McGouran Laboratory

Congratulations to Valerio on being awarded a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship from the IRC. We are looking forward to welcoming him to the group in October. 

Susie, Ellen and Patrick present their outreach project on the Chemistry of Enzymes at the TCD Outreach Symposium. More details here

Ellen and Susie have spent the day representing the group and the School of Chemistry at the Irish Science Teachers Conference.

Our new paper on alkene probes for deubiquitinating enzymes out in Chemical Science. Read it here.

Eva & Neil have been presenting posters and representing the group at the International Symposium on Chemical Biology in Geneva this week.

Ellen and Susie have spent the day encouraging women in STEM at the IWish exhibition.

Ellen and Susie have spent the morning inspiring the next generation of scientists at the BT Young Scientist exhibition.

New mini review on selective probes for deubiquitinating enzymes and ligases out in Frontiers in Chemistry. Read it here.

The group demonstrate extraction of DNA from strawberries as part of the European Researchers night.

Congratulations to Neil for winning a poster prize at the CSCB symposium today!

Art work from our latest submission on inhibition of SNM1A has been chosen for the front cover of OBC. Read the paper here.

New paper on assay optimisation for XPF/ERCC1 for inhibitor discovery. Read it here.

Congratulations to Neil for winning the Dorgan prize for his talk at the Trinity Chemistry Postgrad day today!

Congratulations to Ellen and Susie for IRC success! We look forward to welcoming you back into the group as  a PhD students in September.

New paper on 5' modifications of nucleosides and their interaction with exonuclease SNM1A. Read it here.

Congratulations to Mark for his poster prize at the RSC Organic Division symposium today!

Congratulations to Neil for winning a best talk prize at the Dublin Chemistry 3rd year talks today!

Congratulations to Eva for her being awarded a travel grant to attend and present her work at the Heidelberg Forum for young life scientists.

Welcome to the group to Fergus, our Postdoc from Trinity College Dublin. Fergus will join the group for a few months.

Congratulations to Werner for getting excellent marks on his Masters project from his home institution, the University of Basel.  We wish you all the best in your future endeavours. 

New paper on human platelet ubiquitylation. Read it here.

Congratulations to Eva for her poster prize at the CSCB symposium in the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. 

New paper on 5' modifications of oligonucleotides and their interaction with exonuclease SNM1A. Read it here.

Welcome to the group to Ellen and Susie, who rejoin the group as our new PhD students.

Also welcome to Manav and Jessica, our undergraduate project students.

New paper on protein phosphorylation induced by Dengue virus simulation. Read it here.

New paper on Methods for detection of cytosine and thymine modifications in DNA. Read it here.

The group demonstrate extraction of DNA from strawberries as part of the European Researchers night.

Welcome to the group to Werner, our Masters Student from the University of Basel.

Werner will join the group for 6 months.

Congratulations to Mark for his poster prize at the Medicinal Chemistry Ireland Conference in Dublin City University. 

Congratulations to Eva for her poster prize at the RSC Organic Division Meeting in Belfast. 

New paper on itaconate as an anti-inflammatory metabolite that activates Nrf2 via alkylation of KEAP1. Read it here.

Full funding available for a PhD student to begin September 2018.

New paper on USP7 inhibition out in Nature. Read it here.

Welcome to the group to Aisling and John, our new Senior Sophister students.

Also welcome back to the group to Mark who is beginning his PhD.

Congratulations to Eva for her poster prize at the Nucleic acids forum in London. 

Congratulations to Eva for her RSC grant to travel to Oxford this summer to work with Prof. Tom Brown.

New paper on DNA damage repair out in EMBO J. Read it here.

Congratulations to Mark for IRC success! We look forward to welcoming you back into the group as  a PhD student in September.

We are delighted to welcome William, our first postdoc, to the group.

New paper on P10 phosphorylation accepted to the Journal of Virology. Read it here.

For purchase of a bimolecular imager

Institutional strategic support fund grant awarded.

Synthesis and evaluation of anti-Trypanosomal agents Full text

Approaches to Profile SUMOylation in Human Cells. Abstract

Welcome to Eva, Neil & Mark joining the group this September.