Dr Dominic Alonzi

Subject: Biology, Plant Sciences and Zoology

Department: Biochemistry

Background

I read Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at Corpus Christi, Oxford before reading for a DPhil at Linacre College with Dr Terry Butters and Prof Raymond Dwek, CBE, FRS at the Oxford Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry.

Teaching and Research Interests

I lecture in Glycobiology to Biochemistry undergraduates and teach a variety of cell biology and biological chemistry topics to biochemistry undergraduates via tutorials: enzymes, drug design, virology, protein structure and function, cell membranes and metabolism. I also tutor the medical and biomedical science students at Magdalen.

My research involves working in the field of glycobiology. Glycobiology has made major contributions to understanding concepts in protein folding, immunology and virology, laying the foundations for applying glycobiology to the development of novel strategies for therapeutics. Inhibitors of the glycosylation pathway can perturb glycan dependent protein folding in the ER with clinically relevant broad-spectrum antiviral properties, with a class of small molecule inhibitors known as iminosugars leading the research in this field. I examine how these small molecule inhibitors can have an affect on a number of cellular targets to enhance and elucidate their therapeutic potential and multiple mechanisms of action.

Selected Publications

Department Staff

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Dr Lauren Phillips

Department: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Academic position: Fellow by Examination

Email: lauren.phillips@pharm.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Rebecca Shakir

Department: Medicine

Academic position: Sherrington Lecturer

Email: rebecca.shakir@ndph.ox.ac.uk

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Professor Sir Adrian Hill KBE

Department: Medicine

Email: adrian.hill@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 617611

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Professor Michael Goldacre

Department: Population Health

Email: michael.goldacre@dph.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 289377

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Professor Gero Miesenböck

Department: Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Appointment: Professorial Fellow

Email: gero.miesenboeck@cncb.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 282261

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Professor Lars Østergaard

Department: Biology

Appointment: Professorial Fellow

Academic position: Sherardian Professor of Botany

Officer: Garden Master

Email: lars.ostergaard@biology.ox.ac.uk

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Professor John Stein

Appointment: Emeritus Fellow

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The Revd Professor Robert Gilbert

Department: Biochemistry and Medicine

Appointment: Tutorial Fellow, Vice President

Email: robert.gilbert@magd.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 276070

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Professor Tim Barraclough

Professor Timothy Barraclough

Department: Biology

Appointment: Tutorial Fellow

Academic position: Professor of Zoology

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Dr Lydia France

Department: Biology

Academic position: Lecturer I

Email: lydia.france@biology.ox.ac.uk

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Professor Quentin Sattentau

Department: Pathology

Appointment: Emeritus Fellow

Email: quentin.sattentau@magd.ox.ac.uk

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Professor Hugh Dickinson

Email: hugh.dickinson@biology.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Eveliina Hanski

Academic position: Stipendiary Lecturer in Biology

Email: eveliina.hanski@biology.ox.ac.uk

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Professor Teresa Thurston

Academic position: Official Fellowship as Tutor in Cell and Molecular Biology, in association with an Associate Professorship of Cell and Molecular Biology

Email: teresa.thurston@path.ox.ac.uk

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Professor Laura Fortunato

Department: Anthropology

Appointment: Tutorial Fellow

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Professor Andrew Smith

Department: Biology

Appointment: Emeritus Fellow

Email: andrew.smith@biology.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 275009

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Chris Garland

Professor Chris Garland

Department: Pharmacology

Appointment: Tutorial Fellow

Officer: Senior Dean of Arts

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Sir Peter Ratcliffe Oxford

Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe

Department: Nuffield Department of Medicine

Appointment: Fellow by Special Election

Email: peter.ratcliffe@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 612680

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Dr Maheshi Ramasamy

Department: Paediatrics

Appointment: Florey Lecturer and Fellow by Special Election

Academic position: Associate Professor

Email: maheshi.ramasamy@magd.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Tin Hang (Henry) Hung

Department: Biology

Academic position: Lecturer I in Biology

Email: tin-hang.hung@biology.ox.ac.uk

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Professor Richard Cornall

Department: Medicine

Appointment: Professorial Fellow

Academic position: Nuffield Professor of Medicine, Head of Department

Email: richard.cornall@ndm.ox.ac.uk

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Professor Peter Sullivan

Department: Paediatrics

Email: peter.sullivan@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 07825 335477

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Dr Sebastian Fica

Department: Biochemistry

Appointment: Senior Demy

Email: sebastian.fica@bioch.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Zhe (Luke) Ji

Academic position: Calleva Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: zhe.ji@biology.ox.ac.uk

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Professor Stephen Goodwin

Department: Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Appointment: Tutorial Fellow

Email: stephen.goodwin@cncb.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 272454