Lincoln Leads in Medicine – Tuesday 21st February: ‘Lincoln’s medical breakthroughs: The past, present and future’
17.45 -19.00. Wine reception from 17.15. Sign up at lincolnleads.eventbrite.co.uk
Dr Eric Sidebottom’s ambition is to convince the world that disease changed the course of history more than war or revolution. Not only is Dr Sidebottom an authority on Oxford’s medical history, he was once taught by the most important figure in the discovery of penicillin, Lord Florey. He can chart Lincoln’s longstanding connections with the Dunn School and the world-changing breakthroughs in medicines such as penicillin. .
Professor David Vaux’s current research focuses on the nuclear envelope and its associated disease states. The nuclear envelope is the barrier between the nucleus and the rest of the cell, and his team study the roads and tunnels that carry molecules deep into or through the nucleus (these tunnels become more of a spaghetti junction in patients in the premature ageing disease progeria).
After nearly a century of pathology-slanted studies, the Dunn School has begun turning its face to modern cell biology. Mustafa Aydogan will be addressing the present and future of this transition through the lens of his observations at Dunn School as well as the type of research he does in the laboratory on a daily basis. Currently, he investigates the biogenesis of centrioles, which are the cellular structures that help and organize cells so that they can divide properly.