Klose Lab News
Anca wins top CRUK Prize
Anca Farcas, former DPhil student in the lab, is the joint winner of Cancer Research UK (CRUK) 2014 Pontecorvo Prize.
The prize is awared to the CRUK-funded student who produced the best PhD thesis and made the most outstanding contribution to scientific knowledge in their field of research.
This a great recognition of all of Anca’s hard work in the lab. Congratulations Anca!
Klose Lab Retreat 2015 – Niederau, Austria
The Klose lab has returned safely from another highly successful lab retreat. Based in the small Austrian village Niederau, the retreat proved to be stimulating scientifically and socially within the lab. When the lab wasn’t discussing science, we made the most of the fantastic weather and spent time enjoying the fantastic mountain scenery (and the ski slopes!).
Dave passed his DPhil viva!
Congratulations to Dave for passing his DPhil viva!
Well done Dr Brown!
Dr Angelika Feldmann joined the lab!
Angelika is joining us from Dirk Schubeler’s lab at the FMI, Basel. She will be focusing on the mechanisms by which different promoter classes coordinate their regulatory inputs in vertebrates.
Conferences – EMBO Transcription and Chromatin, and CSHL Epigenetics and Chromatin
Lab members attended two conferences recently.
Hamish attended the EMBO Transcription and Chromatin conference in Heidelberg, Germany, where he presented a poster.
Rob and Neil also attended the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Epigenetics and Chromatin conference in the US, where Rob presented the latest work from the lab on polycomb recruitment.
Rob is scientist of the month at abcam for July 2014
Read about it here:
http://www.abcam.com/epigenetics/scientist-of-the-month-rob-klose
Rob is awarded Monsanto Senior Research Fellowship at Exeter
Congratulations to Rob, who has just been awarded the Monsanto Senior Research Fellowship at Exeter College here in Oxford.
Nathan presented his work at the EMBO/FEBS Lecture Course ‘Nuclear Proteomics’ in Kos, Greece
Anca passed her DPhil viva!
Congratulations to Anca for passing her DPhil viva! Well done Dr Farcas!
Dr Vincenzo di Cerbo joined the lab!
Vincenzo is joining us from Rob Schneider’s lab at the IGBMC, Strasbourg. He will be studying how Trithorax protein complexes regulate transcription in mouse embryonic stem cells.
Publication – Understanding the relationship between DNA methylation and histone lysine methylation
Nathan’s review article on the connection between DNA methylation and histone lysine methylation has now been accepted for publication. Read the final article here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1874939914000285
Dr Emilia Dimitrova joined the lab!
Welcome to Dr Emilia Dimitrova who has joined our lab. Emilia completed her PhD at the Babraham Institute with Sarah Elderkin, and she joins our lab to work on the zinc-finger CxxC domain proteins.
Hannah passed her DPhil viva!
We celebrated with Hannah after she successfully defended her thesis!
Publication – ZF-CxxC domain-containing proteins, CpG islands and the chromatin connection
Congratulations to Hannah and Neil for their latest review article.
Read the article here:
Publication – Epigenetic conservation at gene regulatory elements revealed by non-methylated DNA profiling in seven vertebrates
Congratulations to Hannah for her publication in eLife today. Check out the paper here:
Celebrating Anca and Hannah’s eLife paper
Today we celebrated Anca and Hannah’s eLife papers with a glass or two of champagne. Well done Anca and Hannah!
Jin successfully defended his DPhil thesis
The first DPhil student from the Klose lab, Jin Zhou, defneded his thesis today. Congratulations!
Publication – KDM2B links the Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) to recognition of CpG islands
Anca’s paper was published in eLife. Congratulations to her and all other co-authors!