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For the second consecutive year, researchers at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology have organised a series of outreach events to ignite an interest in science in Year 5 pupils at Pegasus Primary School, in Blackbird Leys, Oxford. The second outreach session of this year, entitled ‘Microscopes – peering into the invisible world’, took place on the 27th February 2019 at Pegasus School.

The Postdoc Association (PDA) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology brings together over 120 postdoctoral scientists working in the department, by providing a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas, and by giving a voice to the postdoc community while also reaching out to the rest of the department. Recently, it was announced that the current chair and co-chair of the Postdoc Associat...

Tanmay Bharat, a Group Leader at the Dunn School and a Royal Society and Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, has been awarded the 2019 EMBL John Kendrew Young Scientist Award. This competition recognises individuals who have worked at the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany) at some point of their careers and have...

The 27th Norman Heatley Lecture was delivered by Nobel laureate Sir Gregory P. Winter on 11th February 2019 at the Oxford Natural History Museum. Sir Greg Winter discussed his research on the production of antibodies suitable for therapeutic use, a new class of pharmaceutical drugs. This body of work resulted in the award of a...

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) has bestowed one of their highest honours, the SLAS Innovation Award 2019, on Cristian Soitu who is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford (Harris Manchester College). This internationally-renowned award, which comes with a personal $10,000 cash prize, was open to scientists from both academia and...

The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology is launching the 2019 Summer Studentship Program. This program is aimed at undergraduate students excited about research in life sciences and looking for a hands-on experience.

The winners of the Dunn School Bioimaging Facility Awards 2018 were announced at the department’s annual Symposium on the 7th of January 2019. This yearly imaging competition hosted by the Dunn School Bioimaging Facility managers, Dr. Errin Johnson (Electron Microscopy) and Dr. Alan Wainman (Light Microscopy), allows researchers to showcase their most beautiful, interesting and...

With Christmas spirit at its peak, our department awarded for the first time the Good Citizen Prize. Conceived by the anti-bullying team, the novel method empowers even the most British of us to unreservedly express appreciation for our colleagues. With a reassuring blend of light-heartedness and formality, the prize has encouraged members of the Dunn...

Three Sir William Dunn School of Pathology groups participated in the event ‘Super Science Saturday: Micro world’ on Saturday 24th November at Oxford’s Museum of Natural History. Over 3000 people attended the four-hour event, where 14 stalls covering a range of bacterial-related topics occupied most of the ground floor of the museum. The outreach activity...

This Friday, 14th December, the Dunn School is flying a replica of the Oxford Women’s Suffrage Society banner to commemorate a key milestone in the history of women’s voting rights in the UK.

Following the annual tradition each winter, the legendary Dunn School Christmas party for all the department’s staff members and students was held on Friday 7th December. This year it was efficiently organised by members of the Dushek, van der Merwe, Brown and Carvalho groups. The Dunn School library was the first to transform...

Professor Pedro Carvalho, group leader at the Dunn School has won one of the 2018 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants, which were announced on the 29th of November. The prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants are aimed towards mid-career scientists (7-12 years since the completion of their PhD) who intend to establish or strengthen their research groups. This year, only 12% of the 2389...

Maria Leptin, director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and visiting professor at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, led a series of workshops on grant writing on November 1st, 2018. Over the course of the day, around 60 Dunn School students and postdocs attended different workshops centred around applying for...

Dunn School group leader Professor Keith Gull was honoured with a Satellite Symposium to celebrate his exceptional work on protozoan parasites. The Brazilian Society of Protozoology held the Symposium at the Hotel Gloria in Caxambu, Brazil on the 5th of November 2018.

The Dunn School’s commitment to tackling bullying was celebrated with a friendly morning coffee on Friday 16th November, coinciding with the end of National Anti-Bullying week. Over 100 students and staff members got together in the combination room to enjoy coffee, tea and bite-size cakes with their peers. The highlight of the event...