2019
Trager award
23 November 2019
David receives William Trager award for basic parasitology: see WCAIR news, SLS news and UoD news.
New funding
11 September 2019
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award funding to support the Horn-lab: see SLS news and WCAIR news.
Allelic exclusion
9 July 2019
Joana’s work reveals how a protein complex makes a persistent parasite: see UoD news, SLS news and the Nature Communications paper.
Post-transcriptional control
25 May 2019
Anna’s work reveals co-ordinated control of mitochondrial proteins by an RNA-binding protein: see the Nucleic Acids Research paper.
2018
Gluconeogenesis
28 December 2018
Julie’s work challenges dogma, showing use of glycerol to synthesise ATP and sugars: see SLS news and PLoS Pathogens paper.
Gene editing
26 November 2018
Dundee students have posted a short video on our work.
Oxaborole target ID
5 September 2018
Richard, Eva and the team show that clinical and veterinary trypanocidal benzoxaboroles target CPSF3: see the UoD press release, SLS news and Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. paper.
Biology of Parasitism
2 July 2018
David and Joana teach a 2-week module on the BoP course in Woods Hole, USA. Also on Twitter.
Gene editing
21 May 2018
Eva’s paper on Cas9-based editing in T. brucei published in Scientific Reports.
Gene expression control
15 March 2018
New work on the impact of codon usage bias: see SLS news and the eLife paper.
2017
Melarsoprol-resistance
1 December 2017
Dundee students have posted a short video on our work.
Biology of Parasitism
24 July 2017
David and Joanna teach a 2-week module on the BoP course in Woods Hole, USA.
Eva Rico joins the team
1 May 2017
Welcome to Eva, who joins us following a post-doc in Edinburgh with Keith Matthews.
BSP: Dundee
2 April 2017
British Society for Parasitology meeting 2nd – 5th April.
David Horn, FRSE
15 February 2017
David elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh: RSE announcement, UoD news, SLS news.