Byron Spring
Retaining Fee LecturerFiona Stafford FBA, FRSE
Fellow & Tutor in English Literature; Professor of English Language and LiteratureIn Somerville, I teach and oversee students at all levels, from Freshers encountering Victorian Literature for the first time to Finalists working on their dissertations or revising for their exams.
Having worked with students from Admissions interview to graduation, I am always pleased to hear of their progress post-Somerville, too.
In the English Faculty, I usually give lectures on Romantic Literature. I frequently give public lectures to general audiences on aspects of English and Scottish Literature, as well as on the cultural importance of Trees and Flowers. I supervise MSt courses and dissertations on Romantic Literature, Place and Nature Writing. Doctoral students, whom I’ve supervised, have worked on topics ranging from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Cowper, Keats, Clare, Byron, Austen, Hogg and the Shelleys to Romantic Theatre, Travel Writing, Romantic Children’s Literature, Eighteenth-century novels, Irish and Scottish Poetry. As chair of the Environmental Humanities Network at TORCH, I am part of a team promoting work from different disciplines in Place, Nature, and the Environment. We work closely with the Oxford/National Trust partnership and the Heritage network at TORCH and, in 2019, organised a workshop on ‘Post-Conflict Landscape’. With Professor Seamus Perry, I also convene the long-running Romantic Research Seminar, which meets regularly throughout term to welcome speakers from other institutions as well as discussing papers from established and early career scholars in Oxford.
I regularly participate in Radio programmes, including Radio 4’s Natural Histories and In Our Time, and have written and delivered or contributed to several series for Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’, including ‘The Meaning of Trees’, ‘The Meaning of Flowers’, ‘The Meaning of Beaches’, ‘Robinson Crusoe’, ‘Forests’. In 2018, I delivered a walk-and-talk documentary, ‘Keats Goes North’, following in the footsteps of John Keats. As a member of the Atlantic Archipelago Research Consortium (AARC), which is committed to exploring the local distinctiveness and rich cultural heritage of the coastal regions of Britain and Ireland, I have contributed to events, conferences and collections, including the Unencompassing the Archipelago Conference at Somerville in 2015. I enjoy working with artists and art historians and have contributed to Calum Colvin’s art books, Jacobites by Name and The Magic Box and Tate Britain’s ‘In Focus’ project on William Dyce’s painting, Pegwell Bay. I have longstanding research interests in Ossian, Austen, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, Cowper, Heaney, Carson, literature of the Romantic period, place and nature writing (old and new), Scottish poetry (post 1700), dialogues between English, Irish and Scottish literature, literature and the visual arts, contemporary poetry. As well as academic writing, I write on place and nature for wider audiences and in 2019 my play, The Dimlight Hours was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
I am currently writing volume V of The Oxford History of English Literature: The Romantic Period, 1785-1830 and a book on Place, and editing, with Nicholas Allen, an anthology of the literary magazine, Archipelago.
Books
The Brief Life of Flowers (London: John Murray, 2018)
Jane Austen: A Brief Life (London and New Haven: Yale UP, 2017)
The Long, Long Life of Trees (London and New Haven: Yale UP, 2016) (Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year, 2016)
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, ed. F. Stafford (Oxford, 2013)
Burns and Other Poets, ed. D. Sergeant and F. Stafford (Edinburgh: EUP, 2012)
Reading Romantic Poetry (Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, 2012)
Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry (Oxford: OUP, 2010) (Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2011)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, ed. Fiona Stafford (Oxford: OUP, 2004)
Jane Austen, Emma, ed. Fiona Stafford (Penguin, 2003)
Starting Lines in Scottish, English, and Irish Poetry: From Burns to Heaney (Oxford: OUP, 2000)
The Last of the Race: The Growth of a Myth from Milton to Darwin (Oxford: OUP, 1994)
The Sublime Savage: James Macpherson and The Poems of Ossian (EUP, 1988)
Articles
Coleridge’s Only Tree: Picturing the Birch
June 2020
Journal article
The Coleridge Bulletin
The Cockle Strand
June 2019
Journal article
Archipelago 12
Home Front
November 2018
Chapter
Dead Ground: 2018-1918
Keats, Shoots and Leaves
September 2018
Chapter
Keats’s Places
Victoria Stokes
Lecturer in Clinical MedicineOxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM)
Hannan, Fadil & Stevenson, Mark & Bayliss, Asha & Stokes, Victoria & Stewart, Michelle & Kooblall, Kreepa & Gorvin, Caroline & Codner, Gemma & Teboul, Lydia & Wells, Sara & Thakker, Rajesh. (2021). Ap2s1 mutation causes hypercalcaemia in mice and impairs interaction between calcium-sensing receptor and adaptor protein-2. Human molecular genetics. 30. 10.1093/hmg/ddab076.
