Dr. Clive Wilson

Biography

Clive Wilson is a Professor in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. He specializes in Cell Developmental Genetics, employing powerful genetics and cell biology on the model organism Drosophila melanogaster to generate novel disease models and elucidate biological functions of evolutionarily conserved subcellular processes and signaling cascades. Wilson graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1983 and completed his doctorate at the University of Warwick in 1986. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Walter Gehring's lab in Basel from 1987-1990, developing an enhancer trap system to screen for transcriptional targets of Hox genes. From 1990 to 1993, he worked in Hermann Steller's lab in Cambridge, USA, investigating the role of a putative neurotrophic receptor gene in flies. After returning to the UK, he worked as a Lecturer at the University of Kent, where he collaborated with Deborah Goberdhan to identify mutations in key developmental genes affecting cell movement and stress response pathways. In 2001, he became a Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Oxford, expanding his work into cancer biology and establishing numerous collaborations to translate findings into prostate cancer models, with a focus on extracellular vesicle secretion and mTORC1 signaling pathways.

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