The folding of Paper Cranes: DNA Origami Technology Explained by Dunn School Student in Science Communication Competition Regional Final
March 2017
Using a paper crane as a prop Fodor lab DPhil student Bernadeta Dadonaite explained the potential of DNA origami technology to a capacity audience at the FameLab 2017 regional final at the Bullingdon bar and club in Oxford on 8 March. FameLab helps communicate science to the general public in digestible three-minute competitive performances...
When Pegasus met Penicillin – Dunn School workshop for local primary school hailed as “brilliant success”
February 2017
A “brilliant success” was the feedback on an interactive workshop about penicillin held for school children from the Pegasus Primary School at the Dunn School on Wednesday 22 February. The “Penicillin, from mould to medicines” workshop, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and British Pharmacological Society and supported by the Bodleia...
Dunn School flies Rainbow Flag for LGBT History Month
February 2017
The Dunn School is proudly flying the Rainbow Flag during LGBT History Month. Resources and further information: LGBT History Month 2017, UAS Equality and Diversity: https://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/eop/sexualorientation/lgbthm/ Oxford LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) group: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/oxford-lgbt-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-group
Australian immunologist and Dunn School alumnus Graham Mayrhofer – obituary
February 2017
Australian immunologist and Dunn School alumnus Graham Mayrhofer has died aged 73 whilst on holiday in Turkey with his wife, on 9 October 2016.
Obstacles still in way of gender equality in UK science
February 2017
Cultural and societal pressures are still preventing female scientists getting to the top in UK science Dunn School postdoc Sonia Muliyil claims in an Oxfordshire TV piece filmed in South Parks Road, Oxford on Friday 10 February.
Proudfoot lab celebrates internationalism as Russian postdoc awarded European Commission grant
February 2017
Group Leader Nick Proudfoot continues to celebrate the internationalism of his lab following the award of a European Commission grant to Russian born postdoc Inna Zukher in January 2017. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions individual fellowship award, part of the EU Horizon 2020 programme, will provide 2 years’ funding for Inna’s research project at the Dunn School,...
Gull Group deliver parasites workshop to build research skills in Ghana
January 2017
Postdocs Richard Wheeler, Jack Sunter and Samuel Dean from the Gull Group, joined Group Leader Keith Gull to help deliver a molecular cell biology workshop and build research skills at the University of Ghana from 16 – 27 January. The workshop titled “Molecular Cell Biology of Protozoan Parasites” is the latest development in a long-standing...
2016 Dunn School Bioimaging Awards winners announced
January 2017
The winners of the Dunn School Bioimaging Facility Awards 2016 have been announced at the Departmental Symposium held on 9 January 2017 in the University of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Teaching Centre Lecture Theatre. The Dunn School’s Professor Pedro Carvalho, Dr Marion Brown and Deputy Finance Manager, Audra Giles judged this year’s competition....
2016 Dunn School Christmas party raffle raises record amount for charity
January 2017
The 2016 Dunn School Christmas raffle raised a departmental record of £1,740.35 for charity, organisers confirmed on 10 January 2017. Party hosts, the Freeman and Baena-Lopez labs, ran the raffle raising funds for Oxford based learning disability and autism charity, Yellow Submarine. Yellow Submarine, Co-Director Kate Sankey said: “The Dunn School’s...
‘Molecular Cell’ profiles two Dunn School researchers on publication of Transcription and RNA processing paper
January 2017
Two Proudfoot Group rising stars have been profiled in Molecular Cell to coincide with their research paper, Distinctive Patterns of Transcription and RNA Processing for Human lincRNAs, being a featured article in the current edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal published on 5 January 2017. In a broad ranging interview the paper’s two first authors,...
Biomarker spinout founded by Dunn School alumni holds successful flotation on AIM
December 2016
Oxford Biodynamics, a biomarker company set up by former Dunn School researchers Dr Alexandre Akoulitchev and Dr Aroul Ramadass, completed a successful flotation on AIM, the London Stock Exchange’s international market for smaller growing companies, on 6 December 2016.
Gull lab alumnus secures EMBO grant for Prague research group
December 2016
Former Gull Lab Post-doc Vladimír Varga has secured a grant to support setting up his laboratory in the Czech Republic, EMBO announced on 12 December 2016.
No female applicants shock prompts Dunn School STEM for girls’ event
December 2016
A STEM for girls’ event was held at the Dunn School on the evening of 14 December 2016, following the “shock” of zero female applicants for an electrical apprenticeship position advertised earlier in the year. The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers event was attended by 36 fourteen to sixteen year old...
Grant towards consumables costs boosts Gullerova Group research
December 2016
A grant towards consumables costs for the project “RNA dependent DNA Damage response” has been made to Dunn School Group Leader Monika Gullerova and postdoc Kaspar Burger it was announced in a letter from the Rosetrees Trust dated 1 December 2016.
Flies in space explained at Super Science Saturday
November 2016
Children were wowed about flies being in space as Dunn School researchers introduced the science behind space-based fly experiments at a “Super Science Saturday” event at Oxford University Museum of Natural History on 26 November 2016. The theme of the event was “Science behind the Headlines” and Raff lab members Metta Pratt, Lisa Gartenmann and...