Hannan, Fadil & Stevenson, Mark & Bayliss, Asha & Stokes, Victoria & Stewart, Michelle & Kooblall, Kreepa & Gorvin, Caroline & Codner, Gemma & Teboul, Lydia & Wells, Sara & Thakker, Rajesh. (2020). Ap2s1 mutation in mice causes familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia type 3. 10.1101/2020.08.10.244244.
Onopiuk, Marta & Eby, Bonnie & Nesin, Vasyl & Ngo, Peter & Lerner, Megan & Gorvin, Caroline & Stokes, Victoria & Thakker, Rajesh & Brandi, Maria & Chang, Wenhan & Humphrey, Mary & Tsiokas, Leonidas & Lau, Kai. (2020). Control of PTH secretion by the TRPC1 ion channel. JCI Insight. 5. 10.1172/jci.insight.132496.
Gorvin, Caroline & Stokes, Victoria & Boon, Hannah & Cranston, Treena & Gluck, Anna & Bahl, Shailina & Homfray, Tessa & Aung, Theingi & Shine, Brian & Lines, Kate & Hannan, Fadil & Thakker, Rajesh. (2019). Activating Mutations of the G-protein Subunit α 11 Interdomain Interface Cause Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia Type 2. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 105. 10.1210/clinem/dgz251.
Richard Stone
Emeritus Fellow; Emeritus Professor of Engineering ScienceRichard Stone (FREng, FSAE, FIMechE) is one of Somerville’s Engineering Fellows, having been one of the first men to join the Governing Body of Somerville College in 1994.
Professor Stone is a world-renowned authority in the mobility industry, and the author of Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines, arguably the definitive textbook on the topic. His research interests are the modelling and measurement of combustion and heat transfer in spark ignition engines, cryogenic systems, and the measurement of laminar burning velocities in zero gravity.
Read Professor Stone’s retirement feature in the Somerville Magazine
Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines
Book
1999
Correlations for the laminar-burning velocity of methane/diluent/air mixtures obtained in free-fall experiments
R Stone, A Clarke, P Beckwith
Combustion and Flame 114 (3-4), 546-555
Automotive engineering fundamentals
R Stone, JK Ball
SAE Technical Paper
A study of mixture preparation and PM emissions using a direct injection engine fuelled with stoichiometric gasoline/ethanol blends
L Chen, R Stone, D Richardson
Fuel 96, 120-130
Modelling of Nitric Oxide Formation in Spark Ignition Engines with a Multi-zone Burned Gas
RR Raine, CR Stone, J Gould
Combustion and Flame 102, 241-255
Particle number emissions from a range of European vehicles
M Braisher, R Stone, P Price
SAE Technical Paper
Almut Suerbaum
Fellow & Tutor in German; Professor of GermanFor the last three years, I have been involved in Oxford’s first Marie Curie international training network in the humanities: the project on ‘Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts’ (MITT) studies the medieval transmission of learning from the univiersities to the wider readership that could be reached through the vernacular.
Together with partners in Antwerp, Freiburg, Lecce, and Leiden, we have built up a network og 20 graduates and post-docs and held regular interdisciplinary workshops. One of the early stage researchers, Racha Kirakosian, is based at Somerville, and together,we organized a conference on ‘Medieval Women and their Books’, held jointly at the Talyorian and at Somerville.
Arising from this project, I have completed a series of articles on the use of song in mystical writing, and am planning a joint colloquium with a musicologist on the ‘Jenaer Liederhandschrift’ and the ‘Carmina Burana’ manuscript, as well as a project on voice and style as medieval literary concepts. I am interested more generally in the relationship between cultures in the middle ages – Latin and the vernacular, manuscript and voice, lay and institution, and in the role which gender plays in negotiating such cultural tensions.
Further details of my research interests, as well as an updated list of my publications, can be found on my departmental page.
