# Ilan Davis

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**Professor Ilan Davis**[1] is a Professor of Spatial Molecular Biology (Molecular Biosciences), [University of Glasgow](/source/University_of_Glasgow). From 2007 to 2023 was a professor of Cell Biology and Wellcome Investigator at the Department of Biochemistry, [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford). Previously (1996-2007) he was a Professor and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow (2002-2007) at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh). In 2011, he was elected as an [EMBO](/source/The_EMBO_Journal) fellow.

## Education

Davis studied Natural Sciences (Genetics) at [King’s College, Cambridge](/source/King%E2%80%99s_College,_Cambridge), earning a BA in 1986. He then went on to complete a DPhil in Developmental Biology in 1990 under the supervision of [David Ish-Horowicz](/source/David_Ish-Horowicz) at the Department of Zoology at [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford). Davis completed postdoctoral research from 1992 to 1995 at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, [UCSF](/source/University_of_California,_San_Francisco), in [Patrick H. O'Farrell](/source/Patrick_H._O'Farrell)’s laboratory, with a Nato SERC postdoctoral fellowship followed by a Boyer postdoctoral Fellowship.

## Research

His work focuses on the mechanism of mRNA transport [2] and localised translation [3] in the *Drosophila* nervous system.

Davis previously held, as the principal applicant, a Wellcome Career Development Fellowship, Lister Senior Fellowship (2000-2002), three Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowships (2002-2017), two Wellcome Trust Strategic Awards (2010-2021), MRC grant for Nanoscopy Oxford (2015-2020) and currently a Wellcome Investigator Award (2017-2023).

## Selected publications

- Gala, D. S., Titlow, J. S., Teodoro, R. O., & Davis, I. (2023). Far from home: the role of glial mRNA localization in synaptic plasticity. RNA, 29(2), 153-169.
- Titlow, J. S., Kiourlappou, M., Palanca, A., Lee, J. Y., Gala, D. S., Ennis, D., ... & Davis, I. (2022). Systematic analysis of YFP gene traps reveals common discordance between mRNA and protein across the nervous system. bioRxiv, 2022-03.
- Lee, J. Y., Wing, P. A., Gala, D. S., Noerenberg, M., Järvelin, A. I., Titlow, J., ... & Davis, I. (2022). Absolute quantitation of individual SARS-CoV-2 RNA molecules provides a new paradigm for infection dynamics and variant differences. Elife, 11, e74153.
- Gala, D. S., Lee, J. Y., Kiourlappou, M. S., Titlow, J. S., Teodoro, R. O., & Davis, I. (2022). Mammalian glial protrusion transcriptomes predict localization of Drosophila glial transcripts required for synaptic plasticity. bioRxiv, 2022-11.
- Wickenhagen, A., Sugrue, E., Lytras, S., Kuchi, S., Noerenberg, M., Turnbull, M. L., ... & Wilson, S. J. (2021). A prenylated dsRNA sensor protects against severe COVID-19. Science, 374(6567), eabj3624.

## References

1. ["Prof Ilan Davis, School of molecular Biosciences"](https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/molecularbiosciences/staff/ilandavis/)

1. Parton, RM; Hamilton, RS; Ball, G; Yang, L; Cullen, CF; Lu, W; Ohkura, H; Davis, I (2011). "A PAR-1–dependent orientation gradient of dynamic microtubules directs posterior cargo transport in the *Drosophila* oocyte.". *The Journal of Cell Biology*. **194**: 121–135. [doi:10.1083/jcb.201103160](https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201103160). [PMC 3135408](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135408). [PMID 21746854](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21746854)

1. Weil, TT; Parton, RM; Herpers, B; Soetaert, J; Veenendaal, T; Xanthakis, D; Dobbie, IM; Halstead, JM; Hayashi, R; Rabouille, C; Davis, I (2012). "*Drosophila* patterning is established by differential association of mRNAs with P bodies.". *Nature Cell Biology*. **14** (12): 1305–1315. [doi:10.1038/ncb2627](https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb2627). [PMC 4066581](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066581). [PMID 23178881](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23178881)

## External links

- [Lab web site](http://www.ilandavis.com/)
- [Google Scholar profile](https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=WsZKjPwAAAAJ)

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