Alison Woollard Explained
Alison Woollard (born 1968) is a British biologist. She is a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford[2] where she is also a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.[3]
Early life
Woollard was born in 1968 in Kingston-upon-Thames.
Education
Woollard was educated at University of London, gaining her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences in 1991 and gained her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford on fission yeast supervised by Paul Nurse in 1995.[1] [4]
Research
Woollard moved to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in 1995.[5] Her research focuses on developmental biology of the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans[6] [7] [8] particularly RUNX genes.[9] [10]
She is currently the Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research at the University of Oxford, a post which she has held since 2017.[11] [12]
Awards and honours
In 2013 Woollard presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.[1] [13] [14] She has also been interviewed on the BBC radio programme The Life Scientific.[15]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The Royal Institution of Great Britain | Dr Alison Woollard explores the frontiers of developmental biology in the 2013 CHRISTMAS LECTURES . 2013-08-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130814154030/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?id=00000007389&action=displayContent . dead.
- https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=alison+woollard Alison Woollard's publications in Google Scholar
- Web site: Dr Alison Woollard: 'I've got the performing bug' . 2013-12-22 . The Independent . 2013-12-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131231030322/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/dr-alison-woollard-ive-got-the-performing-bug-9020180.html . live.
- DPhil . Alison. Woollard . Cell cycle control in fission yeast . University of Oxford . 1995 . Alison Woollard.
- Web site: Alison Woollard on what she has learnt from mutant worms, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4. BBC. en-GB.
- Woollard . A. . Alison Woollard. Hodgkin . J. . Jonathan Hodgkin. The caenorhabditis elegans fate-determining gene mab-9 encodes a T-box protein required to pattern the posterior hindgut . Genes & Development . 14 . 5 . 596–603 . 2000 . 10.1101/gad.14.5.596 . 10716947 . 316422.
- Hayles . J. . Fisher . D. . Woollard . A. . Alison Woollard. Nurse . P. . Paul Nurse. Temporal order of S phase and mitosis in fission yeast is determined by the state of the p34cdc2-mitotic B cyclin complex . 10.1016/S0092-8674(94)90542-8 . Cell . 78 . 5 . 813–822 . 1994 . 8087848. 7449103 .
- Chang . F.. Woollard . A. . Alison Woollard. Nurse . P.. Paul Nurse. Isolation and characterization of fission yeast mutants defective in the assembly and placement of the contractile actin ring . Journal of Cell Science . 109 . 131–142 . 1996 . 8834798 . 1. 10.1242/jcs.109.1.131.
- Appleford . P. J. . Woollard . A. . Alison Woollard. 10.1002/jcb.22249 . RUNX genes find a niche in stem cell biology . Journal of Cellular Biochemistry . 108 . 1 . 14–21 . 2009 . 19562739 . 35703786 .
- Newbury . S. . Woollard . A. . Alison Woollard. The 5'-3' exoribonuclease xrn-1 is essential for ventral epithelial enclosure during C. Elegans embryogenesis . RNA . 10 . 1 . 59–65 . 2004 . 14681585 . 1370518 . 10.1261/rna.2195504.
- Web site: Support for Public Engagement University of Oxford. 2021-04-28. www.ox.ac.uk.
- Web site: Prof. Alison Woollard appointed as Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research. 2021-04-28. www.bioch.ox.ac.uk. en.
- Web site: Woollard. Alison. Gilbert. Sophie. Tales from the lobster tank. RIGB. 17 November 2016.
- News: Sample. Ian. Christmas lectures will address ethical challenges posed by genetics. The Guardian. 5 August 2013 . 17 November 2016.
- Web site: The Life Scientific: Alison Woollard. 2021-04-30. www.bbc.co.uk.
