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David Turner

Dr David Turner
BSc (Hons) PhD FHEA CBiol MRSB

Group Leader & Lecturer in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Musculoskeletal & Ageing Science
Part of
Institute of Life Course & Medical Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Contact

David.Turner@liverpool.ac.uk

The Liverpool Development and Stem Cell Lab

Professional Activities

Selected Professional Activities

Conference Role

  • Teaching at the Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course in the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France, 2023) (Conference Role)
  • 5th European NF-kB Subunit Workshop, by Invitation (Porto, Portugal, 2022) (Conference Role)

Internal Administrative or Committee Role

  • ILCMS Postgraduate Teaching Lead (School / Institute, 2023 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Academic Lead - Tissue Culture (School / Institute, 2022 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Independent Progress Assessment (IPAP) (Department, 2019 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • REF 2021 PLANNING GROUP FOR UNIT OF ASSESSMENT 6 (Faculty, 2019 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)

Professional Body Membership

  • British Society for Developmental Biology (Member, 2012 - present) (Professional Body Membership)

Conference Roles

  • Teaching at the Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course in the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France, 2023)
  • BSDB 2023 (Sheffield, 2023)
  • Mercia Stem Cell Alliance (Nottingham, 2023)
  • Seminar in University of Lancaster, by Invitation (University of Lancaster, 2022)
  • BSMB Meeting, by Invitation (Liverpool, 2022)
  • Teaching at the Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course in the Pasteur Institute, by Invitation (Paris, France, 2022)
  • 5th European NF-kB Subunit Workshop, by Invitation (Porto, Portugal, 2022)
  • Joint IBIN/3DbioNet Meeting, by Invitation (London, 2020)
  • Postdoc Masterclass, by Invitation (2018 - 2019)
  • 3DBioNet workshop, by Invitation (2018 - 2019)
  • Teaching at the Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course in the Pasteur Institute, by Invitation (2019)
  • CamBioScience: Discovering Gastruloids, by Invitation (Cambridge, 2019)

Editorships

  • BMC Developmental Biology (Associate Editor, 2019 - present)

Event Roles

  • CamBioScience Gastruloid Course (Workshop, Cambridge, 2019)

Examination Roles

  • University of Edinburgh, PhD Examination (2024)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD Examination (2024)
  • University of Manchester, PhD Examination (2024)
  • Edge Hill University, Masters (MRes) (MPhil, 2024)
  • University of Liverpool, PhD Examination (2023)
  • University of Leicester, PhD Examination (2022)
  • University of Cambridge, Masters (MPhil, 2020 - present)
  • University of Liverpool, MRes Clinical Sciences (MPhil, 2020 - present)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • NC3Rs Project Grant Assessment Committee, Invited (National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research, 2023 - 2026)
  • BSDB Committee Member, Invited (British Society for Developmental Biology, 2023 - 2025)
  • Co-Supervisor for PhD Student (Chester), Invited (University of Chester, 2020 - 2023)

Grant Application Assessments

  • External Post-submission (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2023)
  • External Post-submission (European Commission, 2023)
  • External Post-submission (Hong Kong Jockey Club, 2022)
  • External Post-submission (Medical Research Council (MRC), 2022)
  • External Post-submission (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2021)
  • Internal Pre-submission (European Commission, 2021)
  • Internal Pre-submission (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2020)
  • Internal Pre-submission (Wellcome Trust, 2020)
  • Internal Pre-submission (Medical Research Council (MRC), 2020 - present)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • ILCMS Postgraduate Teaching Lead (School / Institute, 2023 - present)
  • Academic Lead - Tissue Culture (School / Institute, 2022 - present)
  • Independent Progress Assessment (IPAP) (Department, 2019 - 2023)
  • REF 2021 PLANNING GROUP FOR UNIT OF ASSESSMENT 6 (Faculty, 2019 - present)

Media Appearances

  • People behind the papers, The Node (Invited, November 2017)
  • Self-organising ‘gastruloids’ mimic early development of mouse embryos, NC3Rs Website (Invited, October 2018)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Higher Education Academy (Fellow (FHEA), 2021 - present)
  • The Royal Society of Biology (Member (MRSB); Chartered Biologist (CBiol), 2010 - present)
  • British Society for Developmental Biology (Member, 2012 - present)

Publication Reviews

  • Reviewer, Invited (Scientific Reports, Pre-publication, 2022)
  • Reviewer (Development, Pre-publication, 2022)
  • Peer reviewer, Invited (BioEssays, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
  • Reviewer, Invited (Stem Cell Research and Therapy, Pre-publication, 2019 - present)