Lady Hazel Fox
Honorary FellowLady Fox CMG, QC (Hazel), was formerly Director of the British Institute of
International and Comparative Law and General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly.
She is a member of the Institut de Droit international; Bencher of Lincoln’ Inn; Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford; member of the International Law Association Committees on State Immunity, Diplomatic Protection, and Reparation for Victims of War Damage; and Barrister at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square.
John Franklin
Lodge General AssistantJohn Frazer
Clinical Non-Stipendiary LecturerClara Freeman OBE
Honorary FellowKezia Gaitskell
Clinical Non-Stipendiary Lecturer; Academic Clinical Lecturer in HistopathologyKezia Gaitskell is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NDCLS), where she combines research with clinical training as an honorary registrar in histopathology.
She graduated with distinction from Oxford University Medical School in 2008, and undertook Academic Foundation Training in London, before studying for an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (graduating with distinction). She worked as a histopathology trainee in London, and completed a DPhil in Population Health in the Oxford University Cancer Epidemiology Unit (funded by Cancer Research UK), before taking up her current post.
Her main research interest is at the junction of epidemiology and pathology, in collaboration with the Nuffield Department of Population Health. For her DPhil, she explored risk factors for ovarian cancer, and their variation by histological type, supervised by Professor Dame Valerie Beral, and Professor Ahmed A. Ahmed. Her current work continues to investigate factors associated with cancer incidence and survival, and how these associations vary by tumour histotype.
‘Merkel cell carcinoma with divergent differentiation’
Journal article
GAITSKELL K. et al, (2019), Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
‘Merkel cell carcinoma with divergent differentiation: two case reports.’
Conference paper
Gaitskell K. and Ibrahim H., (2019), Clin Exp Dermatol
‘Hematological parameters and prevalence of anemia in white and British Indian vegetarians and nonvegetarians in the UK Biobank.’
Journal article
Tong TYN. et al, (2019), Am J Clin Nutr, 110, 461 – 472
‘Haematological parameters and anaemia in white and British Indian meat-eaters and vegetarians in UK Biobank’
Conference paper
Tong TYN. et al, (2019), PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY, 78, E23 – E23
‘Pre-diagnostic BMI and ovarian cancer survival in the Million Women Study’
Other
Gaitskell K. et al, (2018), BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER, 119, 32 – 33
Karthik Ganesh
Matric Year: 2021 - Subject: DPhil Inorganic Chemistry - Scholarship: Indira Gandhi ScholarKarthik’s research interests include soft chemical routes to Lithium-ion battery cathodes and electrolytes. Previously he has worked on projects based on renewable energy for water treatment at Indian Institute of Science, photocatalytic properties of synthesized solids and has performed studies on Bismuth Oxyhalides.
Giuseppe Gava
Fulford Junior Research FellowGiuseppe Pietro Gava joined Professor David Dupret’s Group as a joint D.Phil. student between Imperial College London (ICL) and the MRC Brain Networks Dynamic Unit (BNDU) in October 2016.
The collaboration was conceived under the ICL Neurotechnology CDT Program, and Giuseppe worked under the joint supervision of Dr Simon Schultz (ICL), Dr David Dupret (BNDU) and Prof William Wisden (ICL). Giuseppe was awarded his D.Phil. in 2021.
Giuseppe graduated in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London with a thesis on decoding locomotion kinematics from cererebellar neuronal activity, carried out under the supervision of Dr Simon Schultz. During the degree, he also collaborated with Dr Barry Seemungal at Charing Cross and St. Mary’s hospitals, London, to investigate vestibular spatial and temporal integration. During the same collaboration involving a project on the effect of dopamine on perception-motor coupling, Giuseppe was recipient of an award granted by the ‘Nuffield Foundation Royal Academy of Engineering Undergraduate Research Bursaries Programme’.
During the summer of 2015. Giuseppe joined Prof. Micera’s lab at EPFL, Switzerland, to collaborate on a project on the effect of handedness on muscle synergies. Giuseppe obtained and analysed motion tracking, EMG, force and torque data from human subjects. He also joined Team ICL in the Cybathlon Olympics for people with active prosthetics, having developed an eye-controlled wheelchair.
Giuseppe joined the Dupret Group as a Postdocoral Rrsearcher in 2021.
