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Dr. Mustafa Aydogan is sure to make a strong impression. Years ago, when I first knew Mustafa to be a graduate student in the year above me, I watched him present his research in one of our department’s Progress Seminars. Afterwards, I couldn’t help but think that Mustafa was actually already a professor, and it...

Held annually, the Bioimaging Facility Awards is the competition at the Dunn School that never fails to impress. This competition gives participants the liberty to demonstrate their microscopy skills and showcase the beauty of the organisms or cells that they work with by using the incredible equipment that is provided here at the Bioimaging Facility....

Hannah Mischo, a postdoc and former DPhil student in Nick Proudfoot’s group, is starting her own research group in the Department of Infectious Diseases at King’s College, London, in February 2020. Launching the new group was made possible thanks to the Henry Dale Career Development Award, a highly competitive fellowship offered by both The Royal...

The Dunn School of Pathology held its annual hit Christmas party on Friday, 13th of December, a week before it closes for the well-earned holiday. The party was organised by the group of Fumiko Esashi and the group of Monica Gullerova, who made sure the holiday spirit was well in place for the party. Prof....

The 2019 Teaching Excellence Awards ceremony saw Dunn School’s Professor David Greaves and Dr Paul Fairchild rewarded for their dedication and hard work within the Medical Sciences Division.

As of October 2019, Dr. Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula is an assistant professor and group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IBMiB) at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Before then, Kinga was a postdoc in Professor Nick Proudfoot’s lab at the Dunn School.

As part of National Anti-Bullying Week, the Dunn School emphasized its commitment towards addressing issues of bullying and harassment in the workplace by gathering the department together for an afternoon coffee on Tuesday the 12th of November. During the event, students and staff enjoyed refreshments and snacks, and engaged in exercises discussing hypothetical...

Former Dunn School postdoc, Dr Michael Boemo, has opened his independent research group in the University of Cambridge on the 1st of November, 2019.  

Dr. Andreia Albuquerque Wendt was selected as a recipient of the C.C. Wang Prize in Molecular Parasitology for her outstanding performance at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Biology of Parasitism (BoP) course that ran from 15th June to 4th August 2019 in Woods Hole, MA. The $2000 prize was established this year by...

The Dunn School welcomed a new cohort of graduate students to the department on Monday 7th October 2019.

In solidarity with school strikes for climate around the globe, Dunn School students and staff took part in a rally and demonstration in Oxford city centre on 20 September.  The City of Oxford joined the list of thousands of cities and towns worldwide joining the strike, with a protest led by the UK Student...

This week from the 16thto the 21stof September, the Dunn School’s Postdoc Association (PDA) worked with the department to celebrate Postdoc Appreciation Week for the first time.

Maria Karabova, a DPhil student from the James Lab, was awarded the poster prize at the Oxford Network Dementia Research Day 2019, held by Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) at Reading University on 31st July 2019. This event gathers scientists for a series of talks by researchers from the dementia research labs based in the Thames...

In the summer of 2019, the Dunn School is participating in UNIQ+, a pilot summer school at the University of Oxford aimed at expanding access to postgraduate education in the UK. In addition, the Dunn school is also running its own summer programme, which has also started this year. 

Building on the success of last year’s programme the Dunn School ran another series of outreach events at Pegasus Primary School in Blackbird Leys during the 2018–2019 academic year. The programme aims to make the wonderful world of science accessible to the pupils and to promote the children’s curiosity for scientific topics.