10 Facts About Keith Gull

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Professor Keith Gull was born on 29 May 1948 and is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular microbiology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.

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Keith Gull was the principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2018, succeeding Michael Mingos.

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Keith Gull held a personal chair at Kent when he moved to the University of Manchester where he spent the 1990s involved with the development of the School of Biological Sciences as Head of Biochemistry and Research Dean.

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Keith Gull was Chairman of the Biochemical Society, and is a trustee of Cancer Research UK.

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Keith Gull defended his Christmas expenses claims, but not the desk lamp claim.

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Keith Gull defended the decision, claiming the snowdrops will be "fantastic", but apologised for the way in which it was made.

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In 2015, Keith Gull declined requests to clarify the status of claims made by Bongbong Marcos, son of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, about whether he finished his degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

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Keith Gull holds an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Kent.

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Keith Gull's work has provided important insights into how cells construct their cytoskeletons by modulating tubulin gene expression and protein modification.

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Keith Gull was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2010.