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from virtual seminars to sustainable online communities Authors (9) Francesca Bottanelli Bruno Cadot Felix CampeloScott Curran Patricia M Davidson Gautam Dey Ishier Raote Anne Straube Matthew P Swaffer Journal of Cell Science Published 14 August 2020 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details Pandemic peak SARS-CoV-2 infection and seroconversion rates in London frontline health-care workers Authors (341) Catherine F Houlihan Nina Vora Thomas Byrne Dan LewerGavin Kelly Judith Heaney[...] Andrew Hayward Richard Gilson Gavin KellyFiona Roberts Emine Hatipoglu The Lancet Published 25 July 2020 Crick labs/ facilitiesAndreas WackKaren VousdenJernej UleJames TurnerMoritz TreeckCharles SwantonAdam SaterialeErik SahaiCaetano Reis e SousaPeter RatcliffeLucia Prieto-GodinoVenizelos PapayannopoulosAnne O’GarraPaul NurseGeorge KassiotisMaximiliano GutierrezSonia GandhiSteve GamblinPeter Cherepanov Luiz Pedro CarvalhoDominique BonnetMike BlackmanRupert BealeWorldwide Influenza CentreStructural BiologyMetabolomicsHuman Embryonic Stem CellHigh Throughput ScreeningGenetic Modification ServiceFlow CytometryFermentationExperimental HistopathologyElectron MicroscopyCell ServicesBiological Research FacilityBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingScientific computingFull details Community curation in PomBase: enabling fission yeast experts to provide detailed, standardized, sharable annotation from research publications Authors (5) Antonia Lock Midori A Harris Kim RutherfordJacqueline Hayles Valerie Wood Database (Oxford) Published 30 April 2020 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details The hydrophobic patch directs cyclin B to centrosomes to promote global CDK phosphorylation at mitosis Authors (6)Saz BasuEmma RobertsAndrew Jones Matthew P SwafferBram SnijdersPaul Nurse Current Biology Published 9 March 2020 Crick labs/ facilitiesPaul NurseProteomicsLight MicroscopyCell ServicesAdvanced SequencingFull details A homeostatic mechanism rapidly corrects aberrant nucleocytoplasmic ratios maintaining nuclear size in fission yeast Authors (2)Helena CantwellPaul Nurse Journal of Cell Science Published 14 November 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details Kinesin-8 and Dis1/TOG collaborate to limit spindle elongation from prophase to anaphase A for proper chromosome segregation in fission yeast Authors (4) Corinne Pinder Yuzy Matsuo Sebastian P Maurer Takashi Toda Journal of Cell Science Published 23 September 2019 Crick labsThomas SurreyPaul NurseFull details Using genetics to understand biology Authors (2)Paul NurseJacqueline Hayles Heredity Published 1 July 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details Unravelling nuclear size control Authors (2)Helena CantwellPaul Nurse Current Genetics Published 1 December 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details Nuclear membrane protein Lem2 regulates nuclear size through membrane flow Authors (4) Kazunori KumeHelena Cantwell Alana BurrellPaul Nurse Nature Communications Published 23 April 2019 Crick labs/ facilitiesPaul NurseElectron MicroscopyFull details Noisy cell-size-correlated expression of Cyclin B drives probabilistic cell-size homeostasis in fission yeast Authors (3) James O Patterson Paul ReesPaul Nurse Current Biology Published 19 March 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details A systematic genetic screen identifies essential factors involved in nuclear size control Authors (2)Helena CantwellPaul Nurse PLOS Genetics Published 13 February 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong Authors (2) The Gene Ontology ConsortiumJacqueline Hayles Nucleic Acids Research Published 8 January 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details PomBase 2018: user-driven reimplementation of the fission yeast database provides rapid and intuitive access to diverse, interconnected information Authors (7) Antonia Lock Kim Rutherford Midori A HarrisJacqueline Hayles Stephen G Oliver Jürg Bähler Valerie Wood Nucleic Acids Research Published 8 January 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals the signaling dynamics of cell-cycle kinases in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe Authors (5) Matthew P SwafferAndrew Jones Helen R FlynnBram SnijdersPaul Nurse Cell Reports Published 10 July 2018 Crick labs/ facilitiesPaul NurseProteomicsFull details Fission yeast telosomes: non-canonical histone-containing chromatin structures dependent on shelterin and RNA Authors (4)Jessica Greenwood Harshil Patel Thomas R Cech Julia Promisel Cooper Nucleic Acids Research Published 28 September 2018 Crick labs/ facilitiesPaul NurseBioinformatics and BiostatisticsFull details Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Next page Next Last page Last Share the page Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email
Identification of mutants with increased variation in cell size at onset of mitosis in fission yeast Authors (4) Elizabeth Scotchman Kazunori Kume Francisco J NavarroPaul Nurse Journal of Cell Science Published 11 February 2021 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
Fission yeast cell cycle mutants and the logic of eukaryotic cell cycle control Authors (1)Paul Nurse Molecular Biology of the Cell Published 15 December 2020 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine Authors (1) Gene Ontology Consortium Nucleic Acids Research Published 8 January 2021 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
