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Dr Sarah McKim and collaborators have been awarded £1.165M from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to study a feature of cereal plants what can help improve crops.
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Dr Sarah McKim and collaborators have been awarded £1.165M from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to study a feature of cereal plants what can help improve crops.
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A team at the University of Dundee and University of York has determined how a highly selective protein bridge allows cells to express a single gene from a large gene family.
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A University of Dundee expert in microbiology has won a prestigious award for sharing her knowledge with local schools.
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Professor Paul Birch and collaborators at the James Hutton Institute have been awarded ~£679k to study how the potato blight pathogen suppresses the potato immune system.
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Dr Martin Balcerowicz has been awarded ~£540k to study the molecular mechanisms by which plants react to their temperature environment.
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A collaboration between the research laboratories of Dr Mattie Pawlowic and Dr Susan Wyllie in the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research at School of Life Sciences has generated a new tool that can be used for studying Cryptosporidium.
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It may be known as the basis of whisky but scientists at two of Scotland’s leading scientific institutions have been tasked with distilling a new future for barley.
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New collaborative research led by the recently appointed University of Dundee Professor Marcus Lee.
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Researchers at the University of Dundee have received funding of £4.4 million to explore how our genes can be ‘video-edited’ to develop new drugs for cancer, neurodegeneration and other diseases.
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Dan Neill has joined the Division of Molecular Microbiology, as Senior Lecturer.
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Dr Susan Wyllie has been awarded the prestigious C.A. Wright Memorial Medal from the British Society for Parasitology in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the discipline.
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The School of Life Sciences Annual Research Symposium returned to Crieff Hydro after a 4-year hiatus.
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The latest research from Professor Paul Birch and colleagues has discovered details of how major crop pathogens cause infection.
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A University of Dundee academic has been identified as one of the future stars of science.
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Research from the University of Dundee has discovered new details on how plants perceive and then respond to disease causing microbes. This work has been published in the journal Current Biology.
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The University of Dundee’s Professor Jason Swedlow, a global pioneer in the field of bioimaging, has received an honorary Order of the British Empire in recognition of his stellar research career.
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Review of the Year 20212 took place last week with the Dean, Julian Blow sharing the highlights of activity within the School from 2022.
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A new University of Dundee spinout opportunity hopes to create vaccines against Strep A as well as novel vaccines for other human and animal diseases, while reducing our reliance on antibiotics.
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New work from the University of Dundee reveals a basic feature of how our genomes are organized, and our genes are processed. This work has been published in the journal eLife.
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Potato is the third most important food crop in the world and consumed by over a billion people. Pathogens can destroy entire crops and thereby threaten food security.