To view a full list of publications, visit https://www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/publications?f%5B0%5D=unit_scientist%3ADr.%20Giuseppe%20Pietro%20Gava
Mick Gielen
Retaining Fee LecturerThe Hon Victoria Glendinning
Honorary FellowBiographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist Victoria Glendinning was born in Sheffield, England on 23 April 1937.
She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Modern Languages, and worked as a teacher and social worker before becoming an editorial assistant for the Times Literary Supplement in 1974. Victoria Glendinning is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN and was awarded a CBE in 1998. She is a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Southampton, Ulster, Dublin and York. She is also a regular contributor of articles and reviews to various newspapers and magazines.
Her acclaimed biographies include Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, published in 1977; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981), which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) and the Duff Cooper Prize; and Rebecca West: A Life (1987). Both Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (1983) andTrollope (1992) won the Whitbread Biography Award. Her latest biography is Raffles and the Golden Opportunity (2012) on the life of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore.
Victoria Glendinning is the author of three novels: The Grown-Ups (1989), the story of Leo Ulm, author, pundit and academic; Electricity (1995), the story of a Victorian girl embroiled in new experiences and a new technology; and Flight (2002), a novel of passion and betrayal set in the world of international business.
In 2009, Love’s Civil War, the co-edited letters and diaries of Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, was published.
Professor Jenny Glusker
Honorary FellowJenny Pickworth is a protein crystallographer who worked in Dorothy Hodgkin’s lab, where her work on the hexacarboxylic acid derivative of vitamin B12 revealed the structure of the corrin ring.
At the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia where she was first a member of Lindo Patterson’s lab and later a principal investigator, she continued her interest in B12 structures. Her research focus has included small-molecule structures related to cancer; the structural aspects of the Krebs cycle and citrates; metal-ion coordination in proteins; the interaction of ligands with metal ions; and the enzymes aconitase and xylose isomerase. She is the recipient of many awards, notably the Fankuchen Award of the ACA and the Garvan Medal of the American Chemical Society. Her many professional contributions include serving as President of the ACA in 1979 and as editor of Acta Crystallographica D (macromolecules).
One of Dr. Glusker’s major interests is crystallography education; the 3rd edition of the popular textbook Crystal Structure Analysis: A Primer by Glusker & Trueblood appeared in 2010. She is the co-author or co-editor of a number of books on crystallography and the history of crystallography.
Trisha Gopalakrishna
Matric Year: 2019 – Subject: DPhil Geography and the Environment – Scholarship: Indira Gandhi ScholarTrisha’s doctoral research focuses on the climate mitigation potential of reforestation strategy in India.
Her proposal includes spatial analyses of where reforestation could be done without compromising India’s endemic open ecosystems (grasslands and semi-arid savannahs), shed light on the socio-political challenges of implementation of reforestation activities and determine the trade-offs and synergies between climate change mitigation, biodiversity and water services on doing reforestation activities. Trisha primarily uses geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensed imagery and statistical analyses in her research using a variety of open source softwares. She is completing her research as an Oxford Indira Gandhi 2019 Scholar at the Oxford India Center for Sustainable Development, Somerville College.
Before starting her doctorate studies at the School of Geography and Environment, Trisha worked as an applied scientist in the global climate change program at an international environment non-profit called The Nature Conservancy in Washington D.C, quantifying the potential of forest systems and other “Natural Climate Solutions” to mitigate climate change. Specifically, her work identified opportunities for reforestation and “climate smart” logging practices, globally and in key countries in the tropics. Her scientific work at the Conservancy informed international and country specific climate related policies and on-the-ground conservation efforts.
Trisha holds a Masters in Environmental Management, with a focus on Ecosystem Science and Conservation from the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. She is certified in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and primarily uses GIS, remote sensed imagery and statistical methods in her research. For her Master’s research, she quantified the composition, diversity and structure of tropical forests under pressures of bushmeat hunting and selective logging in Central Africa (Gabon and the Republic of Congo). With a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, she found her calling while doing field work in the Western Ghats of India, that included frog diversity in coffee plantations and traditional ecological knowledge of the indigenous tribes of the Nilgiris.
Trisha is always open to collaborations on a variety of topics, please get in touch with her trisha.gopalakrishna@ouce.ox.ac.uk. She can be followed on Twitter and Linkedin.
