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Professor Julian Blow, Dean of School is leaving the School of Life Sciences to join the University of East Anglia as Pro Vice Chancellor Research.
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Professor Julian Blow, Dean of School is leaving the School of Life Sciences to join the University of East Anglia as Pro Vice Chancellor Research.
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Didier Ndeh and Ralitsa Madsen have been promoted to Principal Investigator positions within the School of Life Science, following recent Roundtable Interviews.
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Jade Bleau, PhD, a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the School of Life Sciences and the James Hutton Institute has been named as a winner in this year’s Black in Plant Science Research Excellence Awards.
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The School of Life Sciences (SLS) have recently welcomed the first two recipients of scholarships for Black British students on our Masters by Research (MbR) course.
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Review of the Year 2023 took place this week with the Dean, Julian Blow sharing the highlights of activity within the School from 2023.
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A University of Dundee expert has been confirmed as one of the biggest names in plant microbiology after being honoured at a major awards ceremony.
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We have a bumper crop of promotions this year as part of the 2022 Annual Review process for academic staff.
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Dr Hannes Maib has been awarded a 5-year Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award that will allow him to establish his own independent laboratory at the University of Sheffield.
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The latest research led by Sarah McKim and her team solved a mystery that has puzzled barley scientists for over 50 years. This work is just published in Nature Communications.
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The thin layer of soil surrounding plant roots, an interface that scientists define as the rhizosphere, is a habitat for a multitude of microorganisms collectively referred to as the rhizosphere microbiota.
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Professor Kate Storey, of the University of Dundee, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
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A team from the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) at the University of Dundee has developed a new parasite gene-editing technology.
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Guillermo Serrano Najera was awarded the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) 2022 Beddington Medal at the recent annual meeting of the society. Guillermo received this awarded for his PhD work in Professor Kees Weijer on chick gastrulation.
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A trio of University of Dundee academics are among the newest Fellows elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
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How did life start out on this planet, around 3.5 billion years ago? Since we cannot go back in time to look we can only get hints by projecting backwards from contemporary life, and doing experiments that test the limits of what might have been possible.
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Jeffrey Williams, world-leading expert on cell differentiation and a member of the division of Cell and Developmental Biology for 18 years until his retirement in 2016, died in January 2022.
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Martin Balcerowicz joined the School in January to establish his own laboratory in the Division of Plant Sciences.
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A research team has discovered that blue light inhibits the immune response of potato plants to Phytophthora infestans, making them more susceptible to potato late blight.