Monika Gullerova receives grant award from Jesus College
March 2016
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...
Professor Joan Steitz delivers Heatley Lecture
March 2016
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 awarded Marie Curie Fellowship
February 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...
Dunn School Head reflects on Penicillin Anniversary and Birth of the Antibiotic Era
February 2016
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...
Winners of inaugural Dunn School Bioimaging Awards announced
January 2016
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 receives Wellcome Trust Investigator Award
January 2016
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...
Laura Makin wins poster prize at UKEV Forum meeting
December 2015
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...
Eleanor Minney and Mariette Moor win 2015 Dunn School Art Prize
December 2015
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...
Ulrike Gruneberg shines spotlight on studying science at workshop for school children
December 2015
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 wins Meningitis Research Foundation Conference Poster prize
November 2015
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 granted MRC Career Development Award
November 2015
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 open for DPhil in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine
November 2015
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...
£17 million funding to develop HIV vaccine secured by consortium including the Dunn School’s Quentin Sattentau
November 2015
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...
‘Infectious disease: are we in control?’ seminar video now available
November 2015
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...
Dunn School gains Athena SWAN Silver Award
October 2015
The Dunn School of Pathology has been granted the Athena SWAN Silver award in the September 2015 awards round. The award is in recognition of the department’s ongoing commitment and progress in advancing the careers of women researchers in the department. Matthew Freeman, Head of Department said: “this scheme helps ensure the...