Ramesh, V., Vijayakumar, S.P., Gopalakrishna, T., Jayarajan, A. and Shanker, K. (2020) Determining levels of cryptic diversity within the endemic frog genera, Indirana and Walkerana, of the Western Ghats, India. PloS one, 15(9). e0237431.
Ellis, P.W., Gopalakrishna, T., Goodman, R.C., Putz, F.E., Roopsind, A., Umunay, P.M., et al. (2019) Reduced-impact logging for climate change mitigation (RIL-C) can halve selective logging emissions from tropical forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 438: 255-266.
Goodman, R.C., Aramburu, M.H., Gopalakrishna, T., Putz, F.E., Gutiérrez, N., Alvarez, J.L.M., Aguilar-Amuchastegui, N. and Ellis, P.W. (2019) Carbon emissions and potential emissions reductions from low-intensity selective logging in southwestern Amazonia. Forest Ecology and Management, 439: 18-27.
Putz, F.E., Baker, T., Griscom, B.W., Gopalakrishna, T., Roopsind, A., Umunay, P.M., et al. (2019) Intact forest in selective logging landscapes in the tropics. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2. 30.
Umunay, P.M., Gregoire, T.G., Gopalakrishna, T., Ellis, P.W. and Putz, F.E. (2019) Selective logging emissions and potential emission reductions from reduced-impact logging in the Congo Basin. Forest Ecology and Management, 437: 360-371.
Fargione, J.E., Bassett, S., Boucher, T., Bridgham, S.D., Conant, R.T., Cook-Patton, S.C., Ellis, P., Falcucci, A., Fourqurean, J.W., Gopalakrishna, T., et al. (2018) Natural climate solutions for the United States. Science advances, 4(11). eaat1869.
Fisher, J.R., Montambault, J., Burford, K.P., Gopalakrishna, T., Masuda, Y.J., Reddy, S.M., et al. (2018) Knowledge diffusion within a large conservation organization and beyond. PloS one, 13(3). e0193716.
Maddie Gordon
JCR PresidentHi! My name is Maddie (she/her) and I’m a second year PPEist, and Somerville’s current JCR President.
My role as President entails leading the JCR, which consists of all the identity officers, welfare and administrative officers who represent and run the JCR. As well as leading the JCR more formally at our fortnightly Open Meetings, and sitting on college committees, I’m also always around to support students, whether they have any questions for college, welfare concerns or just want to chat!
Pelagia Goulimari
Research Fellow; Co-director, Intersectional Humanities, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)Dr Pelagia Goulimari is the Co-Director of the MSt in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Co-Director of Intersectional Humanities at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), and a Senior Fellow in Feminist Studies.
Her research interests include fiction and non-fictional prose in English (1790-present); women’s writing; literary theory and criticism; the modern and the postmodern. She teaches on Literature in English from 1740 to present day; Introduction to Literary Studies; women’s writing; literary theory and criticism; and feminist writing and theory.
She is also the founder and General Editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, published by Routledge. Established in 1993, Angelaki is an international journal in literary and cultural theory and Continental philosophy published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes four themed and two open, ‘General’, issue per volume. Angelaki is one of the most accessed of Routledge’s 200+ arts and humanities journals (c. 100,000 full-text downloads and c. 2,500 libraries in 2021). Included in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, it is ranked A* in the literature category in the European Reference Index for Humanities of the European Science Foundation. In 1996, it was awarded ‘Best New Journal’ by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. It has published over 1000 articles, including work by: Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Andrew Benjamin, Homi K. Bhabha, Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons, Alain Caillé, Barbara Cassin, Howard Caygill, Monique David-Menard, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Costas Douzinas, Alexander García Düttmann, Michèle Le Doeuff, Mike Gane, Lawrence Grossberg, Félix Guattari, Donna Haraway, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Ihab Hassan, Leslie Hill, Peggy Kamuf, John Kinsella, Friedrich Kittler, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Douglas Kellner, Jacques Lacan, Ernesto Laclau, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, John O’Neill, Jacques Rancière, Nicholas Rand, Bill Readings, Leonard Rosmarin, Nicholas Royle, Stella Sandford, Michel Serres, Paul Virilio, Robyn Wiegman, Robert Young, Slavoj Žižek.
Pelagia’s books include: Toni Morrison (Routledge, 2009), Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism (Routledge, 2014) and the edited collections, Postmodernism: What Moment? (Manchester UP, 2007), Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future (Routledge, 2017), and Love and Vulnerability: Thinking with Pamela Sue Anderson (Routledge, 2020).
