October 2024
Welcome to Hiruni (post-doc), and welcome back to Hannah (technician), Nadra (PhD student) and Nik (PhD student). Nadra, Nik and Hannah were all in Aneika's tutor group at various times during their undergraduate degree. Nik did his MSci project with us back in 2020-2021.
October 2024
Our new Orbitrap Ascend Tribrid mass spectrometer with extended mass range arrives! We are looking forward to analysing large protein complexes and exploring the use of UVPD, ETD, PTCR fragmentation.
September 2024
Jas won a travel grant to attend the British Mass Spectrometry Conference in Warwick. She gave a great talk on detecting cyanobacteria directly from lake water.
August 2024
We have moved to a new lab on the 8th floor in Biosciences.
Our latest work on how phosphorylation affects Pin1 activity is now online in Protein Science. Great collaboration with the Doveston group at the University of Leicester. Congratulations to all involved.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.5138
July 2024
Congratulations to all BSc students (Hassana, Evangeline, Iris, Amisha), MSci student (Helena) and PhD student (Tom) who graduated today!
June 2024
Jas, Danielle and Aneika visited Anaheim, California for the American Society Mass Spectrometry conference. Excellent posters/talks from all, with a memorable Disney themed closing event after the final magician's talk.
May 2024
Jas and Danielle presented posters at the Bioscience Postgraduate Symposium. Congratulation to Danielle who won the poster prize!
April 2024
Aneika attends the IBBI conference in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany.
Albert Heck celebrates 25 years of his lab in Utrecht. Aneika, as a former post-doc of Albert's group gave an excellent talk alongside experts in the field of proteomics.
March 2024
Jas has received travel grants from the Biochemical Society and British Phycological Society to attend ASMS in California! Congratulations Jas.
Aneika attends the Molecular Biophysics Conference in Germany. A great opportunity to showcase our recent cyanobacteria work.
January 2024
Our latest paper on molecular glues is now published in Journal Biological Chemistry.
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(24)00027-9/fulltext. Congratulations Danielle and Jedd
November 2023
This month, we hosted the British Mass Spectrometry Biomolecular Structure Conference. An excellent day of hands-on training and instrument talks, followed by exciting talks at The Exchange.
October 2023
Tom submits his PhD thesis and BSc students Iris, Amisha, Eve, Hassana, and MSci student Helena join the lab.
September 2023
Our latest paper on molecular glues is now on BioRXiv:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.26.559467v1
A great collaborative effort with the University of Leicester.
June 2023
Danielle's publication on using mass spec to determine how molecular glues work is now online in Chemical Science. Congratulations to all involved. Great collaboration with Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Leicester.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/sc/d3sc01732j
Look here for a more general overview: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/mass-spectrometry-uncovers-actions-of-protein-glues
May 2023
Tom won 3rd prize for his oral presentation at the biosciences post-graduate symposium. Well done Tom.
April 2023
New group photo! Thank you to all the BSc students for working in the lab over the last 8 weeks, we hope you enjoyed it!
March 2023
Congratulations to Kish on passing his PhD viva!
February 2023
Thrupthi joins the lab as a new research technician. Welcome to the lab!
January 2023
BSc students - Polina, Tegen, Katie, Charlotte and Adam join the lab to work on projects to do with using cyanobacteria to remove of metals from the environment and developing new mass spectrometry techniques.
December 2022
Our review has just been accepted in Essays in Biochemistry! Congratulations to Jas and Jedd.
November 2022
Billie, Danielle and Aneika attended the BioMacromolecular Structure meeting in Leeds, UK. Congratulations to Billie for getting a travel grant to attend. Great to be able to organise training for new mass spectrometrists on Native MS and HDX-MS. Here's a picture of the organisers together with the poster/presentation prize winners.
October 2022
New people join the group. Welcome Hadeeqa, Polina, Tegen, Charlotte, Katie and welcome back Adam!
September 2022
Congratulations to Kish on receiving the Michael Barber for the best talk at the British Mass Spectrometry conference in Manchester. Well done also to Danielle for presenting her first poster at a National meeting.
August 2022
Some of the group members presented their work at the International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Maastricht, NL. Congratulations to Jas on receiving the Nico Nibbering student travel award. It was a great conference with lots of inspiring posters and talks!
July 2022
Aneika has been promoted to Associate Professor. A huge thank you to all lab members past and present that have contributed towards this success!
Billie Gething has won a Summer Studentship Grant from AlgaeUK to work in the lab for 8 weeks. Welcome back to the lab Billie and congratulations on your award.
June 2022
Parts arrive ready to assemble the hydrogen-deuterium exchange device. Watch out for some HDX-MS hopefully coming soon!
May 2022
Kish won 1st prize for his talk at the Biosciences Post-graduate symposium. Congratulations Kish, well deserved!
