The Department of Biochemistry is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2018 Marjorie McCallum MSc scholarships. This year the award has been shared by three students, Khanh Nguyen, Sarah Inwood, and Josiah Doorman.
Josiah is working in the laboratory of Professor Catherine Day on the role of the UBA domain in Ube2K Lys48-linked ubiquitin chain building, Sarah is working with Professor Peter Dearden on "Genetic technologies in the Argentine stem weevil", and Khanh is characterising the ubiquitin ligase activity of RNF114 also under the supervision of Prof Catherine Day.
The Marjorie McCallum trust also funds travel scholarships twice annually, and Attika Rehman is the recipient of the 2018 April grant. Attika intends to visit a lab in Laval University's Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (IBIS), Quebec, Canada. She will learn advanced bioinformatic tools to use on the data she has been generating during her PhD studies on antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Professor Iain Lamont's laboratory.
From left: Khanh Nguyen, Sarah Inwood, and Josiah Doorman
Attika Rehman working in the laboratory