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SCILLS recruits new Programme Leader
Thimo Kurz has accepted an offer to join the Protein Ubiquitination Unit of SCILLS. Thimo, who is German, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tubingen, Germany in 2001 and his PhD at the University of Oregon, USA in 2003. He then moved to Switzerland to carry out postdoctoral research at the ETH, Zurich where he is currently a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher. He will relocate to Dundee in the spring of 2009.
Thimo’s research is centered on the Cullin-based family of E3 ubiquitin ligases, which play key roles in regulating the level of expression of many proteins, such as the Cyclin-dependent protein kinase inhibitor p27. Intriguingly, the Cullin-based E3 ligases are themselves regulated by another ubiquitin-like protein, termed Nedd8. “Neddylation” of the Cullin component of the complex leads to the activation of the E3 ligase activity by triggering dissociation of the inhibitor protein Cand1.
Thimo is married to Debbie and they have a two year old son called Noah.
University of Dundee