally, and building UK vaccine capability
Published: 14 December 2020
