Alison Woollard

Alison Woollard (born 1968) is a British biologist. She is a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford^[3][4][5] where she is also a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.^[1]

Alison Woollard
Born	Alison Claire S. Woollard[citation needed] 1968 (age 56–57) [citation needed] Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England
Alma mater	Birkbeck College, London University of Oxford
Awards	Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2013)
Scientific career
Institutions	University College, London Birkbeck College, London[1] Hertford College, Oxford MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Thesis	Cell cycle control in fission yeast (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Nurse[2]
Website	https://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=606

Early life and education

Woollard was born in 1968 in Kingston-upon-Thames.^{[citation needed]}

Woollard was educated at University of London, gaining her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences in 1991 and gained her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford on fission yeast supervised by Paul Nurse in 1995.^[2][6]

Academic career

Woollard moved to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in 1995.^[7] Her research focuses on developmental biology of the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans^[8][9][10] particularly RUNX genes.^[11][12]

She is currently the Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research at the University of Oxford, a post which she has held since 2017.^[13][14]

Awards and honours

In 2013 Woollard presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.^[2][15][16] She has also been interviewed on the BBC radio programme The Life Scientific.^[17]