2016

Congratulations to Dr. Mike Barber


Congratulations to Mike, who successfully defended his thesis today! His examiners were Prof. Mark Wormald from Oxford’s Department of Biochemistry and Prof. Louise Serpell from the University of Sussex.

We wish Dr. Barber best of luck in his future endeavours!

Congratulations to Dr. Iva Pritisanac

Congratulations to Iva, who successfully defended his thesis today! Her examiners were Prof. Christina Redfield from Oxford’s Department of Biochemistry and Prof. Guy Lippens from the University of Toulouse.

We wish Dr. Pritisanac best of luck in his future endeavours!

Olga and Henrik attend the 2016 ICMRBS



Olga and Henrik will both be in Kyoto, Japan, for this year’s International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems. Olya will be giving a talk in the session on Biomolecular Interactions and Henrik will be presenting a poster. Congratulations!

UCSF award from Oxford Innovations


The lab has been awarded a University Challenge Seed Fund (UCSF) award from Oxford University Innovation.

Congratulations!

Mike submitted his PhD thesis


Congratulations to Mike for writing and submitting his PhD thesis!

Tim awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship


Tim has been awarded the prestigious Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust! This 5-year fellowship will enable Tim to start his own group in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, and continue his research on membraneless organelles.

Read more about Tim’s appointment in Biochemistry here and more about the Sir Henry Dale Fellowship here

Well done, Tim, and congratulations!

Gogs' part II thesis is published and featured on the front cover


Congratulations to Gogs for the publication of his part II thesis in Chemical Communications! Read the article here and check out the inside front cover art above.

Membraneless organelles and nucleic acids paper published



Tim’s paper on the melting of nucleic acid duplexes by membraneless organelles has been published in Nature Chemistry. Read the associated News and Views article here and an Editors’ Choice article in Science here. Congrats, Tim!

Andy gives a talk at the Astbury Centre



Andy gave a talk at the 2016 Astbury Conversation held at the Astbury Centre at the University of Leeds, alongside other speakers including Prof. Lewis Kay and Nobel laureate Prof. Michael Levitt.

Congrats, Andy!

Talks for Iva and Andy



Iva and Andy both gave talks at an NMR Symposium sponsored by ZoBio that was held in Leiden, the Netherlands, alongside other speakers including Prof. Peter Güntert, Prof. Alexandre Bonvin, Prof. Vladislav Orekhov, and Prof. Geerten Vuister. Congratulations!

Prize for Andy



Andy has been awarded the 2016 BRSG-NMRDG award for ‘excellence in magnetic resonance’. Congrats, Andy!

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F1000


Our recent paper on membrane less organelles has been selected as recommended by the F1000.

David Dias

David Dias is joining the group as a postdoctoral researcher. David joins us coming over from Cambridge.