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Building scientific research capacity skills in Ghana continues to progress with the visit of Dunn School Group Leader Professor Keith Gull and Postdoc Jack Sunter in July 2016.  Keith is addressing government ministers and university heads, and Jack is running a workshop during their 10-day visit, building on previous visits to develop scientific research...

The battle between the body’s ‘bad’ and ‘good’ bacteria is coming under the lens in a two-year Meningitis Now funded research project headed by Christoph Tang and Rachel Exley, with support from Errin Johnson, launched in June 2016. In the project titled: ‘Understanding the biology of Neisseria cinerea for the prevention of meningococcal disease’...

Deciphering the processes regulating cell fate and genomic stability is the challenge the Dunn School’s Ivan Ahel, in collaboration with Professor Goran Landberg from Gothenburg University, will be focusing on in a major six year project funded by Cancer Research UK starting in September 2016. The project “Understanding the function of MACROD1 and...

The Dunn School’s environmental credentials have been recognised with the award of Bronze accreditation in the Green Impact category at the Sustainability Showcase 2016 at the Blatvatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, on 15 June. Facilities Manager Jonathan Hawkins, and Head of Workshops Peter Stroud accepted the award on behalf of the department....

The success of an interactive on-line learning platform developed by Dunn School researchers was recognised at the 2016 OxTALENT Competition awards ceremony at the Oxford Martin School on 14 June.  Professor William James and Dr Kenny Moore (James group) and Dr Aartjan te Velthuis (Fodor group), with the support of Jon Mason from the...

Professor Chris Tang from the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology discussed the significance of the Dunn School in the development of penicillin – the ‘wonder drug’ against infectious disease - during a panel interview for the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘In Our Time’ on 9 June. 

Dunn School staff received glowing praise from students for their commitment to teaching in the Oxford University Student Union teaching awards presented in Trinity term 2016. Shortlisted winners Paul Fairchild, Chris Norbury and Duncan Howie attended the awards gala at Oxford Town Hall on 3 May. Student feedback was glowing for all three...

  The stage is set for revolutionary advances in medicine and biotechnology it is claimed, following substantial investment in cryo-electron microscopy in Oxford awarded by the Wellcome Trust in its April 2016 funding round. The Collaborative Award in Science, headed by the Dunn School’s Susan Lea, has been made to a cross...

New Dunn School group leader Pedro Carvalho has secured Wellcome Trust funding for research into ER-associated protein degradation, in the April 2016 funding round. Pedro’s project looks at how our body, at a sub-cellular level, is able to identify and degrade proteins that may cause disease such as atherosclerosis and cancer. All...

It is hoped a better understanding and treatment of autoimmunity will be the outcome of research by Oreste Acuto following a grant award from the Wellcome Trust in April 2016, building on a decade of support from the organisation.  Oreste’s project, titled: “ Initiation, dynamic control and long-term consequences of T cell antigen receptor signalling:...

Primary school children were wowed and excited by a ‘Space Invaders’ science workshop delivered by the Proudfoot lab’s Sue Mei Tan-Wong and Claudia Riberio de Almeida at St Nicholas Primary School in Marston on 16 March.  The microbiology and immunology workshop delivered to year 4 and year 6 pupils was part of British...

“Bioengineering for vaccine development” is the focus of an innovative research project by the Sattentau group launched in April 2016 and funded by the BBSRC. Protein oxidation is a double-edged sword that may trigger immune-mediated disorders such as allergy and cardiovascular disease, but may potentially be harnessed for human benefit, such as in...

Furthering the understanding of genome replication is critical to advancing insights into the mechanisms behind genomic disorders such as cancer, and the Nieduszynski group has secured funding from the Biotecchnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to do just that.  Their innovative project to develop single molecule analysis of genome replication is to be...

Keith Gull, Professor of Molecular Biology at the Dunn School and Principal of St Edmund Hall, is to receive the 2017 Biochemical Society Award at the Society’s conference next year.

Kids had a fun time learning about fly genetics after attending an activity led by the Dunn School’s Metta Pratt at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on 12 March 2016. Children from 4 – 12 years identified genetic differences in flies under the microscope, conducted a bang behavioral test to identify...