‘A Room with a view. Zur Spannung zwischen Kontemplation und Leben in der Welt in den Dorotheenviten des Johannes Marienwerder’, in Mußediskurs im kulturellen Wandele, ed. Burkhard Hasebrink, Philipp Riedl ( Berlin: de Gruyter, in press)
‘Style over Substance? Interkulturelle Austauschbeziehungen zwischen geistlicher und weltlicher Lyrik am Beispiel der Hymnik’, in Stil in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, ed. Elizabeth Andersen, Ricarda Bauschke, Nicola McLelland, (forthcoming, Berlin: Akademieverlag, 2013)
‘An Urban Housewife as Saint: Dorothea von Montau and Johannes Marienwerder’, in Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany (1200-1500), ed. Elizabeth Andersen, Henrike Lähnemann, Anne Simon (Leiden: Brill: 2014), 179-204
‚Formen der Publikumsansprache bei Bertold von regensburg’, in: Predigt im Kontext, ed. Volker Mertens et al. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), 21-33
Caesar asl Integrationsfigur im Mittelalter? In: Praktiken europäischer Traditionsbildung im Mittelalter. Wissen – Literatur – Mythos, ed. Manfred Eikelmann, Udo Friedrichs (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2013), 229-243
‘gedenk ûf scheiden! Transformationen des Tagelieds im 13. Jahrhundert, in Wolfram-Studien XXI: Lyirk im 13. Jahrhundert, ed. Susanne Köbele ( Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2013), 231-249
‘Tauler reception in religious lyric: the (pseudo)-Tauler cantilenae’, in Ons Geestelijk Erf 83.3 (2012), 41-54
Editor, with Elke Brüggen, Sebastian Coxon, Franz-Josef Holznagel, Text und Normativität im deutschen Mittelalter. XX. Anglo-German Colloquium. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012)
‘Es kommt ein schiff, geladen: Mouvance in mystischen Liedern aus Straßburg, in Schreiben und Lesen in der Stadt.Literaturbetrieb im spätmittelalterlichen Straßburg, ed. Felix Heinzer, Stephen Mossman, Nigel F. Palmer (Berlin:: de Gruyter, 2012), 99-116
‘Wissen als Macht. Figurendarstellung in Thürings von Ringoltingen Melusine’, in Figurenwissen. Funktionen von Wissen bei der narrativen Figurendarstellung, ed. Lilith Jappe, Olav Krämer, Fabian Lampart, (Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2012), 54-74
Annie Sutherland
Rosemary Woolf Fellow & Tutor in Old and Middle English; Professor of Medieval LiteratureAt Somerville, I teach Old English to first-year students and Middle English to the second years.
I also supervise finalists who have chosen to write dissertations on Anglo-Saxon or later medieval topics and authors.
In the English Faculty, I teach a wide variety of medieval literature to undergraduates, though I particularly enjoy lecturing on religious texts and cultures of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In conjunction with these lectures, I regularly take students to workshops in the Ashmolean, where we have the opportunity to view, handle and discuss the Museum’s extensive collection of devotional objects. I also play a role in the provision of teaching for second and third-year students who have chosen to specialise in the literature and language of the medieval period (we call this Course 2). At graduate level, I supervise a range of MSt and DPhil students, particularly those who work on religious and biblical literature, and on devotional texts written by and for women. Current and recent DPhil students have worked on the language of suffering in thirteenth-century pastoral texts for women, the practice of prayer in early medieval and contemporary contexts, the manuscripts of devotional texts, and the Wycliffite translation of the Bible.
In my own research, I am interested in English religious literature of the early Middle Ages, particularly that which was intended for the use of female audiences. At the moment I am working on a collection of thirteenth-century prayers which were apparently composed for (and possibly by) a group of women living on the borders between England and Wales. These women seem to have been highly intelligent individuals, very possibly from wealthy backgrounds. Yet they chose to spend their lives in seclusion, voluntarily locked into small cells in which they could focus their attention on God. I am fascinated by what motivated them to live such lives, and by the books that they read in their isolation. My edition of these prayers (known collectively as the ‘Wooing Group’) is to be published by Liverpool University Press. Below is a list of my further publications.
