Reviewing responsibilities

Editorial Board Memberships:
2007 – Present : Immunology
2004 – 2007 : Biochemical Journal
Ad hoc (regular) reviewer for many Journals incl. Nature Immunology, Nature Cell Biology, J. Exp. Med., PNAS,
Immunity, Nature Methods, Nature Biotech., Science Signaling, J. Cell Biol., Biophys. J., EMBO Reports, Trends in Immunol, Trends in Cell Biol, Nature Rev Immunol, Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, Blood, Biochemistry, J. Immunol., Eur. J. Immunol., J. Gen Virol., Immunology, J. Microscopy, Meas. Sci. Tech, Immunol. Letts., Int. Immunol., Physics Today, FEBS Letters.
Ad hoc reviewer for Grant and Fellowship awarding bodies including: MRC (UK), Wellcome Trust, BBSRC (UK) EPSRC (UK), NIH, Science Foundation Ireland, Irish Research Council, Wellcome Trust Arts Awards, Singapore Stem Cell Consortium, Help the Aged (UK Charity), NSF (USA), EMBO (Eur), NKRF (UK), Hong Kong Government, The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, Singapore Immunology Network, Israel Science Foundation.
Regular (annual since 2004) interviews for EMBO Long Term Fellowships, Assessment of Short Term Fellowships. PhD thesis examiner (e.g. Cambridge University - several, Cancer Research UK/UCL, Strathclyde University, Utrecht University).
External reviewer for promotions/tenure (e.g. Johns Hopkins Med School, Weizmann Institute, Texas SouthWestern).

Broad communication of science:

2012/3: Penguin Press will publish my popular-level book on immunology, provisionally entitled ‘The Big Inheritance’.
2009: Feature article published on membrane nanotubes, including interview, in Science News.
2008: Interview for The Guardian newspaper on GFP (following Nobel Prize). Article published Oct 10th 2008.
2008: Interview for Feature Article on nanotubes in New Scientist magazine. Article published Nov 15th 2008.
2008: Friday Evening Discourse at The Royal Instituion, Oct 10th 2008
2007: BBC filmed an experiment performed by my laboratory for broadcast in ‘The History of Transplantation’, first shown on BBC FOUR, Sept 3rd 2008.
2007: Interview for PharmaTechnology magazine and for NanotechWeb, an Institute of Physics online publication.
2007 – Advised the British Society of Immunology on outreach activities including web-page design.
2006: Note with pictures published in Muy Interesante Magazine, a popular science magazine in Spain.
2006: Article commissioned for Scientific American.
2005: Interview for U. Pittsburgh newsletter.
2005: Interview broadcast on Public Radio, USA.
2005: Article published in Leica’s European Research magazine.
April 2005: Public Lecture at The Royal Institution for the University of the Third Age.
Aug and Dec 2004: Work featured in editorials in journal Science.
June 2003: Presented work at The Royal Society Summer Exhibition.
Jan 2003 - Feature article in BBSRC 'Business' quarterly magazine.
Dec 2002 - Feature article in 'Optics & Photonics News'.
Sept 2001 - Interview with Robyn Williams for 'The Science Show', Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Sept 2000 - Essay published in The Times Higher Education Supplement.
March 2000 - Public Lecture at The Royal Institution.
Feb 2000 - ‘The Times’ newspaper published a feature article on me and my research entitled ‘Hot on the trail of Natural Killer cells’.

In 2000, I designed and ran a 2 day 'Master Class' for 49 school students aged 17. Activities included a 2-day laboratory experiment, presentations of my own research, videos and computer animations, demonstration of laser scanning confocal microscopy, and research discussions. I have brought several speakers to our various seminar programs including: Sir John Sulston (winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine), Profs. Jack Strominger (Harvard), Andrew McMichael FRS, Anton van der Merwe, Gillian Griffiths, Simon Davis, Facundo Batista, Nigel Burroughs, Theresa Ward, Kirsty Newman, Charles Bangham, Frank Uhlmann, Peter Friedl, Yenan Bryceson (NIH & Karolinska), Petter Hoglund (Karolinska Institute), Ofer Mandelboim (Hebrew University), Mark Davis (Stanford University), Peter Parham (Stanford), Nicholas Gascoigne (Scripps).