{"id":413,"date":"2023-11-06T15:38:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/david-horn\/?page_id=413"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:38:12","slug":"2019-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/david-horn\/news\/2019-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 &#8211; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trager award<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>23 November 2019<br>David receives William Trager award for basic parasitology: see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wcair.dundee.ac.uk\/david-horn-receives-william-trager-award-at-astmh-annual-meeting\/\"><em>W<\/em>CAIR news<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2019\/nov\/20\/award-recognises-%E2%80%98transformative%E2%80%99-research\">SLS news<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2019\/award-recognises-transformative-research.php\">UoD news<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New funding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>11 September 2019<br>Wellcome Trust Investigator Award funding to support the Horn-lab: see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2019\/sep\/6\/%C2%A321-million-wellcome-investigator-award-dundee-scientist\">SLS news<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wcair.dundee.ac.uk\/wcair-deputy-director-receives-2-1-million-wellcome-investigator-award\/\">WCAIR news<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allelic exclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>9 July 2019<br>Joana\u2019s work reveals how a protein complex makes a persistent parasite: see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2019\/protein-discovery-could-pave-way-for-parasite-research.php\">UoD news<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2019\/jul\/9\/protein-discovery-could-pave-way-parasite-research\">SLS news<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-10823-8\"><em>Nature Communications<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Post-transcriptional control<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>25 May 2019<br>Anna\u2019s work reveals co-ordinated control of mitochondrial proteins by an RNA-binding protein: see&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/31127277\">Nucleic Acids Research<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gluconeogenesis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>28 December 2018<br>Julie\u2019s work challenges dogma, showing use of glycerol to synthesise ATP and sugars: see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2018\/dec\/28\/horn-lab-challenge-trypanosome-energy-production-dogma\">SLS news<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30589893\"><em>PLoS Pathogens<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gene editing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>26 November 2018<br>Dundee students have posted a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Mgi23y757Jw\">short video<\/a>&nbsp;on our work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oxaborole target ID<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>5 September 2018<br>Richard, Eva and the team show that clinical and veterinary trypanocidal benzoxaboroles target CPSF3: see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2018\/discovery-aids-disease-elimination-efforts.php\">UoD press release<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2018\/sep\/4\/discovery-aids-disease-elimination-efforts\">SLS news<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30185555\"><em>Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.&nbsp;<\/em><\/a>paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biology of Parasitism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>2 July 2018<br>David and Joana teach a 2-week module on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.edu\/education\/courses\/biology-of-parasitism\/\">BoP course<\/a>&nbsp;in Woods Hole, USA. Also on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mblbop?lang=en\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gene editing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>21 May 2018<br>Eva\u2019s paper on Cas9-based editing in T. brucei published in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-26303-w\">Scientific Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gene expression control<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>15 March 2018<br>New work on the impact of codon usage bias: see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2018\/may\/2\/how-killer-parasites-control-protein-abundance\">SLS news<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/32496\"><em>eLife<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Melarsoprol-resistance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 December 2017<br>Dundee students have posted a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/awCMdqmuZbQ\">short video<\/a>&nbsp;on our work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biology of Parasitism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>24 July 2017<br>David and Joanna teach a 2-week module on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.edu\/education\/courses\/biology-of-parasitism\/\">BoP course<\/a>&nbsp;in Woods Hole, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eva Rico joins the team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 May 2017<br>Welcome to Eva, who joins us following a post-doc in Edinburgh with Keith Matthews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BSP: Dundee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>2 April 2017<br>British Society for Parasitology meeting 2nd \u2013 5th April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">David Horn, FRSE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>15 February 2017<br>David elected Fellow of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rse.org.uk\/\">The Royal Society of Edinburgh<\/a>:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Press-Release-The-RSE-welcomes-60-new-Fellows.pdf\">RSE announcement<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2017\/rse-honours-for-dundee-professors.php\">UoD news<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2017\/feb\/15\/two-new-rse-fellows-school\">SLS news<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 Trager award 23 November 2019David receives William Trager award for basic parasitology: see&nbsp;WCAIR news,&nbsp;SLS news&nbsp;and&nbsp;UoD news. New funding 11 September 2019Wellcome Trust Investigator Award funding to support the Horn-lab: see&nbsp;SLS news&nbsp;and&nbsp;WCAIR news. Allelic exclusion 9 July 2019Joana\u2019s work reveals how a protein complex makes a persistent parasite: see&nbsp;UoD news,&nbsp;SLS news&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Nature Communications&nbsp;paper. 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