She is the Editor-in-Chief of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Routledge). She is also one of four Associate Editors of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory (4 vols. Oxford UP. January 2022, hardback. 2020–, online)
Her publications in 2020 and 2021 include: The Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Literary Theory (Oxford UP), 4 vols., co-edited with John Frow et al, where she is also contributing articles on “Genders” and “Feminist Theory”; and the article, “‘Where are you (really) from?’ Transgender Ethics, Ethics of Unknowing, and Transformative Adoptionin Jackie Kay’s Trumpet and Toni Morrison’s Jazz” in the edited collection, Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics, ed. Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George (Routledge). Her edited collection, After Modernism: Women, Gender, Race is forthcoming in 2022.
Manuele Gragnolati
Senior Research Fellow; Professor of Italian Literature, University of Paris-Sorbonne; Associate Director, ICI BerlinManuele Gragnolati is Full Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and Associate Director of the ICI Berlin, as well as Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.
He studied Classical Philology, Medieval Studies, and Italian Literature at the Universities of Pavia (BA and MA), Paris IV-Sorbonne (MA) and Columbia in NYC (PhD).
Before joining the University of Paris-Sorbonne, he taught at Dartmouth College from 1999 to 2003 and from 2003 to 2015 at the University of Oxford, where he was Full Professor of Italian Literature. A significant part of his research, including his first monograph “Experiencing the Afterlife”, focuses on Dante and medieval literature and culture, especially on the significance of corporeality in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century eschatology.
He is also interested in the concept of linguistic subjectivity from Dante’s “Vita Nova” to the present, in modern appropriations of medieval texts, and in feminist and queer theory. He has written a substantial commentary on Dante’s Rime and published essays on medieval and modern authors. His second monograph “Amor che move” offers a ‘diffractive’ exploration of body, language, desire in Dante and authors who have engaged with Dante’s oeuvre in the late twentieth century from a “feminine”/feminist and queer position.
Manuele Gragnolati enjoys studying and teaching literature for its critical potential to challenge normative ways of thinking and is particularly interested in texts that propose different figurations of reality, whether in the past or in the present. He believes in an interdisciplinary approach to culture and in collaborating with colleagues with different intellectual histories and backgrounds. At the ICI Berlin he has run several interdisciplinary projects on Dante, Elsa Morante, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, which have often resulted in collective volumes.
Books / Edited Volumes
The Oxford Handbook of Dante, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi et Francesca Southerden (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
‘Petrolio’ 25 anni dopo. Biopolitica, eros e verità nell’ultimo romanzo di Pier Paolo Pasolini, ed. by Carla Benedetti, Manuele Gragnolati, and Davide Luglio (Macerata, Quodlibet, 2020)
Amor che move. Linguaggio del corpo e forma del desiderio in Dante, Pasolini e Morante (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2013)
The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Traditions, Geographies, co-ed. with Luca Di Blasi and Christoph F. E. Holzhey (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012)
Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations and Rewritings in the Twentieth- and Twenty-first Centuries, co-ed. with Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2011)
Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, co-ed. with Sara Fortuna and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010)
Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
Articles
‘L’estetica queer di Petrolio, il gioco e il paradosso dell’impegno’, in ‘Petrolio’ 25 anni dopo, ed. by Carla Benedetti, Manuele Gragnolati, and Davide Luglio (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2020), pp. 63–77; with Christoph Holzhey
‘Insegnare con un classico. La complessità di Dante e lo spirito critic’, in In cattedra. Il docente universitario in otto autoritratti, ed. by Chiara Cappelletto (Milano: Cortina, 2019), pp. 177–214
‘Autobiografia d’autore’, Dante Studies, 136 (2018), p. 143–160; with Elena Lombardi
‘Zwischen Unsterblichkeit und Auferstehung: das körperliche Jenseits der Göttlichen Komödie’, Deutsches Dante Jahrbuch, 93 (2018), pp. 56–72
‘Una performance senza gerarchia: la riscrittura bi-stabile della Vita nova’, in Vita nova. Fiore. Epistola XIII, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Luca Carlo Rossi, Paola Allegretti, Natascia Tonelli, and Alberto Casadei (Firenze: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018), pp. 67–86
‘From Paradox to Exclusivity: Dante’s and Petrarch’s Lyrical Eschatologies’, in The Unity of Knowledge in Pre-modern World: Petrarca and Boccaccio between Middle Ages and Early Renaissance (with Francesca Southerden), ed. by Igor Candido (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), pp. 129–52
‘Active Passivity? Spinoza in Pasolini’s Porcile‘ (with Christoph F. E. Holzhey), world picture, 10 (2015), pp. 1–10
‘Differently Queer: Sexuality and Aesthetics in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio and Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli’, in Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing: Rethinking Subjectivity, History and the Power of Art, ed. by Stefania Lucamante (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014), pp. 205–18
‘Gluttony and the Anthropology of Pain in Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio’, in History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person, ed. by Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 238–50
Eleanor Grant
Clinical Non-Stipendiary LecturerTamsin Greene-Barker
Student Welfare AdvisorHello, I’m Tamsin and it is my pleasure to serve as an On-Call Student Welfare Advisor at Somerville College. I’m from Ireland and currently reading for a DPhil in Social Policy and Intervention. I care deeply about improving young people’s mental health, so much so that this is the focus of my research. In my spare time, I row with Wolfson College Boat Club and train with Linacre Ladies that Lift. I also enjoy walks in the countryside and exploring Oxford’s beautiful libraries.
