Jane Itzhaki
Scientific Writer
I am responsible for supporting PSI Investigators with writing grant applications, scientific reports, lay summaries, manuscripts and any other documentation requiring scientific input. I support PSI researchers in other areas too, for example, identifying funding opportunities and assisting with institute-wide activities including training. In my role, I work with colleagues at the PSI and more widely across university departments and externally. I am based in the PSI offices in the Old Road Campus Research Building.
I have a DPhil in cell biology from the University of Oxford and a Diploma in Science Communication from Birkbeck College. I did postdoctoral research at Oxford and at the MRC Clinical Sciences in London. Leaving research to join the Wellcome Trust in London, I worked for 15 years on a wide range of programmes. I then worked as a freelance science consultant helping researchers write grant applications and disseminate their research findings. I moved to the University of Oxford in January 2018 to work as the Research Facilitator for a new initiative called Oxford Metabolic Health and have been in my current post since October 2022.
Recent publications
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Repression of CDK1 and Other Genes with CDE and CHR Promoter Elements during DNA Damage-Induced G2/M Arrest in Human Cells
Journal article
Badie C. et al, (2000), Molecular and Cellular Biology, 20, 2358 - 2366
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Construction by gene targeting in human cells of a ‘conditional’ CDC2 mutant that rereplicates its DNA
Journal article
Itzhaki JE. et al, (1997), Nature Genetics, 15, 258 - 265
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DNA rereplication and apoptosis in human cells following repression of CDC2 gene expression.
Conference paper
Itzhaki JE. et al, (1997), EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY, 72, 103 - 103
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Hunting the genes for inherited diseases
Journal article
Itzhaki JE., (1996), Biologist, 43, 172 - 175
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Gene targeting in human somatic cells
Journal article
PORTER ACG. and ITZHAKI JE., (1993), European Journal of Biochemistry, 218, 273 - 281