We awarded our annual Translation Prize last night, recognising researchers at the Crick who are applying their research in a real-world setting. Congratulations to our winner Anaid Benitez, runner-up Andreia Bernardo and all the nominees! 🏆🎉crick.ac.uk/news/2023-10-1…

Our latest paper uses structural biology, biochemistry & biophysics to reveal the two-step catalytic mechanism of the human nucleotide pool sanitiser DNPH1. This will aid the development of novel inhibitors, which may be of use in breast cancer treatment. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations to Caroline Hill and Xiaodong Zhang on being awarded almost £6 million in Wellcome Wellcome Discovery Awards to study DNA repair and organ development in zebrafish and humans 🥳 crick.ac.uk/news-and-repor…

Merry Christmas from the West lab 🎄

📣The Francis Crick Institute has launched The Translation Scholar 🎓 initiative, a new role that combines #AcademicResearch with #Entrepreneurship to bring technologies to market. Congrats to Anaid Benitez for being the inaugural holder.🔬💼 We're also hiring! lnkd.in/dV-T2rxm

Looking forward to it!

Delighted to share that my manuscript of "Mechanism of single-stranded DNA annealing by RAD52-RPA complex" is now in Nature!

📣#RECOMBINATION25 PROGRAMME NOW LIVE! Exciting news! The first draft of the programme for the 2nd Recombination Mechanisms conference is now available. 🌟 🗓Important Deadlines: Early Bird & Talk Submission – 28 Nov 2024 Poster Submission & Registration Deadline – 13 Mar 2025

We are pleased to inform you that the meeting “From Genome Instability to Cancer: A tribute to Angelos Constantinou” that will take place in Carry-Le-Rouet from March 10th to March 13th 2025 is now open for registration on the link: tribute2angelos.fr/page/home/

Extremely happy to share our new work on a transcription checkpoint at the beginning of genes. Congratulations to Dan Blears and Jiangman Lou for their impressive work on this. eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Our article "MCM double hexamer loading visualized with human proteins" published in Nature today! ❄️🔬🧬🎉🥳 Great collaboration with John Diffley's lab. Congratulations to Florian Weissmann, Julia Greiwe and all other authors! rdcu.be/d1F7m