Born #OnThisDay in 1903 was Kathleen Lonsdale FRS. She was a pioneer of X-ray crystallography, discovering the structure of benzene, and was one of the first two women elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Find out more about her life and work: #WomenInSTEM www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwcf...

Could targeting the gut's immune system tackle the early stages of Parkinson's? 🧠 A new study from @soyonhonglab.bsky.social & Tim Bartels (UK DRI at UCL) has revealed how Parkinson’s spreads from the gut to the brain - with the help of immune cells. Read more 👉 www.ukdri.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

CRN Teams Harper & Alessi used cryo-electron tomography to show how PINK1-activating stress disrupts mitochondrial structure, revealing protein aggregation, cristae loss, and key changes linked to #Parkinsons 🧬 🔗 Read the full #preprint: bit.ly/49N4mmW ✏️ @denkenny.bsky.social

As part of our #20thBirthday celebrations, we hear from our cofounders Sir Mike Ferguson and Alan Fairlamb #ScienceNeverStops www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Skb...

Best of luck today to Rebecca Pemberton of the Swamy lab, defending her PhD thesis 'Investigating the role of Crohn's disease associated kinase LRRK2 in immune and intestinal cells' @mahimaswamy.bsky.social @ajmhowden.bsky.social @bealelab.bsky.social @henrymcsorley.bsky.social

Join us! Postdoctoral Research Assistant position available in the Muqit lab www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr... #neurobiology #CRISPR #PINK1 #Parkinsons

Best of luck today to Iona Wallace of the Swatek lab, defending her PhD thesis 'Mechanistic and Proteomic Exploration of the ISG15 Modification Pathway'

How do you deal with missing values and "unique" proteins that were only identified in one condition in proteomics data? Mengchun Li, an amazing PhD student in my lab, developed this great Bayesian approach. Please try it and give feedback! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

From mesmerising threads of spider's web to the first glint of sun after a polar winter, take a look at the winners and runners up from the 2025 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition: https://royalsociety.org/journals/publishing-activities/photo-competition/2025-winners-runners-up/

A brief history of the BioRxiv and MedRxiv preprint services, their meteoric growth and supportive role during the pandemic. Submitting preprints should be the primary step for scientific dissemination. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Join Sir Michael Ferguson FRS for the Leeuwenhoek Prize Lecture on 26 January 2026, as he explores how science can provide opportunities to make better, safer medicines and diagnostics for neglected infectious diseases. Register now: https://bit.ly/4j9U58P

🎉 Happy #new #year to everyone! 📢 No better way to kickstart 2026 than by sharing our latest work, now available on #Open #Biology by @royalsociety.org. The title is "Mutations within the predicted fragment-binding region of FAM83G/SACK1G abolish ints interaction with the Ser/Thr kinase CK1α".

Join us! Research Technician position available in Sapkota lab www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...

Esther Sammler positions Dundee among the first global sites to launch a Phase 3 Parkinson’s disease trial www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/esther-...

Best of luck today to Karolina Zeneviciute of the Sammler lab, defending her PhD thesis 'GBA1 and #Parkinsons Disease: Development of a Comprehensive Assay Framework and its Application in Clinical Sample Analysis'

Best of luck today to Neringa Pratuseviciute of the Sammler lab, defending her PhD thesis 'From genetic predisposition to biochemical validation: investigating the role of LRRK2 signalling in #Parkinsons Disease'

Interested in LRRK2? Join us in beautiful Scotland for the biennial LRRK2 meeting. Abstract submission is now open: bit.ly/LRRK2-26

Congratulations to Dr Prosenjit Pal on winning Best ECR Poster Award at the 11th International Symposium on Autophagy 2025, Lorne, Australia: 'Novel Motif in Several Proteins Interacting with a Lysosomal Membrane Integral Protein Implies a Link between Ubiquitylation, Autophagy, and Ciliogenesis'

Dr. Ralitsa Madsen awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s 2025 Dame Anne McLaren Medal www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/dr-rali...