April 2022
Danielle and Jas are joining the lab for their rotation for their MIBTP PhD mini-projects. Welcome Danielle and welcome back Jas!
March 2022
Kish, Jedd and Aneika attended the Isolated Biomolecules and Biomolecular Interactions conference in Obergurgl, Austria. Congratulations to Kish who won the poster prize and to Jedd for giving an excellent talk.
February 2022
Congratulations to Kish on his first mass spectrometry paper title "FAIMS enhances the detection of PTM crosstalk sites". An excellent collaboration between John Heath, Debbie Cunningham.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00721
January 2022
Excited that our metal-binding paper titled "Probing heavy metal binding to phycobiliproteins" is now published in FEBS J. Congratulations Jedd and Jas!
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/febs.16396
December 2021
Great to have an in-person group Christmas meal together with the Cooper group.
November 2021
Congratulations to Jas and Jedd on their latest paper titled "Rapid cyanobacteria species identification with high sensitivity using native mass spectrometry" in Analytical Chemistry. Great collaboration with CCAP and the Scottish Association for Marine Science.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03412
Nice to see our work highlighted by the University of Birmingham and getting some great feedback. Have a look here for more information on what we do:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2021/new-tool-can-identify-harmful-blue-green-algae
October 2021
5 BSc students have joined the lab for a final year group project on metal binding proteins within algae. Welcome Tasnia, Johanna, Tyronne, Anika and Daniel!
September 2021
Excited to see our work highlighted near the front page in the Analytical Scientist.
August 2021
Alexandra Webb joins the lab for a summer studentship funded through the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund. Welcome Alex!
Sad to see our undergraduate summer project students, Asti, Adam and Billie leave after an excellent 6 weeks in the lab despite the difficulties the group faced.
July 2021
Our latest paper is now online in Chemical Science and has been highlighted as "pick of the week" by the editors! Congratulations to Jedd and Manjari, and all other authors involved!
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/sc/2021/d1sc01450a#!divAbstract
Have a look at the press release associated with it:
CONGRATULATIONS to all group members that graduated in 2021! Nik, Sarah, Laura all did excellent in their projects and will be missed.
May 2021
Congratulations to Sarah, Laura, Nik and Arppana for completing their BSc/masters projects. It was great to have you in the lab. Hope you all stay in touch!
June 2021
Gemma Hutchinson and Derick Gyimah join the lab for their MSc project. Welcome both!
April 2021
We have upgraded our Synapt G2S to have a 32k quad. Excited to be able to get some big protein complexes flying! Thanks Waters for your help.
January 2021
Happy New Year!
October 2020
Jedd (Post-doc) and Jas (technician) join the lab. Welcome both!
September 2020
Matt (PhD student), Sarah and Nik (MSci students) join the lab. Arppana (Sarah) and Laura start their new projects. Welcome everyone!
August 2020
Our new bioreactors arrive....
July 2020
Back in the lab after a short break for covid....
May 2020
Anna Peters joins the lab for her MSc project. Welcome Anna!
Mar 2020
Monisa Mujawar joins the lab for her MRes project. Welcome Monisa!
Nov 2019
Our paper entitled "Loss of CRMP2 O-GlcNAcylation leads to reduced novel object recognition performance in mice" has been accepted in Open Biology. Congratulations to everyone involved!
Sep 2019
Kishan Adoni joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Kish!
Jul 2019
Dr. Leney presents the groups work on microalgae at the "Celebration of MS at Leeds" conference.
Jun 2019
The Orbitrap Eclipse arrives....1st in the UK!
Our nature microbiology paper is now online!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0481-y
May 2019
Lots of interest surrounding our Cell Chem paper! Here are a few links....
https://newsbeezer.com/italyeng/microalgae-for-increasing-the-efficiency-of-photovoltaic-cells/
May 2019
Rinoz Razick joins the lab for his MSc project. Welcome Rinoz!
Our paper in J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. is now online!
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs13361-019-02198-3.pdf
Our Cell Chemistry paper is now online!
https://www.cell.com/chem/pdfExtended/S2451-9294(19)30110-X
Apr 2019
Our BBSRC grant was successful! We will have a new mass spec soon.....
Manjari has secured a BMSS studentship to work on her project on stabilising protein-protein interactions. Congratulations!
Mar 2019
Dr. Leney presents the groups work on Algae protein characterisation in Paris at the Top-down symposium.
Jan 2019
Heather Scott (PhD student) joined the group for a mini-project as part of the MIBTP. Welcome Heather!
Dec 2018
Manjari Mohata (MSci student) joined the group and is helping out with several projects on protein characterisation by mass spectrometry.
Oct 2018
Alex Munro-Clark (MSc student) joined the group - Welcome Alex!
