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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...

Monika Gullerova has been awarded The Major Research Grant by Jesus College in March 2016.  The award provides funding for ChIP-seq and RNA-seq sequencing costs for the project: “Phosphorylated nuclear Dicer in DNA damage response”. Monika’s research hopes to further scientists’ understanding into DNA repair, as she explains:  “Ever...

The Dunn School enthusiastically welcomed Professor Joan Steitz to the department when she presented the prestigious Norman Heatley Lecture on 1 March 2016.

Ian Gibbs-Seymour, a postdoc in Ivan Ahel’s group, has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in the latest funding round. His project titled: ‘Regulation of ADP-ribosylation signalling in the DNA damage response’ hopes to unveil insights into ADP-ribosylation signalling, genome maintenance pathways and disease prevention. Ian said: “The project will allow me...

February 12th marks the 75th anniversary of the first therapeutic dose of penicillin being administered to Albert Alexander in 1941, a policeman in the Radcliffe Infirmary on Woodstock Road. Its link to the penicillin story has given the Dunn School one of the permanent top spots in the annals of biomedical history.  Head...

The winners of the Dunn School Bioimaging Facility Awards 2015 have been announced with the winning images featuring in a departmental calendar available from January 2016.  Dr Alan Wainman, Light Microscopy Facility Manager, and Dr Errin Johnson, Electron Microscopy Facility Manager, shortlisted the images for the inaugural awards, with the final selection being...

Conrad Nieduszynski has been awarded an Investigator Award in the latest Wellcome Trust grant-funding round for a project that aims to further scientists’ understanding of the mechanisms behind disease.  Conrad’s pioneering project titled: “How does a cell complete genome replication?” will rely on revolutionary single-molecule technologies with the aim of determ...

PhD student Laura Makin from the Gluenz group has won first prize in the poster competition at the Second UK Extracellular Vesicle (UKEV) forum meeting on 15 December at Cardiff University.  Laura’s poster “Are vesicles from the Leishmania flagellum a source of virulence factors” was selected from a strong field of entries from students...

The 2015 Dunn School Art prize has been jointly awarded to Eleanor Minney and Mariette Moor with Lucy Gregory as runner up. All are third year students from The Ruskin School of Art. Eleanor Minney’s two works in the medium of pencil, ink and mixed collage on tracing paper explore the theme of the...

The Dunn School’s Ulrike Gruneberg helped inspire school children to consider university study and career options in science, when she delivered a workshop at the Museum of Natural History in Oxford on 3 December 2015. The ‘Cells in the Spotlight’ workshop was well received by more than 200 ‘A’ level biology students from schools...

Hayley Lavender from the Tang group has won first prize in the poster competition at the Meningitis Research Foundation’s tenth international conference at The Royal Society in London on 5 November. Hayley’s poster “Competition between host molecules influences susceptibility to meningococcal disease” was selected by the judging panel because of its high scientific...

Edward Hutchinson from the Fodor group has been granted an MRC Career Development Award in the October 2015 funding round. The award will support research into applying proteomics to the molecular biology of influenza viruses. Ed’s proposal, developed in collaboration with Oxford’s Central Proteomics Facility, will investigate how variations in influenza...

Applications are now open for the prestigious Wellcome Trust funded 4 year PhD programme in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine. The application closing deadline is 8 january 2016, with interviews being held 27 – 29 January at the Dunn School or via Skype / teleconference for international applicants.  For further information...

A new €23 (million  £17 million) initiative to accelerate the search for an effective HIV vaccine has begun and includes research funding for Professor Quentin Sattentau at The Dunn School.  Financed by the European Commission, the European AIDS Vaccine Initiative(EAVI2020) brings together leading HIV researchers from public organisations and biotech companies fr...

A video is now available of the seminar ‘Infectious disease: are we in control?’ given by Visiting Professor Jeffrey Almond at the Oxford Martin School on 27 October 2015. Jeffrey’s lecture takes a thought provoking look at current global challenges posed to the control of infectious disease by: the HIV pandemic; the alarming...