CCB News Listing

Well done to Carla Manuela Abreu and Ramesh Kumar, both PhD students in Noel Lowndes’ lab, for their recent publication in PLoS Genetics: Site-specific phosphorylation of the DNA damage response mediator rad9 by cyclin-dependent kinases regulates activation of checkpoint kinase…

Binding specificity of the G1/S transcriptional regulators in budding yeast. Harris MR, Lee D, Farmer S, Lowndes NF, de Bruin RA. PLoS One. 2013 Apr 4;8(4):e61059. PMID: 23593391  

David Pinto has been an enthusiastic participant in a number of open source software projects during his PhD studies co-supervised by Andrew Flaus and Kevin Sullivan. One of David’s main contributions has been to the Octave language for image processing,…

  Dr. Sandra Cuffe recently won a poster prize for her poster entitled ‘Centrosome amplification as a strategy for radiosensitisation of prostate cancer’ at the Irish Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, (28th February – 1st March) Santry, Dublin.  Dr…

Well done to Corrado and colleagues for their recent paper “Cdc7-dependent and -independent phosphorylation of Claspin in the induction of the DNA replication checkpoint” in the journal Cell Cycle. Their work was chosen for the cover of this months edition. …

All three members of CCB’s Scientific Advisory Board made the headlines this week: John Diffley’s Nature paper on replication licensing http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11920.html Tom Misteli’s essay in Cell about cell biology of genomes http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2813%2900282-1 Wendy Bickmore’s review in Cell about genome architecture…

Congratulations to Prof Corrado Santocanale and to Prof Kevin Sullivan who were awarded Investigator Project Awards from Science Foundation Ireland. Corrado will continue to work on molecular mechanisms controlling DNA replication in human cells, and Kevin will study the structure…

the Lowndes lab contributes to a recent paper from Curt Wittenberg’s lab on repression of G1/S transcription. This paper has been chosen for the spotlight section of MCB, designed to highlight hot articles that are published in each issue of…

… to Dr. Elaine Dunleavy, who was recently awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship. Elaine, a former graduate of NUI Galway, will join the CCB in June this year. She will conduct her research on how gametes…

….to Tara Sugrue: the recent work of Tara, a PhD student with Noel Lowndes and Rod Ceredig (REMEDI) has been “highlighted” in the newsletter, Mesenchymal Cell News, see below.