COVID shows UK–EU collaborations are irreplaceable Authors (6) Benjamin Fernando Gordon Brown Emily Thomas Michael HeadPaul Nurse Martin Rees Nature Published 8 October 2020 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
Closed mitosis requires local disassembly of the nuclear envelope Authors (7) Gautam Dey Siân CulleyScott Curran Uwe Schmidt Ricardo Henriques Wanda Kukulski Buzz Baum Nature Published 3 September 2020 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
Science during lockdown - from virtual seminars to sustainable online communities Authors (9) Francesca Bottanelli Bruno Cadot Felix CampeloScott Curran Patricia M Davidson Gautam Dey Ishier Raote Anne Straube Matthew P Swaffer Journal of Cell Science Published 14 August 2020 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
Pandemic peak SARS-CoV-2 infection and seroconversion rates in London frontline health-care workers Authors (341) Catherine F Houlihan Nina Vora Thomas Byrne Dan LewerGavin Kelly Judith Heaney[...] Andrew Hayward Richard Gilson Gavin KellyFiona Roberts Emine Hatipoglu The Lancet Published 25 July 2020 Crick labs/ facilitiesAndreas WackKaren VousdenJernej UleJames TurnerMoritz TreeckCharles SwantonAdam SaterialeErik SahaiCaetano Reis e SousaPeter RatcliffeLucia Prieto-GodinoVenizelos PapayannopoulosAnne O’GarraPaul NurseGeorge KassiotisMaximiliano GutierrezSonia GandhiSteve GamblinPeter Cherepanov Luiz Pedro CarvalhoDominique BonnetMike BlackmanRupert BealeWorldwide Influenza CentreStructural BiologyMetabolomicsHuman Embryonic Stem CellHigh Throughput ScreeningGenetic Modification ServiceFlow CytometryFermentationExperimental HistopathologyElectron MicroscopyCell ServicesBiological Research FacilityBioinformatics and BiostatisticsAdvanced SequencingScientific computingFull details
Community curation in PomBase: enabling fission yeast experts to provide detailed, standardized, sharable annotation from research publications Authors (5) Antonia Lock Midori A Harris Kim RutherfordJacqueline Hayles Valerie Wood Database (Oxford) Published 30 April 2020 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
The hydrophobic patch directs cyclin B to centrosomes to promote global CDK phosphorylation at mitosis Authors (6)Saz BasuEmma RobertsAndrew Jones Matthew P SwafferBram SnijdersPaul Nurse Current Biology Published 9 March 2020 Crick labs/ facilitiesPaul NurseProteomicsLight MicroscopyCell ServicesAdvanced SequencingFull details
A homeostatic mechanism rapidly corrects aberrant nucleocytoplasmic ratios maintaining nuclear size in fission yeast Authors (2)Helena CantwellPaul Nurse Journal of Cell Science Published 14 November 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
Kinesin-8 and Dis1/TOG collaborate to limit spindle elongation from prophase to anaphase A for proper chromosome segregation in fission yeast Authors (4) Corinne Pinder Yuzy Matsuo Sebastian P Maurer Takashi Toda Journal of Cell Science Published 23 September 2019 Crick labsThomas SurreyPaul NurseFull details
Using genetics to understand biology Authors (2)Paul NurseJacqueline Hayles Heredity Published 1 July 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
Unravelling nuclear size control Authors (2)Helena CantwellPaul Nurse Current Genetics Published 1 December 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
Nuclear membrane protein Lem2 regulates nuclear size through membrane flow Authors (4) Kazunori KumeHelena Cantwell Alana BurrellPaul Nurse Nature Communications Published 23 April 2019 Crick labs/ facilitiesPaul NurseElectron MicroscopyFull details
Noisy cell-size-correlated expression of Cyclin B drives probabilistic cell-size homeostasis in fission yeast Authors (3) James O Patterson Paul ReesPaul Nurse Current Biology Published 19 March 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
A systematic genetic screen identifies essential factors involved in nuclear size control Authors (2)Helena CantwellPaul Nurse PLOS Genetics Published 13 February 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong Authors (2) The Gene Ontology ConsortiumJacqueline Hayles Nucleic Acids Research Published 8 January 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
PomBase 2018: user-driven reimplementation of the fission yeast database provides rapid and intuitive access to diverse, interconnected information Authors (7) Antonia Lock Kim Rutherford Midori A HarrisJacqueline Hayles Stephen G Oliver Jürg Bähler Valerie Wood Nucleic Acids Research Published 8 January 2019 Crick labsPaul NurseFull details
Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals the signaling dynamics of cell-cycle kinases in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe Authors (5) Matthew P SwafferAndrew Jones Helen R FlynnBram SnijdersPaul Nurse Cell Reports Published 10 July 2018 Crick labs/ facilitiesPaul NurseProteomicsFull details
Fission yeast telosomes: non-canonical histone-containing chromatin structures dependent on shelterin and RNA Authors (4)Jessica Greenwood Harshil Patel Thomas R Cech Julia Promisel Cooper Nucleic Acids Research Published 28 September 2018 Crick labs/ facilitiesPaul NurseBioinformatics and BiostatisticsFull details