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May 2014
Human serum RNAi screen published in PLoS Pathogens.
- PLoS Pathogens press release “How some trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness while others don’t”
- LSHTM news “New insights into drug targets for sleeping sickness”
- Wellcome Trust news “New insights into drug targets for sleeping sickness”
September 2012
Dave promoted to Professor of Molecular Parasitology
June 2012
Drug cross-resistance work published in PNAS and featured in:
June 2012
Sam Alsford awarded Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund Fellowship
January 2012
Drug resistance screens published in Nature.
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Also featured in:
- Nature News & Views
- LSHTM press release “Genetic screens bring new hope for tackling sleeping sickness”
- Sanger Institute press release “Genetic screens bring new hope for tackling sleeping sickness”
- Wellcome Trust news “Genetics study boosts search for better ways to treat human African trypanosomiasis”
- New Scientist “Sleeping sickness tests may identify better therapies”
- The Scientist “Interfering with resistance”
- SciDev.Net “Sleeping sickness drug resistance mechanism identified”
- Voice of America “Scientists develop tool to unmask sleeping sickness resistance”
- BioWorld International “Scientists find ‘revolutionary’ technique to probe resistance”
- Faculty of 1000
April 2011
Sam Alsford wins prize for best talk by a post-doc at Kinetoplast Molecular Cell Biology Meeting, Woods Hole, USA.
High-throughput RIT-seq phenotyping work in Genome Research
Featured by:
- Nature Biotechnology “RNAi phenotyping in trypanosomes”.
- Nature Methods “Understanding sleeping sickness”.
- Nature Reviews Microbiology “Genome sequencing gets func‑y”.
- Faculty of 1000
- Data available at Tritryp Database
- Data incorporated into TDR Targets Database and iNTRODB (for drug-target prioritisation)
Summer 2008
Lucy Glover – Garnham award winner “best student to graduate that year”.
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- PLoS Pathogens (Associate Editor)
- Molecular Microbiology
- Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
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KMCBM in Wooods Hole, USA: 2013
Selected Invited Talks
2013
Nov: Atlanta, USA: ASTMH course
Nov: Royal Soc., London: Galton Inst. Conference
Sept: Arcachon, France: ParaMet annual meeting
Sept: Uni. Of Sussex: Soc. Gen. Microbiol. meeting
May: ZMBH, Heidelberg, Germany: DKFZ-ZMBH colloquium
Mar: Pasteur Institute: Paris
Feb: Bangkok, Thailand: British High Commission & EU: Antimicrobial resistance
Jan: Leysin, Switzerland: 30th Annual Swiss trypanosomatid meeting
2012
Nov: Uni. of Kiel, Germany
Sep: Rockefeller Uni, USA: Symposium in honour of George Cross
Sep: LSHTM: Emerging paradigms in anti-infective drug design
Aug: CR-UK: Cambridge Research Institute: From phenotypes to pathways
July: Cambridge: Symposium in honour of George Cross
Jun: Rhode Island, USA: Gordon research conference
May: Universität Würzburg, Germany
Feb: Harvard School of Public Health. USA
2011
May: López-Neyra Institute, Granada, Spain
Apr: Woods Hole, USA: Kinetoplast MCB conference
Mar: Oxford: RNAi 2011 conference
Jan: Cavli International Center: Royal. Soc. Subtelomere Meeting