Peak Proteins Welcomes Dr Tomas Adomavicius
Peak Proteins welcomes Dr Tomas Adomavicius who joins us as a Protein Purification Expert. Tomas graduated from Vilnius University in Lithuania with a BSc in Biochemistry. In his final year he screened a DNA polymerase mutant library by PCR, determined [...]
COVID-19 Update
Peak Proteins main priorities are always the health and well-being of our staff and their families. We wanted to update our clients, partners and colleagues and let them know that we are working hard to continue to deliver our services [...]
Dr Steve Harborne is Attending the International SMALP Conference
Dr Steve Harborne is looking forward to attending the International SMALP Conference on Friday 20th March. Originally sequenced to take place at the Alumni Hall, Columbia University in New York. The University has recently cancelled all events on campus because [...]
We’re Expanding into New Labs and Offices
We’ve outgrown our lab and office space. It’s served us well for the past 4 years, but with our recent new recruits, and purchase of some lovely new kit, we need more space! So, some of us are moving [...]
Dr Derek Ogg and Dr Hazel Weir are Attending the 3rd Scientific Meeting of Accelerating Cancer Drug Discovery Through Structural Biology
Dr Derek Ogg and Dr Hazel Weir are attending the 3rd Scientific Meeting of Accelerating Cancer Drug Discovery Through Structural Biology at the Francis Crick Institute in London on March 16th. The free, one-day meeting is open to anyone [...]
Perfecting Protein Analysis with Mass Spec
Peak Proteins provide intact protein and peptide mapping as a stand-alone service. All the analysis is performed on a Sciex ExionLC coupled to a Sciex X500B QTQF. Rachel Rowlinson was recently interviewed by Sciex for their Sciex Vision Journal Issue [...]
Time for an Upgrade
“We have always used SPT Labtech* equipment, but it was time for an upgrade. We were very pleased to receive the new SPT Mosquito Xtal3 and a new Dragonfly Crystal for Christmas!”, commented Dr Tina Howard, Head of Protein [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Liz Flavell
Peak Proteins welcomes Liz Flavell who joins us as a Protein Purification Specialist. Liz gained her B.Sc. in Biology from the University of York before going on to work at a public health virology laboratory. Liz later worked as a [...]
Principal Scientist in Recombinant Protein Expression
We have an exciting opportunity for a lab-based scientist with extensive experience in recombinant protein expression systems who is looking for a leading Principal Scientist role within a growing contract research organisation. Peak Proteins is a vibrant and expanding organisation [...]
Happy Birthday Mark Abbott!
Mark wanted a low key birthday but we managed to surprise him with a cake and we think we were fairly subtle about his age too!
Dr Steve Harborne is Attending the Diamond BAG Training Course
Dr Steve Harborne is attending a Diamond user block allocation group (BAG) training course at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire on December 11th and 12th. Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron, a huge scientific [...]
Dr Hazel Weir is Looking Forward to Attending SLAS 2020
Dr Hazel Weir is attending SLAS 2020. As new members of the Society, Peak Proteins is looking forward to making new connections with biotechnology companies located in the West Coast. SLAS 2020 is being held at the San Diego Convention [...]
Peak Proteins Signs Agreement with University of Leeds to Access Cryo-EM Facilities.
Peak Proteins is now in a position where, in collaboration with the University of Leeds, we would be able to talk about cryo-EM approaches with clients having entered into an agreement with the University to access their state-of-the-art cryo-EM facilities [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Evie Rejnowicz
Peak Proteins welcomes Evie Rejnowicz who joins us as an Intern student for the next 4 months. Evie will be working with Dr Steve Harborne to help develop membrane protein workflows and case studies. Her work will involve expression, [...]
Unlocking the Structure of G6b-B by Engineering of N- and O-linked Glycosylation.
Read Dr Derek J Ogg's presentation slides from the Protein Structure Determination in Industry Meeting 2019 here Unlocking the structure of G6b-B by engineering of N- and O-linked glycosylation.
Spiders vs Snakes -Discovery of Novel Snake Venom Protease Inhibitors from Spider Venom
Read the poster Venomtech and Peak Proteins presented at ELRIG 2019 here Spiders vs Snakes - Discovery of Novel Snake Venom Protease Inhibitors from Spider VenomOn working with Peak Proteins, Steven Trim BSc CBiol MRSB, Founder, Chief Scientific Officer and [...]
Peak Proteins Is Exhibiting at PSDI
Peak Proteins is delighted to be giving a presentation and exhibiting at 27th Protein Structure Determination in Industry )PSDI) meeting being held at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK. The talk is entitled “Unlocking the structure of G6b-B [...]
Peak Proteins Is Presenting at ELRIG UK 2019
Peak Proteins is delighted to have contributed to a poster at ELRIG UK 2019 titled “Spider vs Snakes – discovery of novel snake venom protease inhibitors from spider venom” in collaboration with Venomtech Limited. Mark Abbott, Hazel Weir and [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Roisin Cassidy
Peak Proteins is delighted to welcome Roisin Cassidy to the team. Roisin graduated with a MSci from The University of Manchester in summer this year. Roisin completed an integrated master’s degree in Biochemistry. During her research project she investigated the [...]
Peak Proteins Unlocks the Molecular Secrets of a Key Platelet Receptor
The previously unknown structure of the inhibitory platelet receptor, G6b-B has now been solved by Peak Proteins in complex with a glycan ligand similar to that found on perlecan. This surprisingly revealed a “head to tail” dimer around the [...]