Best of luck today to Temi Thompson, defending her MRes research 'Developing and Characterising PROTACs against Ser/Thr Protein kinase CK1δ/ε'

What happens in nature in eight minutes? What does a frog look like on the inside? What was the first written language? These questions, and many more, are answered in the books shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize: #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/11...

Accelerating Parkinson’s Trials: The EJS ACT-PD Clinical Trial and How You Can Get Involved 🗓 Thu 6 Nov, 5pm (Zoom) 🎙 Speaker: Prof Camille Carroll, Chief Investigator, ACT-PD 💬 Updates from Dundee Parkinson’s research and trials teams ➡️ More info here: parkinsons-org-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Best of luck today to Adam Walker, defending his MRes research 'Exploring Diverse Synthetic Strategies for SDE2 Ubiquitin-Like Domain Probe Development: A Multi-Modal Approach'

Meet the New Innovators Shaping the Future www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/meet...

Our latest interview is with 2025 @bscb-official.bsky.social Hooke Medal winner Ian Ganley of the University of Dundee @mrcppu.bsky.social‬‬. We spoke with Ian about his career journey, his approach to mentorship and his pet snowflake moray, Eel Armstrong. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Interview with the 2025 Hooke Medal winner Ian Ganley url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Join us! Research Technician position available with Dario Alessi www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...

Join us! Research Technician position available with Dario Alessi www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...

MRC PPU group leader Ian Ganley among those recognised by @royalsoced.bsky.social for his project 'Establishing autophagy models of #Parkinsons Disease to advance new therapeutic approaches': "RSE awards over £724K to boost Scotland’s vibrant research sector" rse.org.uk/rse-awards-o...

Ian Ganley Featured on North of Scotland Parkinson’s Podcast www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/ian-gan...

Wishing Professor Sir Philip Cohen a Very Happy 80th Birthday

How retired Fife farmer came to terms with #Parkinsons diagnosis www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...

Discovery that the NRBP1 pseudo-kinase activates the WNK Pathway www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/discove...

Best of luck today to Daniel Saarela of the Alessi lab, defending his PhD thesis 'Lysosome isolation for studying neurodegenerative diseases: story of LRRK2 and CLN3' #Dundee #StudentLife #PhDLife

Enzyme Inhibition Restores Neuron Pathways in a Parkinson’s Mouse Model www.genengnews.com/topics/drug-... @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org #MJFF

Delighted to announce Prof Miratul Muqit as Centre Director of our groundbreaking new Parkinson's Research Centre, a partnership with @parkinsons.org.uk!🎉👏 Prof Muqit is a world leader in Parkinson’s research, having made major contributions to understanding genetic risk👉 buff.ly/etNUa4b

Join an exciting and ambitious project involving kinome-wide #CRISPR screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons co-cultured with microglia to uncover novel drug targets for C9ORF72 motor neuron disease #neurodegeneration #MND #ALS #CRISPR #neuron #microglia www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...

MRC PPU Alumnus Honoured with Prestigious Medical Science Award www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/mrc-ppu...

Renowned Filmmakers Herne Katha Showcase Sapkota Lab’s Research to Global Nepali Audience www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/renowne...

Scotland’s First CyTOF XT Arrives at the University of Dundee to Power Single-Cell Research www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/scot...

Dundee researchers to receive International translational award to develop new medicines for Parkinson’s disease www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/dundee-...

Congratulations to Ian Ganley from MRC PPU, University of Dundee, the very deserving winner of the 2025 Hooke Medal bscb.org/hooke-medal-...

Researchers and people with #Parkinsons connect through talks, tours and poetry www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/researc...

University of Dundee Appoints Professor John D. Scott, FRS, to Honorary Professorship in the School of Life Sciences www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/univers... #Dundee

We are thrilled to announce that the latest generation of cellenONE X1Neo is being installed here at the MRC PPU www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/latest-... @ukdri.ac.uk

Arpan Mehta awarded the 51st Croom Medal and Lectureship www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/arpan-m... @rcpedin.bsky.social

We are enormously grateful to the Medical Research Council (MRC)/UKRI for their generous long-term support - 34 years and counting - for our research Unit at the University of Dundee www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/further... @dundee.ac.uk @ukri.org #Dundee