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Chris Tang’s group have discovered a natural temperature sensor in a type of bacteria that causes meningitis and blood poisoning. The sensor allows the bacteria to evade the body’s immune response, leading to life-threatening infections. Chris said: ‘These infections are extremely dangerous to vulnerable groups, particularly young children, and can cause blindness, brain....

Congratulations to Susan Lea who has been appointed to the Statutory Chair of Microbiology, from 1 October 2013. This prestigious University professorship comes with a fellowship at Wadham College. Matthew Freeman, Head of Department, said: ‘Her appointment reflects her outstanding scientific achievements as well as her key strategic value to the Dunn School...

The Dunn School is delighted to announce that Paul Fairchild has received an Excellent Teacher Award in recognition of his talent, enthusiasm and commitment to teaching. The 2013 Medical Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards are run by the Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford. Paul will receive his award at an awards...

Herman has received this prestigous funding award for his project titled ‘Paris-physician aided reconstitution of the immune system.’  ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains.

Congratulations to Nick who has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to support his potentially ground-breaking research into ‘Policing mammalian transcriptomes: regulation of long ncRNA syntheses by transcriptional termination, gene loops and R-loops.‘

A Dunn School staff member is helping build the skills of young African scientists when he visited Ghana to deliver a workshop from 17 – 29 June. Course organiser and lecturer, Richard Wheeler,  lectured on trypanosomes at the ASCB two week workshop on the molecular and cellular biology of pathogens. Student, Bright Azumah, said of the...

The Dunn School is delighted to hear the news of Anton’s award for his research into immune recognition by non-catalytic tyrosine phosphorylated receptors.

Ivan has secured a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship to fund research into protein poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in genome stability and disease. We look forward to welcoming Ivan and his group to the Dunn School in the autumn.

Fumiko has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship to try to answer the question: how do proliferating human cells maintain genome integrity? Congratulations.

The award is supporting the research of Matthew’s group into the control of signalling by members of the rhomboid-like superfamily. Senior Investigator Awards support exceptional, world-class researchers, so congratulations to all our recent recipients of the award.

Joining Dragana Ahel in the OMPI building from 1 September, will be research groups led by her husband, Ivan Ahel (also joining the Dunn School from Manchester), Ulrike Grüneberg (transferring from Biochemistry), and a current Dunn School group led by Monika Gullerova.

Congratulations to Monika Gullerova on her recent John Fell Main Award.  This will fund a postdoc position in her laboratory starting sometime this year.

Many congratulations to Susan Lea on her Wellcome Senior investigator Award.

Congratulations to Monica Martinez Alonso (Fodor lab) who has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to study the interplay between the influenza virus and host transcriptional machineries.

Congratulations to Bungo Akiyoshi (Gull lab) who has been awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. Dr Akiyoshi will be studying chromosome segregation, a mechanism that occurs in all living cells each time they divide. Errors in this process lead to birth defects and diseases such as cancer. By studying the mechanism in the parasitic organism Trypanosoma...