English Psalms in the Middle Ages, 1300-1450 (OUP, 2015)
‘‘In eching for the best’: The Fourteenth-Century Prose Psalter and the Art of Psalm Translation’ in Leneghan and Atkin (eds.), The Psalms and Medieval English Literature (Boydell and Brewer, 2017)
‘The Wycliffite Psalms’ in Solopova (ed.), The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation (Brill, 2016)
‘Psalms as Polemic: The Middle English Translation Debate’ in Suerbaum, Thompson and Southcombe (eds.), Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse (Ashgate, 2015)
‘Julian of Norwich’ in Taylor (ed.), The Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters (Baker Publishing Group, 2012)
‘Performing the Penitential Psalms in the Middle Ages’ in Suerbaum and Gragnolati (eds.) Aspects of the Performative in the Middle Ages (De Gruyter, 2010)
‘Comfortable Wordis’: The Role of the Bible in The Doctrine of the Heart’ in Renevey and Whitehead (eds.), A Companion to the Doctrine of the Heart (University of Exeter Press, 2010)
‘The Middle English Mystics and the Bible’ in Rowland, Joynes, Lemon, Mason and Roberts (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
‘English Psalms in the Middle Ages’, Bodleian Library Record, 28 (2009)
‘All my rites of holy church: Julian of Norwich and the liturgy’ in Herbert McAvoy (ed.), A Companion to Julian of Norwich (Boydell and Brewer, 2008)
‘Biblical Text and Spiritual Experience in Richard Rolle’s English Epistles’, The Review of English Studies, New Series, 56, no. 227 (2005), 695-711
‘The Chastising of God’s Children – A neglected text’ in Barr and Hutchison (eds.), Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale – Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson (Brepols, 2005)
‘‘oure feyth is groundyd in goddes worde’ – Julian of Norwich and the Bible’ in Jones (ed.), The Medieval Mystical Tradition Exeter Symposium VII (Boydell and Brewer, 2004)
‘The dating and authorship of the Cloud corpus – a reassessment of the evidence’ Medium Aevum vol. lxxi, 2002, 82-100
Jemima Tabeart
Fulford Junior Research Fellow; Hooke Fellow, Mathematical InstituteI am a Hooke Fellow at the Mathematical Institution.
My research interests include large scale numerical linear algebra (theory and applications), data assimilation, and treatment of covariance matrices. Alongside my research I’m interested in outreach and scientific crafting. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.
Selected Publications
- Model Reduction of Linear Dynamical Systems via Balancing for Bayesian Inference. Elizabeth Qian, Jemima M. Tabeart, Christopher Beattie, Serkan Gugercin, Jiahua Jiang, Peter R. Kramer and Akil Narayan
- Saddle point preconditioners for weak-constraint 4D-Var. Jemima M Tabeart and John W Pearson
- The conditioning of least squares problems in preconditioned variational data assimilation, Jemima M Tabeart, Sarah L Dance, Amos S Lawless, Nancy K Nichols, Joanne A Waller
- The impact of using reconditioned correlated observation‐error covariance matrices in the Met Office 1D‐Var system. Jemima M Tabeart, Sarah L Dance, Amos S Lawless, Stefano Migliorini, Nancy K Nichols, Fiona Smith, Joanne A Waller
- Improving the condition number of estimated covariance matrices. Jemima M Tabeart, Sarah L Dance, Amos S Lawless, Nancy K Nichols, Joanne A Waller
- The conditioning of least‐squares problems in variational data assimilation. Jemima M Tabeart, Sarah L Dance, Stephen A Haben, Amos S Lawless, Nancy K Nichols, Joanne A Waller
Rajesh Thakker
Senior Research Fellow; May Professor of MedicineRajesh Thakker (FRCP, FRCPath, FmedSci, FRS) is the May Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
He was previously Professor of Medicine at The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, The Hammersmith Hospital, London, until 1999, when he took up his present position in Oxford.
His main research interests include the molecular basis of disorders of calcium homeostasis. He has published over 350 articles, and has been the recipient of many prizes which include Young Investigator Award from the ASBMR (USA), the Raymond-Horton Smith Prize (Cambridge University, UK), the Society for Endocrinology (UK) medal, the European Journal of Endocrinology Prize (EFES), the Graham Bull Prize from the Royal College of Physicians (UK), the Parathyroid Medal from the Fondazione Raffaella Becagli (F.I.R.M.O.), the Jack W. Coburn Endowed Lectureship from the American Society of Nephrology, and the Louis V Avioli Founder’s Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (USA). In addition, he has served on the MRC Physiological Medicine and Infections Grants Committee (1994-1997), the MRC Clinical Training and Career Development Panel (1997-2000), the MRC Physiological Medicine and Infections Board (2000-2005), as Secretary to the Forum on Academic Medicine for the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (2002-2005), and on the Council for the Society for Endocrinology (2003-2006). He has been Chairman of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) / MRC Efficacy and Mechanisms Evaluations (EME) Board since 2008. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.
