Archived News Articles from 2015
- Dr Angelika Feldmann awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Dr Angelika Feldmann has been awarded a prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, a unique opportunity for promising newly qualified postdoctoral researchers to make an early start in developing their independent research careers
Published: 7 December 2015 - 2016 American Crystallographic Association Fankuchen Award for Elspeth Garman
- Elspeth Garman has been awarded the 2016 American Crystallographic Association Fankuchen Award, to recognize her contributions to crystallographic teaching and research
Published: 20 November 2015 - Lidia Vasilieva is awarded the Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal
- Dr. Lidia Vasilieva has been awarded the 2016 Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal by the British Society for Cell Biology for her work investigating the molecular mechanisms that underpin regulation of gene expression and their role in controlling cellular responses
Published: 17 November 2015 - Medical Sciences Division, 2015 Teaching Awards
- Biochemistry lecturers have been recognised in the recent MSD Teaching Awards, acknowledging excellence in teaching, the organisation and development of teaching, and support for teaching and learning, within a research-intensive environment
Published: 11 November 2015 - Micron wins award for next phase in its development
- Micron, the advanced bio-imaging facility centered in the department, has been awarded a renewal of its Strategic Award from the Wellcome Trust to continue its state-of-the-art collaborative activities until at least 2020
Published: 20 October 2015 - Department Awarded Athena SWAN Silver Status
- We are delighted to announce that the Department of Biochemistry has been granted an Athena SWAN Silver Award in the October 2015 round.
Published: 8 October 2015 - iGem Gold Medal Award
- The Oxford iGem team achieved a GOLD MEDAL award again this year, only the second time Oxford has competed in the iGem Competition.
Published: 29 September 2015 - Daniel Yin Shortlisted in Science Writing Award
- Daniel Yin, a student in Prof Tony Watts' laboratory is one of 14 shortlisted entrants for this year's prestigious Max Perutz Science Writing Award
Published: 15 September 2015 - New Independent Research Fellowship competition launched
- Find out more about this new competition for outstanding early career researchers
Published: 13 August 2015 - Departmental researchers win Investigator Awards
- Ben Berks and Kim Nasmyth have been awarded Investigator Awards from the Wellcome Trust in the recent funding round
Published: 13 August 2015 - DPhil student voted school pupils' top scientist
- Jonny Brookes-Bartlett has won the 'I'm A Scientist Get Me Out Of Here' science outreach competition.
Published: 7 August 2015 - Elspeth Garman awarded prestigious Guest Professorship in Hamburg
- Elspeth Garman has been awarded the 2015 Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship at the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging and the University of Hamburg
Published: 22 July 2015 - Higgins lab impresses the crowds at the Harwell Open Day
- Fluffy microbes and a cartoon movie of red blood cells drew in the crowds to Matt Higgins' stand at the Harwell Open Day last week
Published: 17 July 2015 - A new home for membrane proteins
- A new database that will help researchers understand the structure of proteins in a membrane is announced in the journal Structure
Published: 16 July 2015 - Grant funding success for the McLain Group
- Dr Sylvia McLain has won a grant from The Leverhulme Trust to explore protein folding at the atomic scale
Published: 9 July 2015 - Breaching HIV's defences
- New research from Max Crispin and colleagues has confirmed a potential Achilles' heel in HIV that could be exploited for vaccine design against AIDS
Published: 8 July 2015 - The alphabetical world of crystal structures
- Mark Howarth's new protein alphabet takes an unusual slant on the shapes of proteins
Published: 30 June 2015 - All change for bacterial outer membrane proteins
- The discovery of how a group of bacteria can rapidly adapt to changing growth conditions could have implications for future antibiotic development
Published: 11 June 2015 - Molecular details of centriole assembly emerge from new research
- A new paper in eLife, from John Vakonakis and colleagues, sheds light on an essential component of centriole assembly
Published: 8 June 2015 - Former Biochemistry student wins top CRUK prize
- Anca Farcas, former DPhil student with Rob Klose, is the joint winner of CRUK's 2014 Pontecorvo Prize
Published: 28 May 2015 - Graduate Poster Symposium and student highlights
- Final year DPhil students celebrated their achievements at the recent departmental Graduate Poster Symposium
Published: 26 May 2015 - Malaria researchers selected for prizes at international meeting
- Biochemistry researchers featured prominently at the recent EMBO Conference on the Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite in Heidelberg
Published: 19 May 2015 - Armitage lab work features in Oxford museum exhibition
- The Museum of Natural History is showcasing work from Professor Judy Armitage's lab in a new contemporary science exhibition
Published: 12 May 2015 - Prizes recognise talents of two Biochemistry researchers
- Excellence at both the senior and junior level has been recognised by two recent prizes to researchers in the department
Published: 7 May 2015 - Catch Biochemistry researchers down the pub!
