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Dr Phil Elks
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Dianna Bowles Lecture Theatre, B/K/018, Biology Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
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About the speaker
Dr Phil Elks
Phil graduated with a BSc (hons) in Biochemistry at the University of Warwick in 2004. He moved to Sheffield for the first time in 2004 to pursue a PhD in bone biology in a collaborative project between the then newly forming, Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics (CDBG) (with Dr Henry Roehl) and the Medical School (with Professor Peter Croucher), in which he studied the role of Wnt signalling in osteoblast formation in zebrafish.
After my PhD I did a post-doctoral project with Dr Stephen Renshaw, in which he investigated hypoxia-induced genetic signalling (HIF signalling) and its role in inflammation. During this project Phil developed the zebrafish as a model to study HIF signalling, and was awarded a European Respiratory Society (ERS) Long Term Fellowship in 2011 to study HIF’s role in infection.
Phil moved to the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, to perform the ERS Fellowship, in which he found a role for HIF in the host-defence mechanism against Tuberculosis in a zebrafish model. In 2013 Phil was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellowship to return to Sheffield and set up his research group in Infection and Immunity.
In 2015 Phil was awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from The Wellcome Trust/Royal Society, which was extended in 2020.
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Wheelchair accessible
Hearing loop