Professor Ilan Davis
is a Professor of Spatial Molecular Biology (Molecular Biosciences),
University of Glasgow
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. From 2007 to 2023 was a professor of Cell Biology and Wellcome Investigator at the Department of Biochemistry,
University of Oxford
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. Previously (1996-2007) he was a Professor and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow (2002-2007) at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology,
University of Edinburgh
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. In 2011, he was elected as an
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fellow.
Education
Davis studied Natural Sciences (Genetics) at
King’s College, Cambridge
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, earning a BA in 1986. He then went on to complete a DPhil in Developmental Biology in 1990 under the supervision of
David Ish-Horowicz at the Department of Zoology at
University of Oxford
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. Davis completed postdoctoral research from 1992 to 1995 at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
UCSF
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, in
Patrick H. O'Farrell’s laboratory, with a Nato SERC postdoctoral fellowship followed by a Boyer postdoctoral Fellowship.
Research
His work focuses on the mechanism of mRNA transport
and localised translation
in the ''Drosophila'' nervous system.
Davis previously held, as the principal applicant, a Wellcome Career Development Fellowship, Lister Senior Fellowship (2000-2002), three Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowships (2002-2017), two Wellcome Trust Strategic Awards (2010-2021), MRC grant for Nanoscopy Oxford (2015-2020) and currently a Wellcome Investigator Award (2017-2023).
Selected publications
* Gala, D. S., Titlow, J. S., Teodoro, R. O., & Davis, I. (2023). Far from home: the role of glial mRNA localization in synaptic plasticity. RNA, 29(2), 153-169.
* Titlow, J. S., Kiourlappou, M., Palanca, A., Lee, J. Y., Gala, D. S., Ennis, D., ... & Davis, I. (2022). Systematic analysis of YFP gene traps reveals common discordance between mRNA and protein across the nervous system. bioRxiv, 2022-03.
* Lee, J. Y., Wing, P. A., Gala, D. S., Noerenberg, M., Järvelin, A. I., Titlow, J., ... & Davis, I. (2022). Absolute quantitation of individual SARS-CoV-2 RNA molecules provides a new paradigm for infection dynamics and variant differences. Elife, 11, e74153.
* Gala, D. S., Lee, J. Y., Kiourlappou, M. S., Titlow, J. S., Teodoro, R. O., & Davis, I. (2022). Mammalian glial protrusion transcriptomes predict localization of Drosophila glial transcripts required for synaptic plasticity. bioRxiv, 2022-11.
* Wickenhagen, A., Sugrue, E., Lytras, S., Kuchi, S., Noerenberg, M., Turnbull, M. L., ... & Wilson, S. J. (2021). A prenylated dsRNA sensor protects against severe COVID-19. Science, 374(6567), eabj3624.
References
External links
Lab web site
Google Scholar profile
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Living people
Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
Fellows of Reuben College, Oxford
21st-century biochemists
1964 births
20th-century biochemists