Walls GV, Lemos MC, Javid M, Bazan-Peregrino M, Jayabalan J, Reed AA, Harding B, Tyler DJ, Stuckey DJ, Piret S, Christie PT, Ansorge O, Clarke K, Seymour LW, Thakker RV (2012). MEN1 gene replacement therapy reduces proliferation rates in a mouse model of pituitary adenomas. Cancer Research, 72: 1-9.
Nesbit MA, Hannan FM, Howles SA, Babinsky VN, Head RA, Cranston T, Rust N, Hobbs MR, Heath H III, Thakker RV (2013). Mutations affecting G-protein subunit α11 in hypercalcemia and hypocalcemia. New England Journal of Medicine 368: 2476-86.
Nesbit MA, Hannan FM, Howles SA, Reed AAC, Cranston T, Thakker CE, Gregory L, Rimmer AJ, Rust N, Graham U, Morrison P, Hunter SJ, Whyte MP, McVean G, Buck D, Thakker RV (2013). Mutations in AP2S1 cause familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia type 3. Nature Genetics, 45: 93-97.
Gorvin CM, Wilmer MJ, Piret SE, Harding B, van den Heuvel LP, Wrong O, Jat PS, Lippiat JD, Levtchenko EN, Thakker RV (2013). Receptor-mediated endocytosis and endosomal acidification is impaired in proximal tubule epithelial cells of Dent’s disease patients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110: 7014-7019.
Newey P, Gorvin C, Cleland S, Willberg C, Bridge M, Azharuddin M, Drummond R, van der Merwe P, Klenerman P, Bountra C, Thakker RV (2013). Mutant prolactin receptor and familial hyperprolactinemia. New England Journal of Medicine, 369: 2012-2020.
Benjamin Thompson
Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History; Associate Professor of Medieval History; Associate Head (Education) of Humanities Division, Oxford UniversityBenjamin Thompson (FHRS) is a medieval historian who specialises in the role of the church in society and politics between the Norman Conquest and the Reformation in England.
He is working on a book provisionally titled The Alien Priories Transformed: Church, Society and Politics in Late Medieval England which examines the ‘alien’ priories, lands and monasteries in England owned by French abbeys as a result of the Conquest. These came under increasingly xenophobic scrutiny during the Hundred Years War, which provoked a public debate about the correct use of ecclesiastical resources. Their eventual confiscation – more than a century before the Dissolution of the Monasteries – established the legitimacy of the secular power’s intervention in re-ordering the church.
Professor Thompson has investigated these broad themes across a range of material. Recent articles have focused on the underlying ideology of the church in its relation to society and politics, for instance the tension between the clergy’s sense of difference from the laity based on their spiritual function of ministering to souls, and their practical integration into a society which embraced religious culture and practice, and in which they were powerful officials and landowners.
He explored the ‘polemic’ of ecclesiastical reform as part of the Somerville medievalists’ interdisciplinary research group’s second project: their book on Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse was published in 2015: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472425089
http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/staff/profile/thompson/index.html
Temporal Dislocation in Material-for-Spiritual Exchange
Thompson, B in ‘Medieval Temporalities: the Experience of Time in Medieval Europe’ ed. E Suerbaum, A, Sutherland,
2020
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Political Society in Later Medieval England A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter
Thompson, B, Watts, J
16 July 2015
Book
Jessica Thompson
Fulford Junior Research FellowTo respond adaptively in novel settings, intelligent agents must develop certain invariances (or abstractions) to map the infinite variety of the natural world to some smaller number of concepts, features, or values. Dr. Jessica Thompson investigates the computational principles that govern how those abstract representations develop through experience.
As a postdoctoral researcher in Chris Summerfield’s group at University of Oxford, she uses careful experimental design to establish the functional role of various computational ingredients in artificial neural networks trained on visual reasoning tasks. She completed her PhD at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music & Sound Research (BRAMS) and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Mila) at University of Montreal where her research focused on characterizing and comparing representational hierarchies in artificial neural networks and the human auditory system.
To view Jessica’s recent publications, visit https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/jessica-thompson
Kerstin Timm
Stipendiary Lecturer; BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Research FellowSome chemotherapeutic agents, such as doxorubicin, have severe cardiotoxic side effects, which can lead to congestive heart failure in 5% of patients.
