MOAC News
MOAC Student wins Poster Prize!
Congratulation to Rober Deller who recently won 1st Place at the Younger Members Symposium held at the University of Nottingham by the Royal Society of Chemistry for his work on Peptidomimetic Cryopreservation Agents. The title of his poster was "Peptidomimetic Approaches to Mimicking Antifreeze Protein Function."
SLS symposium - MOAC students present their research
Three members of the 2008 MOAC cohort (Vicky Marlow, Mike Chow and John Blood) presented their research at the School of Life Sciences symposium on 28/2/12.
The talk took place at 9am in GLT1
Dan Pearce wins poster prize!
Dan Pearce, 2nd year PhD student, comes runner up in the Physics PhD poster presentation.
Structural studies on a Meningitis B vaccine
Results from a study undertaken by MOAC and chemistry PhD student Angela Martino and her supervisor Alison Rodger were published this week on 4CMenB (a new meningococcal B vaccine). The results adds to the weight of evidence which it is hoped will bring about licensure and introduction of this vaccine into the UK schedule. The work was supported by Meningitis Research Foundation and undertaken in collaboration with scientists at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control at Potter’s Bar and Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. The results from the study defined the structural stability of one the essential vaccine components, NHBA, and determined the conditions under which it will be able to stimulate antibodies that will kill meningococcal B bacteria as part of the vaccine.More details can be found at http://shar.es/fyDC1 and Vaccine, 2012, Vol. 30, issue 7, pp. 1330-1342 doi 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.12
