Sattlegger Lab

Kristine and Vina had successfully completed their Masters thesis, on AgriFood related topics.

Kristine's manuscript was selected as a Editor's Choice paper.

Siaosi finished his BSc(Hons) degree, with a thesis topic on identifying amino acids required for a specific protein- protein interaction.

Siaosi was awarded another scholarship, this time the Ministry for Pacific PeoplesToloa scholarship (2018).

Reuben was awarded the Massey University Māori doctoral scholarship (2019).

Susanne and Aditi competed in the 3 minute thesis (3MT, explain your thesis in 3 minutes in lay language) competition, both did very well. Susanne managed to be selected into the final round of Massey’s 3MT competition (2019).

Susanne became Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework (2019).

Congratulations to all of you (retrospectively), these are great accomplishments!!

We have had 5 publications!   On different topics.  Four of those in 2020.

One is on the link between IMPACT and cancer, the other on contamination of broiler farms which was selected as an Editor's choice paper, The third one is a review article on using yeast as a model to understand the regulation of the eukaryotic actin cytoskleleton.  Our forth paper is on EEF1A and epilepsy which was selected as editor's choice paper, it will be on the web soon.  We just got accepted for publication our paper on mapping domains in eEF1A involved in regulating the Gcn2 pathway.

This manuscript reports on a more sensitive and reliable Western detection of phospho-Gcn2, Gcn2, eIF2 and phospho-eIF2 in mammalian cells.  Other proteins can be detected with this method as well, of course.  The procedure is very fast, and also does not require expensive protease inhibitors.  see here:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016117300456

 

In this manuscript we report on a faster and cheaper method for making yeast extracts for quantitative westerns, it works beautifully and is very robust!!   see here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28568773" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28568773

Sara has secured a Massey PhD scholarship from the GRS, congratulations!  She is very eager to get started, and already has a few preliminary results.

Susanne has started her PhD in Nov 2017, welcome!!.  She is already heavily engaged in the lab, setting up solutions, drug sensitivity assay, yeast transformation!!! And congratulations on securing a PhD scholarship!

Congratulations to Reagan for securing a Summer Scholarship, to work in my research group on a small project on his own.  He has already done some volunteer work with us before securing the scholarship, and knows his way around in the lab.  Good luck with your project!  

Mustafa has obtained his BSc from Massey University, and is now volunteering with us to gain more hands-on laboratory experience.  

Finally it is possible again to post a blog.  The updating of the webiste is still not fully working, so keep in mind that the site is still out of date.  You will also find that the formatting got randomly changed.