Jan 10 2021 Read 323 Times University of Dundee researchers Dr Yogesh Kulathu and Dr Jorunn Bos, leading investigations into plant cell biology and in provision of plant protection respectively, have been awarded over €4 million by The European Research Council (ERC) as winners of an ERC Consolidator Grant. Dr Kulathu’s €2.1 million project, StressHUb, will investigate fundamental principles regulating stress at the cellular level and develop new technologies and methodologies for understanding cellular responses to environmental stress. “We are studying almost unexplored areas of cell biology which has immense potential for ground-breaking discoveries. StressHUb will explore the functions of branched heterotypic ubiquitin chains (HUbs) in cellular stress responses. These branched HUbs play important roles in the physiology of human cells, however, their functions have not been defined because of the complex nature of these modifications and the lack of ways to study them,” said Dr Kulathu, MRC Investigator and Group Leader at the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU).