2016
Dr Sebastian Hutchinson
25 November 2016
Congratulations to Seb on his Ph.D. award (and Roux Fellowship award) and many thanks to his examiners, Mark Carrington and Tom Owen-Hughes.
Biology of Parasitism
5 August 2016
David and Seb teach their first module on the BoP course in Woods Hole, USA.
VEX1 controls VSG expression
23 May 2016
VEX1 controls VSG allelic exclusion and antigenic variation: see the press release and Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. paper.
Joana Faria and Julie Kovářová join the team
1 May 2016
Welcome to Joana, who just completed her Ph.D. in Porto with Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva, and Julie, who just completed her Ph.D. in Glasgow with Mike Barrett, both now joining Dundee as post-docs.
Lucy Glover now a PI at Pasteur Institute
1 March 2016
Lucy joined the lab as a Ph.D. student in 2003 and, following fantastic work ever since, is now setting-up her own lab at The Pasteur Institute in Paris.
David awarded C.A. Wright medal
24 February 2016
See the full story in University of Dundee news.
Catarina Marques joins the team
4 January 2016
Welcome to Catarina who recently completed a very successful Ph.D. in Glasgow with Richard McCulloch and now joins Dundee as a post-doc.
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Inter-organellar communication
18 August 2015
Vacuolar V-ATPase function impacts mitochondrial F-ATPase function and antikinetoplastid drug-sensitivity. See the paper in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.
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Quorum sensing decoded
1 January 2014
Collaboration reveals the factors controlling T. brucei differentiation and fly-transmission. See the paper in Nature and Edinburgh news.
2013
Novel DNA polymerase identified
1 December 2013
PPL2 is a novel DNA polymerase with a conserved function in DNA repair. See the paper in Mol. Cell., Dundee news and Sussex news.
Drug transporter verified
1 November 2013
Aquaglyceroporin 2 is the long-sought gene encoding the High-Affinity Pentamidine Transporter. See the paper in:
Featured in the Courier newspaper.
Three post-docs join the team
1 November 2013
Welcome to Laura Jeacock who just completed her Ph.D. in Edinburgh with Achim Schnaufer, Jane Wright, moving from a post-doc at the Friedrich Miescher Inst. in Switzerland with Rafal Ciosk, and Anna Trenaman, moving from a post-doc at Imperial College London with Gloria Rudenko.
Drug resistance
1 October 2013
Collaborative work links water channel to clinical melarsoprol resistance. See the paper in PLoS NTD.
Move to Dundee
1 May 2013
David moves to Dundee as Prof. of Parasite Molecular Biology and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. Lucy, Nicola and Seb move in September.
Antigenic variation work
March 2013
Antigenic variation work published in PLoS Pathogens.
Drug resistance work
February 2013
Nicola awarded Ph.D. for work on drug resistance.