Alison Woollard

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Alison Woollard
Born
Alison Claire S. Woollard[
University College, London
Birkbeck College, London[1]
Hertford College, Oxford
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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.[citation needed]

Education

Woollard was educated at

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]

She is currently the Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research at the University of Oxford, a post which she has held since 2017.[13][14]

Awards and honours

In 2013 Woollard presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.[2][15][16] She has also been interviewed on the BBC radio programme The Life Scientific.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Dr Alison Woollard: 'I've got the performing bug'". The Independent. 22 December 2013. Archived from the original on 31 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 14 August 2013.
  3. ^ Alison Woollard's publications in Google Scholar
  4. 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.
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  13. ^ "Support for Public Engagement | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  14. ^ "Prof. Alison Woollard appointed as Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research". www.bioch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  15. ^ Woollard, Alison; Gilbert, Sophie. "Tales from the lobster tank". RIGB. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  16. ^ Sample, Ian (5 August 2013). "Christmas lectures will address ethical challenges posed by genetics". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  17. ^ "The Life Scientific: Alison Woollard". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

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