SCILLS - The Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling

SCILLS is dedicated to the study of how biological processes are controlled and how they become deregulated in disease. The Protein Ubiquitination Unit is the Institute's first research Division. Its major aims are to advance understanding of the role of protein ubiquitination and related modifications in cell regulation and human disease, to facilitate the development of drugs to treat diseases caused by abnormalities in this process, to generate reagents and improve technologies on which more rapid progress in this area depends, and to train the next generation of scientists who will advance the subject.

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Arno Alpi wins Best Poster at International Scientific Meeting

SCILLS Programme Leader, Arno Alpi, received an award for Best Poster at the EMBO Conference "Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like Modifers: from functional modules to systems biology", held in Dubrovnik in September, for his poster entitled: "A UBC fold in the FANCL RING ligase binds ubiquitin to mediate FANCD2 monoubiquitylation". The project was done in collaboration with Helen Walden at Cancer Research UK, London.

Arno received his prize from Hartmut Vodermaier, Editor of EMBO Journal.

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