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Once in a while Dunn School researchers get the opportunity to get out the lab and into the community to bring science to the masses – explaining the importance of their research and inspiring the next generation of young scientists. Many youngsters are wowed by what they see and hear...

Members of the Freeman Group are celebrating following grant awards in March. Adam Grieve and Kyo Ikeda both were awarded Marie-Curie Fellowships and Sonia Muliyil was successful in her grant application to the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).  ‘Discovering the signalling pathways and physiology of active rhomboid proteases in the brain’ is...

Carolin Müller from the Nieduszynski group won the prize for best talk at the British Yeast Group meeting in Manchester on 25th to 27th March. Carolin’s winning talk was titled ‘Comparative genomics of chromosome replication’.

The Dunn School’s Dr Fumiko Esashi has been awarded the title of Associate Professor in this year’s University of Oxford Recognition of Distinction exercise. The decision by the divisional panel recognises Fumiko’s distinction in her field and her contributions to research, teaching and administration at the Dunn School.

Local school children have been wowed by the wonders of DNA during workshops led by a Dunn School researcher as part of British Science Week (13 – 22 March). Dr Sue Mei Tan-Wong from the Proudfoot group delivered two workshops at St Nicholas Primary School in Old Marston in Oxford on...

Dunn School group leader Monika Gullerova has been awarded a Hugh Price Fellowship at Jesus College following a successful application and interview earlier this month. The award, tenable for three years in the first instance, recognises Monika as a successful early-mid career researcher of clear academic distinction. Monika’s group aims to...

The Dunn School’s Metta Pratt has been actively involved in public engagement this week, helping deliver a workshop at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th March. The DNA workshop for ‘A’ level Biology students entitled ‘A question of taste’ enabled students to analyse and compare their version of...

The 2014 Dunn School Art prize has been jointly awarded to Emma Papworth and Julia Sklar at an unveiling of their winning pieces at the Dunn School on Friday 6 March 2015.  A sculptural deconstructed canvas created by Emma Papworth (The Queen’s College) a final year student at the Ruskin School...

Oxford scientists Dr. Ulrike Gruneberg (Dunn School of Pathology), Professors Bela Novak and Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry) together with Dr. Helfried Hochegger at the University of Sussex and Dr. Chris Bakal at the ICR, London, have been awarded a £3m prestigious BBSRC strategic LoLa grant to investigate fundamental questions about mammalian cell cycle controls....

Sixth form students are being invited to think about global health challenges in an essay writing competition launched by Oxford Global Health Group (OGHG) and the Dunn School. The students must pen 1,250 words in answer to the question: “What lessons have we learnt from the past century that should shape the solutions...

Professor Shona Murphy has received a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award in the latest funding round.  The award will support her project: ‘The point of no return: a novel poly(A)-associated elongation checkpoint controlling gene expression.’ The award acknowledges Shona as an exceptional, world-class researcher who is a leader in her field.

Members of the department have been busy fundraising for local charities during the festive season, whilst getting into the Christmas spirit. The Lea Lab raised £1,464 for the Silver Star Society by running a raffle at this year’s Christmas party on Tuesday 16 December.   The raffle’s success was largely due...

The Dunn School were winners at the prestigious British Pharmacological Society awards at a reception at the House of Commons last night. The award, presented to Professors Susan Lea and Chris Tang by Andrew Miller MP, was in recognition of the School’s contribution to the discovery and development of medicines. ...

Postdoc Sonia Muliyil from the Freeman Group has been awarded an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship in the latest funding round. The award is to support her research into ER associated degradation and iRhoms in the nervous system.

Narin Hengrung, a postdoc in Ervin Fodor’s group, has been awarded a Goodger Scholarship to work on the influenza virus RNA polymerase. Goodger Scholarships are awarded by the University of Oxford to assist research into the causes and prevention of disease in its early stages.