Christos Velanis (PDRA) was invited this month by GARNet Community Postcast to discuss the paper published in PloS Genetics "The domesticated transposase ALP2 mediates formation of a novel Polycomb protein complex by direct interaction with MSI1, a core subunit of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2)".
News and updates from the lab.
July 2020
June 2020
A collaboration between Justin Goodrich’s and Caroline Dean’s research groups was published this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with the title “The Arabidopsis epigenetic regulator ICU11 as an accessory protein of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2”. The ICU11 protein is a putative histone H3K36me3 demethylase which we found to co-purify with Polycomb proteins in our proteomic analyses.
Hannah Martin who did her honours project ‘Investigating the novel function of domesticated transposons in Arabidopsis gene regulation in our group received the Biochemistry Research Project Prize. Many congratulations!
March 2020
Yen-Ting Lu who was not able to travel to Edinburgh from Taiwan due to lockdown, had her PhD viva remotely. Liam Dolan (Oxford University) and David Finnegan (Edinburgh University) were her examiners. She passed! Congratulations Yen-Ting, well done. Yen-Ting will soon start her post-doc working with Keiji Nakajima in Nara, Japan on RKD genes in Marchantia.
December 2019
We held a Bryophyte UK meeting at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
The meeting organisers Laura Forrest, Justin Goodrich and Erica de Leau invited young as well as senior national and international researchers from the UK, France and Japan to this one-day event. Keynote speakers were Takayuki Kohchi (Kyoto University, Japan), Pierre-Marc Delaux (Paul Sabatier University, France) and Susana Suaret-Guato (Cambridge University, UK).The meeting was supported by the Genetics Society UK and the Company of Biologists.
June 2019
For our lab outing, we took the boat to the Farne Islands to see seals, puffins and other birds which was a fantastic trip.
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