Studying at Oxford can be wonderful but also very challenging. If you have any questions, welfare concerns (big or small) or would simply like a friendly face to chat to, please get in touch. The On-Call Student Welfare Advisors are here to support you throughout your time at Somerville College and I would be delighted to hear from you.
Student Welfare Advisors are available to support students in crisis overnight and at weekends. We provide a listening, support and signposting service. We can listen, provide guidance and support if you’re experiencing difficulties such as personal problems, poor mental health, or other welfare/wellbeing matters.
I have undertaken the following training for my role as Student Welfare Advisor:
- First Aid Training offer by St John’s Ambulance
- Junior Deans Training offered by the University Counselling Service
- Health and Safety Training – Somerville Lodge Porters
- Fire Evacuation Training – Somerville Lodge Porters
- Welfare Policy and Procedures – Student Welfare Lead
- College Rules and Procedures – Decanal Officer
- Supporting Refugee Students – We Belong
Minshu Gupta
JCR Ethnic Minorities OfficerAlonso Gurmendi
Departmental LecturerAlonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford, in association with Somerville College, as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Alonso holds a Ph.D. from UCL Laws, where he researched the history of the laws of war in the 19th and early 20th century, foregrounding the work of actors in Latin America, South West Africa and East Asia, among others. His book, Conflicto Armado en el Perú: La Época del Terrorismo bajo el Derecho Internacional, published by Universidad del Pacífico Press in 2019, addresses the role of international humanitarian law in Peru’s post-conflict reconciliation process. He is also a contributing editor for the international law blog Opinio Juris. His research focuses on the history of international legal politics, with a particular interest on the regulation of war and political violence, as well as on postcolonial approaches to international politics.
Sarah Gurr
Senior Research Fellow; Chair in Food Security, Exeter UniversityFrom 2020-23, Sarah Gurr’s research interests in crop disease, with particular emphasis on fungal infestations and in their global movement and control, have led to a series of high impact publications and invitations to speak all over the world. Amongst these recent publications are:-
- Stukenbrock, E and Gurr, SJ (2023) Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops. Nature 617 31-34
- Johns, LE, Bebber, B, Gurr, SJ and Brown, NA (2022) Health threat and cost of Fusarium mycotoxins in European wheat. Nature Food 3 1014–1019
- Cannon, S, Kay, W, Kilaru, S, Schuster, M, Gurr SJ and Steinberg, G (2022) Multi-site fungicides suppress banana Panama disease, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4. PLoS Pathogens https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal. ppat.1010860 (SG and GS as CAs)
- Kilaru, S, Fantozzi, E, Cannon, S, Schuster, M, Chaloner, T, Aragones, CA, Gurr, SJ and Steinberg,G (2022) Zymoseptoria tritici white-collar complex integrates light, temperature and plant cues to initiate dimorphism and pathogenesis. Nature Communications 13, Article number: 5625
- Fisher, M et al (2022) Tackling the emerging threat of antifungal resistance to human health. Nature Microbiology Reviews https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-022-00720-1
- Chaloner, T, Gurr, SJ Bebber, DP (2021) The global burden of plant disease tracks yield under climate change Nature Climate Change https://www.nature.com/art/s41558-021-01104-8
- Fones, H, Bebber, D, Chaloner, T, Kay, William T, Steinberg, G, Gurr, SJ (2020) Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens. Nature Food doi: 10.1038/s43016-020-0075.
