Keith Gull Explained

Keith Gull
Birth Date:1948 5, df=yes
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:King's College London (BSc, PhD)
Thesis Title:Studies on the Effect of Griseofulvin on Fungal Growth and Cytology
Thesis Url:https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=Studies%20on%20the%20effect%20of%20griseofulvin%20on%20fungal%20growth%20and%20cytology&rn=1
Thesis Year:1973

Professor Keith Gull (born 29 May 1948) is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular microbiology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He was the principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford[1] from 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2018, succeeding Michael Mingos.[2] [3]

Education

Gull was educated at Eston Grammar School and King's College London where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in 1969 followed by a PhD in 1973.[4]

Career and research

On completion of his PhD, he moved to a lectureship at the University of Kent. He held a personal chair at Kent when he moved to the University of Manchester where he spent the 1990s involved with the development of the School of Biological Sciences as Head of Biochemistry and Research Dean. He moved to Oxford in 2002. He was Chairman of the Biochemical Society (1999–2002), and is a trustee of Cancer Research UK. According to Google Scholar[5] and Scopus his most cited peer-reviewed scientific papers are on Trypanosoma brucei[6] [7] and Trypanosoma cruzi.[8] More recently, the Gull laboratory[9] has worked on Leishmania.[10] [11]

After nine years as Principal Professor of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Gull retired at the end of the 2017-18 academic year, and was succeeded by Kathy Willis.[12] [13]

Controversy

During his tenure as Principal of St Edmund Hall, he was alleged to have exploited college finances by claiming £500 in “Christmas presents” and “gifts” between November and December 2015, and £185 on a desk lamp in November 2017.[14] Gull defended his Christmas expenses claims, but not the desk lamp claim.[15]

In 2010, Gull attracted criticism by his students and the national press for the decision to spend £15,000 on a college snowdrop garden amid budget cuts. He defended the decision, claiming the snowdrops will be "fantastic", but apologised for the way in which it was made.[16] [17] [18]

In 2015, Gull declined requests to clarify the status of claims made by Bongbong Marcos, son of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, about whether he finished his degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[19]

Awards and honours

Among numerous prizes, fellowships, and other awards, Keith Gull was awarded the Marjory Stephenson Prize from the Society for General Microbiology (1996), was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999), elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003,[20] and was appointed a CBE in the 2004 New Year Honours list for services to microbiology.[21] He holds an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Kent. His certificate of election to the Royal Society reads:

Gull was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2010.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php?section=47 The Principal, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
  2. http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php?action=view&id=95&module=newsmodule&src=%40random41940a897e943 "The Hall elects its next Principal"
  3. http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php?section=47 "SEH academic staff"
  4. PhD. Keith. Gull. London, Queen Elizabeth College. Studies on the effect of griseofulvin on fungal growth and cytology. 1973. 681147643.
  5. Web site: "keith gull" – Google Scholar . 2011-04-30.
  6. Ngô . H. . Tschudi . C. . Gull . K. . Ullu . E. . Double-stranded RNA induces mRNA degradation in Trypanosoma brucei . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 95 . 25 . 14687–14692 . 1998 . 9843950 . 24510. 1998PNAS...9514687N . 10.1073/pnas.95.25.14687 . free .
  7. Berriman . M. . Ghedin . E. . Hertz-Fowler . C. . Blandin . G. . Renauld . H. . Bartholomeu . D. . Lennard . N. . Caler . E. . Hamlin . N. . Haas . B. . Böhme . U. . Hannick . L. . Aslett . M. A. . Shallom . J. . Marcello . L. . Hou . L. . Wickstead . B. . Alsmark . U. C. . Arrowsmith . C. . Atkin . R. J. . Barron . A. J. . Bringaud . F. . Brooks . K. . Carrington . M. . Cherevach . I. . Chillingworth . T. J. . Churcher . C. . Clark . L. N. . Corton . C. H. . Cronin . A. . 29 . The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei . 10.1126/science.1112642 . Science . 309 . 5733 . 416–422 . 2005 . 16020726 . 2005Sci...309..416B . 18649858 .
  8. El-Sayed . N. M. . Myler . P. . Bartholomeu . D. . Nilsson . D. . Aggarwal . G. . Tran . A. . Ghedin . E. . Worthey . E. . Delcher . A. . Blandin . G. . Westenberger . S. J. . Caler . E. . Cerqueira . G. C. . Branche . C. . Haas . B. . Anupama . A. . Arner . E. . Aslund . L. . Attipoe . P. . Bontempi . E. . Bringaud . F. . Burton . P. . Cadag . E. . Campbell . D. A. . Carrington . M. . Crabtree . J. . Darban . H. . Da Silveira . J. F. . De Jong . P. . Edwards . K. . The Genome Sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi, Etiologic Agent of Chagas Disease . 10.1126/science.1112631 . Science . 309 . 5733 . 409–415 . 2005 . 16020725 . 2005Sci...309..409E . 3830267 . 11336/80500 . free .
  9. http://users.path.ox.ac.uk/~kgull/publications.htm Keith Gull lab publications
  10. Wheeler . R. J. . Gluenz . E. . Gull . K. . 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07479.x . The cell cycle of Leishmania: Morphogenetic events and their implications for parasite biology . Molecular Microbiology . 79 . 3 . 647–662 . 2011 . 21255109 . 3166656.
  11. 20388734. 2858018. 2010. Hodges. M. E.. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the centriole from protein components. Journal of Cell Science. 123. Pt 9. 1407–13. Scheumann. N. Wickstead. B. Langdale. J. A. . Jane A. Langdale. Gull. K . Keith Gull. 10.1242/jcs.064873.
  12. Web site: A Celebration of Keith Gull. St Edmund Hall. en. 2018-05-09.
  13. Web site: St Edmund Hall elects new principal. 9 May 2018 . ox.ac.uk. 2 November 2018.
  14. Web site: Old boys' clubs and toilet brushes: how college bosses spend your money. Cherwell. 18 May 2018. en. 2018-06-10.
  15. Web site: Exposed expenses hide a darker truth. Cherwell. 27 May 2018. en. 2018-05-27.
  16. Web site: Fury sprouts over snowdrop garden. Cherwell. 14 May 2010. en. 2010-05-14.
  17. Web site: Oxford college in row over £15,000 field of snowdrops. The Telegraph. 10 May 2010 . en. 2010-05-10.
  18. Web site: Oxford students hit out at £15,000 snowdrop field. The Telegraph. 9 May 2010 . en. 2010-05-10.
  19. Web site: EXCLUSIVE: Did Bongbong Marcos lie about Oxford, Wharton?. Rappler. 24 February 2015 . en. 2015-02-25.
  20. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20150916140708/https://royalsociety.org/people/keith-gull-11555. Professor Keith Gull CBE FMedSci FRS. 2015-09-16. Royal Society.
  21. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/57155/supplements/8 "New Year Honours List 2004"

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