Dr. Donna MacCallum PhD FHEA FRSB
Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Teaching Lead (School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition)
Research Focus
Fungal pathogenesis, animal infection models and antifungal drug development
Scientific Activities
Dr MacCallum is an fungal researcher in experimental infection models and fungal virulence, and is an advocate of the 3Rs in research. She is currently the Treasurer of ISHAM, and has previously served as the Treasurer of the British Society for Medical Mycology (BSMM) and has served on the Microbiology Society Eukaryotic Committee.
Dr MacCallum is the current Programme Coordinator of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology MRes in Medical Mycology Programme, as well as the MSc programmes in Microbiology and Genetics at the University of Aberdeen. Dr MacCallum is also an Editor of the journal Medical Mycology.
Dr MacCallum is actively involved in public engagement and has received public engagement funding from the Microbiology Society, NC3Rs and the Royal Society (a partnership grant with a local primary school).
Significant Publications
iu, Z., Moran, G. P., Sullivan, D. J., MacCallum, D. M. & Myers, L. C (2016). Amplification of TLO Mediator Subunit Genes Facilitate Filamentous Growth in Candida Spp. PLoS Genetics. 12, 10, p. e1006373
D. S. Childers, I. Raziunaite, G. Mol Avelar, J. Mackie, S. Budge, D. Stead, N. A. R. Gow, M. D. Lenardon, E. R. Ballou, D. M. MacCallum, A. J. P. Brown (2016). The rewiring of ubiquitination targets in a pathogenic yeast promotes metabolic flexibility, host colonization and virulence. PLoS Pathogens 12: e1005566
E. K. Szabo and D. M. MacCallum (2014). A novel renal epithelial cell in vitro assay to assess Candida albicans virulence. Virulence 5(2): 1-11 doi: 10.4161/viru.27046
Collaborators
Prof. Neil Gow FRS, FMedSci, FRSE, FRSB, FAAM
Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Impact and Professor of Microbiology
More about Prof. Neil Gow...Prof. Alistair J P Brown
Assistant Professor Yeast and Fermentation
More about Prof. Alistair J P Brown...Prof. Carol Munro
Professor
More about Prof. Carol Munro...Prof. Gordon D. Brown
Professor
More about Prof. Gordon D. Brown...Dr. Rebecca Hall PhD
MRC Career Development Award Fellow
More about Dr. Rebecca Hall...Prof. Janet Quinn
Professor of Eukaryotic Microbiology
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Contact information
MRC Centre for Medical Mycology
Institute of Medical Sciences
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD
Email: d.m.maccallum@abdn.ac.uk
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