There are currently no imaging techniques available to detect patients before the onset of functional decline and there are no specific cardio-protective drugs. My research focuses on both the early detection of cardiotoxicity using the novel metabolic imaging technique, hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the repurposing of existing drugs that target cardiac metabolism as potential cardio-protective therapy.
Before I came to the UK I trained as a vet at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany). I then undertook an MRes in “In Vivo Imaging in Biology and Medicine” and a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. During my PhD in Prof Kevin Brindle’s laboratory I used hyperpolarized MRI to assess tumour metabolism and redox state in mouse models of cancer. I was then awarded a British Heart Foundation (BHF) Immediate Postdoctoral Basic Science Research Fellowship to move to the Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) at the University of Oxford. During my time in Prof Damian Tyler’s lab at DPAG I established a clinically-relevant rat model of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity and found that hyperpolarized MRI can detect early changes in cardiac mitochondrial metabolism that precede functional decline. I am now in the process of testing existing drugs that boost mitochondrial metabolism and have some early encouraging data that shows prevention of functional decline with this approach in rats treated wit doxorubicin.
In addition to my role as Career Development Fellow at the Department of Pharmacology, I am also the Isobel Laing Career Development Fellow in Medical Sciences at Oriel college. This involves tutorial teaching in metabolism for first year Medical and Biomedical Sciences students. I am furthermore a Stipendiary Lecturer in Medicine at Somerville College (since 2017), where I conduct tutorials in the ‘Organisation of the Body’ course for first year medics, for whom I am also personal tutor. In addition I offer FHS tutorials in cancer metabolism and I act as College Adviser to graduate students in Medical Sciences. In the past I was a Lecturer in Metabolism at Corpus Christi College (2016-2020). I am passionate about disseminating research to the wider public and have thus taken part in outreach events such as ‘Pint of Science’ and ‘FameLab’ as well as events organised by the BHF and Somerville College.
‘L-Carnitine Stimulates In Vivo Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Type 1 Diabetic Heart as Demonstrated by Hyperpolarized MRI’
Journal article
Savic D. et al, (2021), Metabolites, 11
‘Hyperpolarized magnetic resonance shows that the antiischemic drug meldonium leads to increased flux through pyruvate dehydrogenase in vivo resulting in improved postischemic function in the diabetic heart
Journal article
SAVIC D. et al, (2021), NMR in Biomedicine
‘Rapid, $B_1$-insensitive, dual-band quasi-adiabatic saturation transfer with optimal control for complete quantification of myocardial ATP flux’
Journal article
Miller JJ. et al, (2020), Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
‘Early detection of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in rats by its cardiac metabolic signature assessed with hyperpolarized MRI’
Journal article
Timm KN. et al, (2020), Commun Biol, 3
‘Nicotinic acid receptor agonists impair myocardial contractility by energy starvation’
Journal article
Watson WD. et al, (2020), FASEB J
‘Probing hepatic metabolism of [2-13C]dihydroxyacetone in vivo with 1H-decoupled hyperpolarized 13C-MR’
Journal article
Marco-Rius I. et al, (2020), MAGMA
‘A 3D hybrid-shot spiral sequence for hyperpolarized 13 C imaging.’
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Tyler A. et al, (2020), Magn Reson Med
‘A 3D hybrid-shot spiral sequence for hyperpolarized 13C imaging’
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TYLER D. et al, (2020), Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
‘Rescue of myocardial energetic dysfunction in diabetes through the correction of mitochondrial hyperacetylation by honokiol.’
Journal article
Kerr M. et al, (2020), JCI Insight, 5
‘The Role of AMPK Activation for Cardioprotection in Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity’
Journal article
Timm KN. and Tyler DJ., (2020), Cardiovasc Drugs Ther, 34, 255 – 269
John Traill
Stipendiary LecturerJohn Traill is a prominent conductor, composer, and educator.
He values musical endeavours at all levels and he fervently promotes music for all, with a particular focus in higher education. As Director of Music at St. Anne’s, John co-ordinates music across the breadth of the academic community. With twenty years experience combining freelance performance with academic positions at leading UK conservatoires and universities, John is currently also director of the Oxford Conducting Institute, the St Anne’s Camerata, Ensemble ISIS (the new music group at Oxford Faculty of Music), the City of Southampton Orchestra, and the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra. Previous academic positions include acting Head of Performance at Bangor University, Teaching Fellow positions at Royal Holloway and King’s College, University of London, and lectureships at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and Bristol University.