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  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...

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...