- Chaloner, T, Gurr, SJ, Bebber, D (2020) Geometry and evolution of the ecological niche in plant-associated microbes. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16778-5.
- Steinberg, G, Schuster, M, Gurr, SJ, Schrader, M, Wood, M, Kilaru, S (2020) A lipophilic cation protects crops against fungal pathogens by multiple modes of action Nature Communications https://doi.org/ 10.1038/s4146-020-14949-y.
- Patents – Antifungal compositions WO2020201698A1 and GB2202216.4
There have been 5 press releases associated with these papers and some of this work featured in articles in The Guardian; The New York Times (Children’s board game “monkey puzzle” Christmas Day 2022); The Toronto Star; The Daily Mail; The Independent; as well as on BBC World News, Live Science News Hour and various other media channels.
Over the past 2 years Sarah has been appointed to The International Advisory Board at SLU University, Uppsala, as Advisor to The Scottish Government on Plant Health (RESAS) and as a member of Plant Heath Scotland (James Hutton Institute). She has also been elected to Board of Trustees of The Rank Foundation, the East Malling Research Trust and The Wolfson Science and Medicine committee.
She holds a Visiting Professorship at Utrecht University, is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by SLU Uppsala. Her work with UK and Scottish Government has guided to a policy paper and a Parliamentary Bill (Plant Health and Biosecurity, and Crops and Gene Editing, 2022 and 2023).
Journal articles
Bebber DP, Gurr SJ (In Press). Biotic interactions and climate in species distribution modelling.
Chaloner TM, Gurr SJ, Bebber DP (In Press). Geometry and evolution of the ecological niche in plant-associated microbes.
Gurr SJ, McPherson MJ, Atkinson HJ (In Press). Identification of plant genes expressed at the feeding site of the potato cyst nematode. Journal Cell Biochemistry, 56, 121-131.
Bebber DP, Field E, Heng G, Mortimer P, Holmes T, Gurr S (In Press). Many unreported crop pests and pathogens are probably already present. Global Change Biology
Chaloner TM, Gurr SJ, Bebber DP (In Press). The global burden of plant disease tracks crop yields under climate change.
Gurr SJ, Field D, Garrity G, Selengut J, Sterk P, Tatusova T, Thomson N, Ashburner M, Boore JL, Cochrane G, et al (In Press). Towards richer descriptions of our collection of genomes and metagenomes. Nature Biotechnology, 16, LBNL-60477.
Steinberg G, Schuster M, Gurr SJ, Schrader TA, Schrader M, Wood M, Early A, Kilaru S (2020). A lipophilic cation protects crops against fungal pathogens by multiple modes of action. Nat Commun, 11(1).
Lisa Gygax
Joint Secretary of the Somerville AssociationLisa Gygax (1987, PPE) has been Liz Cooke’s ‘apprentice’ since 2014. In her role as joint Secretary to the Alumni Association she shares Liz’s keen interest in the myriad of pursuits that Somervillians get up to after leaving Oxford. Her role extends to stewarding our various alumni networks.
Joost Haddinga
MCR SU RepresentativeMy name is Joost and I am a postgraduate student reading for an MSc in Economic and Social History. As the 23-24 SU representative I am taking care of the connections of the Somerville MCR with the student union and hope to lend voice to all issues arising in Somerville College. In my free time you either find me out on the hockey pitch or in the library reading.
Professor Joanna Haigh CBE
Honorary FellowJoanna Haigh studies the influence of the Sun on the Earth’s climate. Energy emitted by the Sun — in the form of heat, light and ultraviolet radiation — warms the Earth and drives its climate.
Using data from satellites and modelling the processes, Joanna is helping to untangle the warming effects of greenhouse gases from those of natural variations in solar energy.
She has transformed our ability to predict the behaviour of the atmosphere and climate by integrating ideas from physics to produce computationally fast yet accurate models. Methods developed by Joanna are now used by researchers worldwide and incorporate the finest details of climate processes and solar influence.
Joanna has received major prizes for her work on solar influences on climate, including the Chree Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2004 and the Adrian Gill Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2010. She was the President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2012–2014. In 2013, she was awarded a CBE for services to physics.