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Elena Purlyte, lead of the PiCLS committee between May 2018 until September 2019, has looked back on the achievements of the committee during her tenure.
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Dr Melissa D'Ascenzio, a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the D’Arcy Thompson Unit, has passed her three-year probation period at the University.
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The School has welcomed three new group leaders in recent months. They are currently establishing their laboratories across three of our divisions.
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Dr Sarah McKim from the Division of Plant Sciences has been awarded tenure.
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Nick Brewer, Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching for the School has been promoted to Reader as part of the 2019 Annual Review process for academic staff.
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Professor David Lilley has been made a visiting professor at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. Nankai is one of the top 20 universities in China and is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year.
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David Gray has been promoted to Personal Chair. He takes the title of Professor of Translational Biology which is in recognition of his extensive work within the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) and Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR).
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Over 50 undergraduate students have been undertaking life science summer projects within the University over the past few months.
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Dr Susan Wyllie, Head of the Mode of Action (MoA) group, has been promoted to tenure track Principal Investigator in the School.
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Potatoes have been a staple of Britain’s diet for half a millennium, but new research suggests that limited genetic differences in potato lineages has left British and American spuds vulnerable to the disease that caused the Irish potato famine
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The Schools of Life Sciences and Medicine are delighted to host eight of our undergraduate students who are undertaking Medical Research Scotland funded vacation scholarships with researchers in the Schools.
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The University of Dundee’s renowned comics artists and writers have produced a new publication raising awareness of coeliac disease.
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Dr Stephen Kelley has joined the School as a lecturer in pharmacology as part of the D’Arcy Thompson Unit.
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The University of Dundee has recorded one of the highest scores in the latest International Student Barometer (ISB)
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The University of Dundee has formed a new link with China, with Professor Daan van Aalten from the School of Life Sciences being appointed a guest professor at Xiangya Hospital at Central South University in Changsha, China.
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Adrien Rousseau has opened a new laboratory in the MRC PPU to investigate signalling pathways controlling proteasome homeostasis.
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Dr Sarah Coulthurst has been awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in microbiology for her work studying how bacteria are able to cause disease.
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Tom McWilliams, a postdoc at the MRC PPU has been awarded a prestigious Academy of Finland Research Fellowship.
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Dr Kim Dale from the School has been recently appointed as the University academic lead for International activity in the ASEAN region.
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Dr Marios Stavridis, Lecturer in the D'Arcy Thompson Unit, has been appointed to the role of Programme Lead for Biological Sciences, taking up responsibility for leading on the delivery and management of all our Biological Sciences BSc degree programmes.