Christos will give a presentation at the 51st RSC/ESR conference at QML University of London, between 8-12 April 2018. His talk will take place on the…
International EPR Society newsletter highlight
Dr Christos Pliotas was highlighted in a special issue of the International EPR Society (IES) newsletter celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Society of…
Carnegie Trust Incentive Grant Award
Dr Christos Pliotas has been awarded a Research Incentive Grant from the Carnegie Trust to study the gating mechanism of mechanosensitive ion channels at a single…
Ben’s arrival
We welcome Ben Lane, an Hons student, who will apply site directed mutagenesis and single molecule methodologies to study a mechanosensitive channel. The Pliotas group…
New Methods in Enzymology chapter in press
New method book chapter by the Pliotas group is out now in Methods in Enzymology. The book has been edited by Christine Ziegler and is…
Adam and Tiange arrivals
We welcome Adam Althobaiti and Tiange Li, new PhD students in our group. Adam will study the structure of novel eukaryotic ion channels and Tiange will…
Robert’s arrival
We welcome Robert Nairn, a Master student who will develop novel computational approaches to study mechanosensitive channels. The Pliotas group wishes him all the best…
Bolin and Mary arrivals
We welcome two new PhD students in the Pliotas group. Bolin Wang and Mary Ma, originally from China have just joined the group to work…
Firbush retreat
The annual BSRC research retreat took place at the Firbush outdoor activities centre on the banks of Loch Tay in late August. The Pliotas group…
New research article on Kef channel
A new research article was published last week in the journal Biochemistry. The study presents a new x-ray crystal structure of the regulatory domain of the Kef…