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   The language of lipids

   AcademiaNet interview with Prof. Valerie O'Donnell

   12.04.2017 | In this AcademiaNet interview, Professor O'Donnell tells us about her research on the relationship between lipids, aspirin and inflammation.

   
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   Cancer: Faulty DNA or Faulty DNA Repair Systems

   09.11.2016 | Cancer can occur when things go wrong in our genes, but also occur when the processes to fix damaged genes goes wrong. AcademiaNet members Dr. Elisabetta Citterio, Dr. Michela Di Virgilio (photo), Dr. Jacqueline Jacobs and Prof. Rocio Sotillo study the mechanisms of DNA repair.

   
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   All About Hormones: Endocrinology

   27.07.2016 | Four AcademiaNet researchers are presented who study steroid hormones: Wiebke Arlt, Elisabet Stener-Victorin (photo), Inger Sundström Poromaa and Mirjam Christ-Crain.

   
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   Globalisation of the Distant Past

   About Nicole Boivin, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Archaeology at University of Oxford

   05.05.2016 | Archaeologist Nicole Boivin studies how humans have become connected across the world, using plant, animal and linguistic evidence. Soon she will start as Max Planck director at the Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

   
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   Nerve and blood vessel growth: "It's a really fundamental process"

   Interview with Professor Christiana Ruhrberg, Professor of Neuronal and Vascular Biology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

   10.03.2016 | Christiana Ruhrberg studies how nerves and blood vessels grow and branch. Her research has shown how the body uses the same set of molecular signals to instigate blood vessel growth and nerve growth in the eye and brain.

   
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   "Communicating the wonders of the past to the present"

   Interview with Professor Pamela Robertson, Professor of Mackintosh Studies at the University of Glasgow

   13.01.2016 | Professor Pamela Robertson has spent her career studying the life and work of Glasgow's famous son Charles Rennie Mackintosh, an architect, designer and artist. She presents his achievements to the public through exhibitions, publications and public events programmes.

   
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   Details of Plant Immunity

   Interview with Prof. Silke Robatzek, Group Leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich

   08.12.2015 | Silke Robatzek studies the 'frontline' between plants and pathogens. Her findings on how plants recognise and fight off infectious invaders could help develop food crops that have broad-spectrum resistance to disease.

   
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   Inside Immigration Detention Centres

   Interview with Mary Bosworth, Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford

   18.11.2015 | Mary Bosworth studies the highly controversial subject of immigration detention centres from all angles and talks to detainees and employees alike.

   
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   Building Nanostructures Atom by Atom

   AcademiaNet interview with Nicole Grobert, Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford

   21.10.2015 | Nicole Grobert studies the intricacies of how carbon nanomaterials form, with the aim of creating uniform and effective new materials for the healthcare sector and the advanced automotive, consumer, and power electronics industries.

   
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    "This current era of brain research is very invigorating"

    AcademiaNet interview with Prof. Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Head of the Department of Neurophysiology at Ruhr University Bochum

    03.09.2015 | Professor Denise Manahan-Vaughan has discovered how weakening electrical signals, not just strengthening them, helps our brains to store memories.

    
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