02 August 2006

Sheffield overruns Cambridge

No fewer than 13 Sheffield academics and students attended the joint British Society for Proteome Research and European Bioinformatics Institute Annual Meeting 2006 in Cambridge.

Staff and students of our Biological and Environmental Systems Group (BESG) attended together with representatives of the Academic Unit of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine. BESG delegates were: Professor Phillip Wright (Head), Dr. Catherine Biggs, Dr. Jillian Newton, and research students Jagroop Pandhal, Martin Barrios-Llerena, Shirly Chong, Chee-Sian Gan, Trong Khoa, Ana Pereira-Medrano, and Saw Yen Ow.

Professor Phillip Wright, Head of BESG, was particularly pleased that Shirly Chong won the prize for best presentation with her work on 'alcohol and ketone metabolism of Sulfolobus Solfataricus P2'. Stephen Georgiou of the Academic Unit of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine won a poster prize for 'global quantitative profiling technology to investigate cell surface protein trafficking'.

The attendance of such a large Sheffield delegation shows that a lot of different and successful proteomic research is carried out at the University.