- Come and hear Alison Woollard and DPhil student Karolina Chocian speaking at one of the 'Pint of Science' events in Oxford on 18 May
Published: 23 April 2015 - Lynne Cox at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
- Lynne Cox was one of the experts at a panel discussion on ageing at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
Published: 15 April 2015 - Simon Newstead wins BCA Award
- Associate Professor Simon Newstead has won an early career prize from the British Crystallographic Association (BCA)
Published: 10 April 2015 - Latest Publications
- Read about some of the latest publications to come from the Department
Published: 1 April 2015 - Bungo Akiyoshi follows one recent award with another
- Bungo Akiyoshi has been awarded the 2016 'Early Career Research Award: Cells' from the Biochemical Society
Published: 1 April 2015 - Graduate student shortlisted in British Library writing competition
- Graduate student Hannah Ralph was one of the shortlisted entrants for an international public engagement writing competition
Published: 30 March 2015 - Young Investigator Award for Bungo Akiyoshi
- The American Association of Anatomists has awarded Bungo Akiyoshi the R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology
Published: 23 March 2015 - Key role for newly identified sensor protein in DNA repair
- Researchers in the department have identified a sensor protein for a specific type of DNA damage in the cell. Martin Cohn's lab, in collaboration with colleagues at Harvard Medical School, describe the findings in a recent paper in Cell Reports
Published: 20 March 2015 - Biochemistry researchers share their work with the public in crystallography's centenary year
- X-ray crystallography has never had so prominent a place in the world. The illustrious history of the field and its discoveries were celebrated by numerous events across the UK and elsewhere during 2014.
Published: 13 March 2015 - Garman lab's contribution to special journal issue
- Elspeth Garman has helped to edit a special issue of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, which also features research from her lab
Published: 6 March 2015 - Oxford Biochemistry postgrad participates in summit in Singapore
- Ronja Woloszczuk, a DPhil student with Jane Mellor, was selected to participate in the recent Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore
Published: 5 March 2015 - Complete picture of flu virus envelope revealed
- Researchers in the Biochemistry department have built a model of the intact influenza A virus outer envelope for the first time
Published: 27 February 2015 - Biochemistry researchers make an impact at top biophysics meeting
- Members of the department have returned from the Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore with numerous recognitions for their work
Published: 19 February 2015 - Peptide transporters yield gating secrets in a new study
- A systematic study of a major family of membrane transporters has provided new insights into how they carry out their function is published in structure
Published: 18 February 2015 - Alison Woollard wins Genetics Society award
- Congratulations to Professor Alison Woollard who has been awarded the 2015 JBS Haldane Lecture by the Genetics Society
Published: 11 February 2015 - Dr Sylvia McLain featured in 'International Innovation'
- Dr Sylvia McLain is one of the women scientists featured in the latest issue of the science and technology magazine 'International Innovation'.
Published: 3 February 2015 - Dynamic behaviour of bacterial injectisome component visualised in new study
- Research in the department has shed light on a machinery that causes virulence in a group of pathogenic bacteria
Published: 29 January 2015 - London art exhibition features cell cycle research from the Nasmyth lab
- A new exhibition at Central Saint Martins will illuminate the hidden world of mitosis being revealed by the cross-European MitoSys project
Published: 21 January 2015 - Department wins prestigious BBSRC strategic grant for cell cycle work
- Biochemistry researchers Bela Novak and Francis Barr, together with colleagues in Oxford, London and the University of Sussex, have won £3m for a BBSRC Strategic LoLa grant.
Published: 14 January 2015 - Peptide transport: two transporters for the price of one
- Two new studies reveal how a family of peptide transporters is able to transport thousands of different peptides into cells
Published: 13 January 2015 - Latest Publications
- Read about some of the latest publications to come from the Department.
Published: 8 January 2015 - ABC Radio National highlights department's antiviral work
- 'The Science Show' on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National recently featured an interview with Raymond Dwek at the Glycobiology Institute.
Published: 7 January 2015
