{"id":230,"date":"2023-10-12T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/david-horn\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:37:29","slug":"2014-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/david-horn\/news\/2014-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 &#8211; 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2014<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Human serum RNAi screen published in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24830321\"><em>PLoS Pathogens<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2014\/05\/140515173503.htm\">PLoS Pathogens press release<\/a>\u00a0\u201cHow some trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness while others don\u2019t\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/2014\/sleeping_sickness_new_insights.html\">LSHTM news<\/a>\u00a0\u201cNew insights into drug targets for sleeping sickness\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/News\/Media-office\/Press-releases\/2014\/WTP056457.htm\">Wellcome Trust news<\/a>\u00a0\u201cNew insights into drug targets for sleeping sickness\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave promoted to Professor of Molecular Parasitology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">June 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Drug cross-resistance work published in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22711816\">PNAS<\/a>&nbsp;and featured in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/2012\/gene_clue_to_drug_resistance_in_sleeping_sickness.html\">Wellcome Trust news<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/2012\/gene_clue_to_drug_resistance_in_sleeping_sickness.html\">LSHTM news<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/news\/headline_236418_en.html\">Uni. of Glasgow news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">June 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Alsford awarded Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund Fellowship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Drug resistance screens published in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22278056\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>.<br>Listen to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/newsevents\/multimedia\/podcasts\/2012\/multi_tasking_gene_analyser.html\">Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also featured in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22318598.1\"><em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0News &amp; Views<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/2012\/genetic_screens_bring_new_hope_for_tackling_sleeping_sickness.html\">LSHTM press release<\/a>\u00a0\u201cGenetic screens bring new hope for tackling sleeping sickness\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanger.ac.uk\/about\/press\/2012\/120125.html\">Sanger Institute press release<\/a>\u00a0\u201cGenetic screens bring new hope for tackling sleeping sickness\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/News\/2012\/News\/WTVM054226.htm\">Wellcome Trust news<\/a>\u00a0\u201cGenetics study boosts search for better ways to treat human African trypanosomiasis\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21393-sleeping-sickness-tests-may-identify-better-therapies.html\">New Scientist<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSleeping sickness tests may identify better therapies\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-scientist.com\/2012\/06\/01\/interfering-with-resistance\/\">The Scientist<\/a>\u00a0\u201cInterfering with resistance\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scidev.net\/en\/sub-suharan-africa\/news\/sleeping-sickness-drug-resistance-mechanism-identified.html\">SciDev.Net<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSleeping sickness drug resistance mechanism identified\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/news\/health\/Scientists-Develop-Tool-to-Unmask-Sleeping-Sickness-Resistance-138165194.html\">Voice of America<\/a>\u00a0\u201cScientists develop tool to unmask sleeping sickness resistance\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioworld.com\/content\/scientists-find-revolutionary-technique-probe-resistance\">BioWorld International<\/a>\u00a0\u201cScientists find \u2018revolutionary\u2019 technique to probe resistance\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/f1000.com\/\">Faculty of 1000<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">April 2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Alsford wins prize for best talk by a post-doc at Kinetoplast Molecular Cell Biology Meeting, Woods Hole, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High-throughput RIT-seq phenotyping work in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/sites\/entrez\/21363968\"><em>Genome Research<\/em><\/a><br>Featured by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nbt\/journal\/v29\/n4\/pdf\/nbt.1853.pdf\">Nature Biotechnology<\/a>\u00a0\u201cRNAi phenotyping in trypanosomes\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v8\/n5\/pdf\/nmeth0511-370b.pdf\">Nature Methods<\/a>\u00a0\u201cUnderstanding sleeping sickness\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nrmicro\/journal\/v9\/n6\/pdf\/nrmicro2583.pdf\">Nature Reviews Microbiology<\/a>\u00a0\u201cGenome sequencing gets func\u2011y\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/f1000.com\/\">Faculty of 1000<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tritrypdb.org\/tritrypdb\/\">Tritryp Database<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data incorporated into\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tdrtargets.org\/\">TDR Targets Database<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bi.cs.titech.ac.jp\/introdb\/\">iNTRODB<\/a>\u00a0(for drug-target prioritisation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summer 2008<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucy Glover \u2013 Garnham award winner \u201cbest student to graduate that year\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Current Funding<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/\">The Wellcome Trust<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.uk\/index.htm\">The Medical Research Council<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editorial Boards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plospathogens.org\/home.action\"><em>PLoS Pathogens<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Associate Editor)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/%28ISSN%291365-2958\"><em>Molecular Microbiology<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/molecular-and-biochemical-parasitology\"><em>Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Member of Programme Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>KMCBM in Wooods Hole, USA: 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected Invited Talks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov: Atlanta, USA: ASTMH course<br>Nov: Royal Soc., London: Galton Inst. Conference<br>Sept: Arcachon, France: ParaMet annual meeting<br>Sept: Uni. Of Sussex: Soc. Gen. Microbiol. meeting<br>May: ZMBH, Heidelberg, Germany: DKFZ-ZMBH colloquium<br>Mar: Pasteur Institute: Paris<br>Feb: Bangkok, Thailand: British High Commission &amp; EU: Antimicrobial resistance<br>Jan: Leysin, Switzerland: 30th Annual Swiss trypanosomatid meeting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2012<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov: Uni. of Kiel, Germany<br>Sep: Rockefeller Uni, USA: Symposium in honour of George Cross<br>Sep: LSHTM: Emerging paradigms in anti-infective drug design<br>Aug: CR-UK: Cambridge Research Institute: From phenotypes to pathways<br>July: Cambridge: Symposium in honour of George Cross<br>Jun: Rhode Island, USA: Gordon research conference<br>May: Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg, Germany<br>Feb: Harvard School of Public Health. USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2011<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>May: L\u00f3pez-Neyra Institute, Granada, Spain<br>Apr: Woods Hole, USA: Kinetoplast MCB conference<br>Mar: Oxford: RNAi 2011 conference<br>Jan: Cavli International Center: Royal. Soc. Subtelomere Meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2014 Human serum RNAi screen published in&nbsp;PLoS Pathogens. 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