New RNA-editing paper coming soon……..

Posted on 21 June 2013 by Pete

We’ve just heard that our paper will be published soon by Plant Cell and Environment.  It shows how a common UK seaweed responds to copper at a molecular level. Full text is here, and citation details are: Intracellular localization and induction of a dynamic RNA-editing event of macro-algal V-ATPase subunit A (VHA-A) in response to copper
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Seeing the Light for the First Time

Posted on 21 June 2013 by Pete

“Stored beam has been lost.” If you have ever been a User at the Diamond synchrotron you will probably be irritatingly used to these words. These words are quite likely a sign that the experiment you have spent a lot of time and effort preparing for has been cut short due to a problem with
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Seeing the Light

Posted on 21 June 2013 by Pete

So to business…..what is like to be here and what makes us so excited. A serious point to start, even an instrument as sophisticated and expensive as the Diamond Synchrotron provides information which is only as good as the samples with which it is feed….you know the expression ‘rubbish in rubbish out’…so we go to
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Diamond Light on the Longest Day

Posted on 21 June 2013 by Pete

So as you will see from our first few lines it has taken me and John a little bit longer to get to writing our blog than we anticipated. As with the best laid plans of ‘mice and men’ things never run to plan, and when you’re running on a beamline that costs ~£1K per
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