Funding: Molecules, Genes and Cells

Several new awards have been made under the Wellcome Trust's Molecules, Genes and Cells funding stream, including:

Tomo Tanaka and Professor Julian Blow of the University of Dundee were awarded a programme grant for imaging studies of DNA replication in living budding yeast cells.

Professor Ernest Laue of the University of Cambridge was awarded a programme grant for further work on the structure and function of the heterochromatin-protein 1 (HP1) family, as well as links between HP1, chromatin assembly and disassembly and gene activity.

Catherine Pears and Professor Louis Mahadevan at the University of Oxford have been awarded a project grant to develop Dictyostelium as a model organism for studying epigenetic modifications during development. Dr Pears, a Dictyostelium biologist, and Professor Mahadevan, who works on chromatin biology in mammalian cells, bring complementary expertise to this project.