UK Parkinson's Disease Consortium - UKPDC
- Home
- News
- Background
- Principal Investigators
- Co-Investigators
- Research Groups
- Collaborators
- Funding
- Publications
- Contact us
News
Public lecture: The autophagy signaling network, c-‐myc and pathology: don't mess with the cell cycle!
You are invited to a public lecture by Francesco Cecconi, an eminent scientist in the field of autophagy and neurodegeneration, on Thursday the 25th of April at 17:00, in the lecture theatre of 33 Queen Square, University College Hospital London, WC1N. The lecture will be followed by a general discussion with drinks and food. More...
Video: Brain Disease Research - Keeping You You
Have you ever wondered how scientists research the brain?
Have you wondered who digs through that beautiful mass of grey matter between
our ears to understand how it works and why it stops working? Meet the
Neurodegenerative Diseases Initiative. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and MRC, this
team of scientists from around the globe investigates Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
and Motor Neuron Diseases. The team is on the hunt for understanding and
treatments for brain diseases. More...
Video: Degenerating Brains public symposium
The "Degenerating Brains" public symposium was held on the 13th March 2013, as part of Brain Awareness Week. Around 250 people showed up to hear Professors John Hardy (UCL), Chris Shaw (KCL) and David Rubinsztein (Cambridge) discuss new discoveries in neurodegenerative diseases and how they might impact drug treatment. More...
Mutations in VCP gene implicated in a number of neurodegenerative diseases
New research, published in Neuron, gives insight into how single mutations in the VCP gene cause a range of neurological conditions including a form of dementia called Inclusion Body Myopathy, Paget’s Disease of the Bone and Frontotemporal Dementia (IBMPFD), and the motor neuron disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). More...
Public lectures: new research into Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neuron Disease
You are invited to an evening (13th March 2013) exploring the very latest in cutting edge research into neurodegenerative diseases. Supported by the Wellcome Trust, scientists investigating Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Motor Neuron disease will explain how our understanding of these disorders is changing in the light of new discoveries in genetics and cell biology, and how these discoveries impact on developing new drugs for these diseases.
18.00 Welcome and introduction
18.10 Lectures commence
More...
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Group
The research focus currently resides on unravelling the function and disease related dysregulation of the mitochondrial Parkinson’s Disease (PD) related protein kinase PINK1. Mutations in PINK1 are associated with early onset PD (EOPD) and are the second most common cause of recessive disease. In the past few years our understanding of PINK1 function has grown significantly and PINK1 has been linked to numerous cellular functions such as neuroprotection, mitochondrial fission-fusion and mitochondrial clearance through mitophagy, to name a few. Recently, though cellular and proteomic approaches Dr Deas has identified a number of novel PINK1 protein interactors and the current focus of her work is to explore the significance of these interactions with respect to disease.
A series of molecular biology and biochemical techniques are employed within the laboratory including: western blot, SDS-PAGE, Phos-tag gel analysis of phosphorylated proteins, patient DNA sequencing, cloning, protein interaction studies and kinase assays.
At present a variety of cell and animal models are utilised including human fetal ventral mesencephalon stem cells (ReNCells - which can be differentiated into dopaminergic neurons), primary patient fibroblasts and primary mouse neuronal cultures.
|
|
|
Page last modified on 21 jan 11 10:08
