{"id":430,"date":"2023-11-06T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/david-horn\/?page_id=430"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:37:47","slug":"2016-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/david-horn\/news\/2016-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 &#8211; 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2016<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr Sebastian Hutchinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>25 November 2016<br>Congratulations to Seb on his Ph.D. award (and Roux Fellowship award) and many thanks to his examiners, Mark Carrington and Tom Owen-Hughes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biology of Parasitism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>5 August 2016<br>David and Seb teach their first module on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.edu\/education\/summer-courses\/biology-of-parasitism\/\">BoP course<\/a>&nbsp;in Woods Hole, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VEX1 controls VSG expression<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>23 May 2016<br>VEX1 controls VSG allelic exclusion and&nbsp;antigenic variation: see the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2016\/may\/27\/parasites-use-%E2%80%98winner-takes-all%E2%80%99-mechanism-evade-our-immune-defenses\">press release<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27226299\">Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joana Faria and Julie Kov\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 join the team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 May 2016<br>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lucy Glover now a PI at Pasteur Institute<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 March 2016<br>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">David awarded C.A. Wright medal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>24 February 2016<br>See the full story in University of Dundee&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2016\/feb\/22\/david-horn-receive-ca-wright-memorial-medal-outstanding-contribution-parasitology\">news<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catarina Marques joins the team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>4 January 2016<br>Welcome to Catarina&nbsp;who recently completed a very successful Ph.D. in Glasgow with Richard McCulloch and now joins Dundee as a post-doc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2105<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inter-organellar communication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>18 August 2015<br>Vacuolar V-ATPase function impacts mitochondrial F-ATPase function and antikinetoplastid drug-sensitivity.&nbsp;See the paper in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26150481\">Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2104<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quorum sensing decoded<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 January 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaboration reveals the factors controlling&nbsp;<em>T. brucei<\/em>&nbsp;differentiation and fly-transmission. See the paper in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature12864.html\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/news\/2013\/parasite-151213\">Edinburgh news<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2013<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Novel DNA polymerase identified<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 December 2013<br>PPL2 is a novel DNA polymerase with a conserved function in DNA repair. See the paper in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1097276513008009\">Mol. Cell.<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2013\/nov\/29\/horn-lab-collaboration-sussex-reveals-novel-dna-repair-polymerase\">Dundee news<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/newsandevents\/pressrelease\/id\/22170\">Sussex news<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drug transporter verified<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 November 2013<br>Aquaglyceroporin 2 is the long-sought gene encoding the High-Affinity Pentamidine Transporter. See the paper in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jac.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2013\/11\/13\/jac.dkt442.long\">J. Antimicrob. Chemother<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/app.dundee.ac.uk\/pressreleases\/2013\/november13\/sleepingsickness.html\">Dundee press-release<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk\/news\/2013\/nov\/26\/dundee-glasgow-collaboration-shows-sleeping-sickness-parasite%E2%80%99s-pores-act-efficient\">.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/news\/headline_297268_en.html\">Glasgow news<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/Sleeping-sickness-parasites-pores-act-as-efficient-drug-uptake-mechanism\/articleshow\/26394216.cms\">Times of India<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured in the&nbsp;<em>Courier&nbsp;<\/em>newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three post-docs join the team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 November 2013<br>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drug resistance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 October 2013<br>Collaborative work links water channel to clinical melarsoprol resistance. See the paper in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosntds.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0002475\">PLoS NTD<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move to Dundee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1 May 2013<br>David moves to Dundee as Prof. of Parasite Molecular Biology and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/Funding\/Biomedical-science\/Funded-projects\/Awards-made\/wtvm054834.htm#Nov2012heading\">Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator<\/a>. Lucy, Nicola and Seb move in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Antigenic variation work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>March 2013<br>Antigenic variation work published in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plospathogens.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1003260\"><em>PLoS Pathogens<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drug resistance work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>February 2013<br>Nicola awarded Ph.D. for work on drug resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 Dr Sebastian Hutchinson 25 November 2016Congratulations 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 2016David and Seb teach their first module on the&nbsp;BoP course&nbsp;in Woods Hole, USA. 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