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Dr. Alison Woollard
Born
Alison Claire S. Woollard[citation needed]

1968 (age 55–56) [citation needed]
Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Alma materBirkbeck College, London
University of Oxford
AwardsRoyal Institution Christmas Lectures (2013)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College, London
Birkbeck College, London[1]
Hertford College, Oxford
ThesisCell cycle control in fission yeast (1995)
Doctoral advisorPaul Nurse[2]
Websitehttps://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=606

Alison Woollard (born 1968) is a British biologist. She is a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford[3][4][5] where she is also a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.[1]

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.[2][6]

Research

Woollard moved to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in 1995.[7] Her research focuses on developmental biology of the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans[8][9][10] particularly RUNX genes.[11][12]

Awards and honours

In 2013 Woollard presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.[2][13][14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Dr Alison Woollard: 'I've got the performing bug'". The Independent. 22 December 2013. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "The Royal Institution of Great Britain | Dr Alison Woollard explores the frontiers of developmental biology in the 2013 CHRISTMAS LECTURES". Archived from the original on 5 August 2013.
  3. ^ Alison Woollard's publications in Google Scholar
  4. ^ Alison Woollard publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  5. ^ Alison Woollard's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Woollard, Alison (1995). Cell cycle control in fission yeast (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  7. ^ "Alison Woollard on what she has learnt from mutant worms, The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4". BBC.
  8. ^ Woollard, A.; Hodgkin, J. (2000). "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. PMC 316422. PMID 10716947.
  9. ^ Hayles, J.; Fisher, D.; Woollard, A.; Nurse, P. (1994). "Temporal order of S phase and mitosis in fission yeast is determined by the state of the p34cdc2-mitotic B cyclin complex". Cell. 78 (5): 813–822. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(94)90542-8. PMID 8087848. S2CID 7449103.
  10. ^ Chang, F.; Woollard, A.; Nurse, P. (1996). "Isolation and characterization of fission yeast mutants defective in the assembly and placement of the contractile actin ring". Journal of Cell Science. 109 (1): 131–142. PMID 8834798.
  11. ^ Appleford, P. J.; Woollard, A. (2009). "RUNX genes find a niche in stem cell biology". Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 108 (1): 14–21. doi:10.1002/jcb.22249. PMID 19562739. S2CID 35703786.
  12. ^ Newbury, S.; Woollard, A. (2004). "The 5'-3' exoribonuclease xrn-1 is essential for ventral epithelial enclosure during C. Elegans embryogenesis". RNA. 10 (1): 59–65. doi:10.1261/rna.2195504. PMC 1370518. PMID 14681585.
  13. ^ Woollard, Alison; Gilbert, Sophie. "Tales from the lobster tank". RIGB. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  14. ^ Sample, Ian. "Christmas lectures will address ethical challenges posed by genetics". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 November 2016.


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