Oct 2011: Alex's poster presentations earn him prizes.
Alex won the poster prize at the 2nd International Fungal Cell Wall Meeting in Giens (France). His poster and presentation led to a cash prize and excellent French wine among the 35 presenters. Alex was surrounded by attendees (left) and Jean-Paul Latgé, the organiser of the meeting, presented his prize to him (right).
On top of that, only two weeks later his poster was among the five finalists at the 3rd year PhD students poster presentation at the College of Life Sciences. Well done, Alex!
Feb 2011: Daan wins RSC Dextra medal
Daan has been awarded the 2011 RSC Dextra medal together Stuart Haslam (right, together with Rob Field, middle) from Imperial College. Both received the silver medal and a cash prize and Daan was invited to give a talk at the Royal Society of Chemistry meeting from 15th-16th September 2011. Find more information in the press release.
Jan 2011: The lab sets up a spin-out company
GlycoBioChem, providing research tools for the O-GlcNAc and fungal cell wall research community
Dec 2010: Marianne passes her PhD viva!
After 2 hours of examination by Gerry Hart & Mike Ferguson, Marianne has made it to scientific adulthood and is now Dr. Schimpl. Congratulations!
Nov 2011: DVA provides cover for latest Chemistry & Biology issue.
The article
Oct 2010: Research Deal with Aquapharm
Our group and Aquafarm Biodiscovery are going to work together to identify substances from marine organisms that can lead to new drugs targeting Alzheimer's disease. Read more about it on BBC News.
Jun 2010: Awarded Fellowships
Congratulations to our postdoc Helge Dorfmueller and to our former PhD student Elton Zeqiraj who have both been awarded a highly prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Jun 2010: New Post Doc
Kaoru Sakabe has joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. She has graduated in December 2009 from Prof. Gerald W. Hart at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, US.