A warm welcome to Akshada Gajbhiye who is joining us from India to work on proteomics collaborations.

Akshada will play an important role within our Wellcome Trust equipment grant which provided the TIMS TOF Pro mass spectrometer.

Our paper on the signalling downstream of MSR1 in M2 macrophages in finally out in EMBO Journal. Fantastic work by Manman and Anetta particularly.

I am very proud of this work showing a role of ubiquitylation in signalling on the phagosome.

you can find the paper here: LINK

A warm welcome to Maria Duenas who joins our team to develop and apply tools in high-throughput MALDI TOF mass spectrometry.

you can find her site here:

https://trostlab.com/dr-maria-duenas/

We are very happy to announce that the Trost lab was awarded the Wellcome Investigator Award in Science. It will allow us to study the role of ubiquitylation on the phagosome for the next 5 years.

Manman, a former PhD student from the Trost lab, has recently given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Alice Wu.

Congratulations to the proud mum and dad and hopefully lots of sleep.

PhD student Rachel Heap who got recently the EMBL Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme fellowship to attend the recent EMBL proteomics meeting.

Now she got the Tony B. Academic Travel Award of the SLAS Europe meeting in Barcelona.

Congratulations, Rachel. Well done!

From left to right: Jose, Abeer, Joe, Fred, Tiaan, Rachel, Sandra, Matthias, Nine, Frances, Megan, Beth and Alexandra

A warm welcome to our new PhD student Joe and new post-doc José.

Both will be working together to understand more about the role of a specific E3 ligase on the phagosome and in innate immunity.

Congratulations to Julien and Anetta for their contributions to another MCP paper: “Spatiotemporal changes of the phagosomal proteome in dendritic cells in response to LPS stimulation”

https://www.mcponline.org/content/early/2019/02/26/mcp.RA119.001316

Congratulations to Matthew from the Kurz lab for this nice paper in EMBO-Journal. Matthew spent some in our lab in Dundee. Glad that we could help with this nice story!

http://emboj.embopress.org/content/early/2019/02/25/embj.2018100024