Grants to pick apart proteins

28 May 2010

We have awarded two grants to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh through our Molecules, Genes and Cells funding stream.

Professor Bill Earnshaw has had a programme grant associated with his Trust Principal Research Fellowship renewed. He will use a range of techniques, including live-cell imaging, to investigate the proteins that play a key role in the changes that chromosomes undergo during mitosis.

To aid this and other research into protein interactions in the cell, Dr Juri Rappsilber and colleagues at the Centre have been awarded an equipment grant to purchase a next generation mass spectrometer.

Image: A cell in anaphase, a stage of cell division. Credit: Matthew Daniels