MRC WIMM Blog Editorial Team
The editorial team is responsible by the MRC WIMM blog, a blog aimed at a scientific, but non specialist, audience. The editorial team sets the style and content of the blog, and contributes by both writing and editing posts. They also write for other platforms, both aimed at the public and for academic audiences.
Meet the team
Cader lab | |
Alexandra Preston Drakesmith lab |
Have an idea for a post? Interested in joining the team? Contact the editorial team on blog@imm.ox.ac.uk
Latest posts
'Women, Life, Freedom' – not just a slogan
23 February 2023
In a personal blog post, Associate Professor Hashem Koohy (MRC WIMM Group Leader and RDM PI) talks about how a slogan used across the Middle East needs to be more than a slogan.
Innate Immunity: A Deadly Defence
28 November 2022
The MRC’s annual science writing competition, the Max Perutz Science Writing Prize, challenges MRC-funded PhD students to communicate the importance of their research to a non-scientifically trained audience in 800 words or less. This year, Lizzie Horton from the WIMM/HIU submitted the following excellent entry. Lizzie Horton is a DPhil student in the Rehwinkel Group.
The 2021 MRC WIMM Christmas Decorating Competition
21 December 2021
In this festive item, we look at how MRC WIMM researchers turned their science into decorations as part of the 2021 Christmas decorations competition.
One-stop shop for science at the IF Festival 2021
8 November 2021
October 2021 saw the MRC WIMM’s first in-person Public Engagement event since March 2020. The IF Oxford Festival aimed to engage people from across Oxford with current academic research. Gulnar Abdullayeva, a DPhil student in the Bodmer Group, volunteered at the MRC WIMM stall. In this piece she describes her experience.