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Current
Position
Teacher of Science at Southmoor
Community School, Ryhope Road, Sunderland.
Education
and Qualifications Gained
Qualifications: PGCE, BSc, ARCS, PhD
I gained qualified teacher status on 1st August 2003 and completed
induction on 26th August 2004.
1986-1990: External
PhD at the European
Molecular Biology, Heidelberg, Germany in the laboratory
of Dr Iain Mattaj. PhD awarded
by the University
of London in December 1990.
1983-1986: Student
of Biochemistry at Imperial
College, London. Graduated with Upper Second Class Honours
in July 1986.
1976-1983: Rednock
School, Dursley, Gloucestershire.
1983: A Levels in: Mathematics (Pure with Statistics), Biology
and Chemistry.
1981: O Levels in: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Additional Mathematics,
English Language, English Literature, French and Geography.
1980: O Level in Mathematics.
Previous Work Experience
1/97-9/02: Research Associate in the Department
of Physiological Sciences, Medical School, University
of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Research Project: Calcium signaling during early Drosophila
embryogesis (BBSRC Bioimaging initiative project with Professor
Michael Whitaker and Dr Alex. McDougall).
For details see: http://petrus.ncl.ac.uk/flies
8/93-12/96: Post-Doctoral
fellowship in the laboratories of Professor
Keith Chater and Professor Sir David Hopwood at the John
Innes Centre, Norwich.
Research Project: "Regulation of Cell Division During Growth
and Sporulation in Streptomyces coelicolor".
8/90-7/93: Cancer
Research Campaign, Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Department
of Anatomy & Physiology, University
of Dundee, Dundee.
Medical Research Council Training Fellowship in the laboratory
of Professor David Glover.
Research Project: "Monopolar Spindles and Metaphase Arrest".
9/86-7/90: European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg.
EMBL Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the laboratory of Dr
Iain Mattaj.
Research Project: "The transcription of Xenopus U snRNA
genes".
PhD awarded in November 1990 by the University
of London.
Interests and Activities
• Member of: Institute
of Physics, Institute
of Biology, and the Association
for Science Education.
• Qualified Association
Football Referee.
• Play squash and badminton regularly.
• Other interests include hill walking, skiing, digital
photography and travel (mainly ecotourism).
• www.drparry.co.uk
Scientific
Publications
G. Tebb, M. Kazmaier,
H. Parry, N.Dathan and Iain W. Mattaj (1987).
Transcription of Xenopus U snRNA genes.
Mol.
Biol. Reports 12, 14-19.
I.W. Mattaj, N.A.
Dathan, H.D. Parry, P. Carbon and A. Krol (1988)
Changing the RNA polymerase specificity of U snRNA gene promoters.
Cell
55, 435-442.
H.D. Parry, D. Scherly
and I.W. Mattaj (1989).
"Snurpogenesis": The transcription and assembly of
U snRNP components.
Trends
Biochem.Sci.14, 15-19.
H.D. Parry, G. Tebb
and I.W. Mattaj (1989).
The Xenopus U2 gene PSE is a single, compact element required
for transcription initiation and 3'end formation.
Nucl.
Acids Res. 17, 3633-3644.
H.D. Parry and I.W. Mattaj (1990).
Positive and negative functional interactions between promoter
elements from different classes of RNA polymerase III-transcribed
genes. EMBO
J. 9, 1097-1104.
K.A. Simmen, J.Bernués,
H.D. Parry, H.G. Stunnenberg, A. Berkenstam, B. Cavallini, J.-M.
Egly and I.W. Mattaj (1991).
TFIID is required for in vitro transcription of the human U6
gene by RNA polymerase III.
EMBO
J. 10, 1853-1862.
K.A. Simmen, R.
Waldschmidt, J.Bernués, H.D. Parry, K.H. Seifart and
I.W. Mattaj (1992).
Proximal Sequence Element factor binding and species specificity
in vertebrate U6 snRNA promoters.
J.
Mol. Biol. 223, 873-884.
Alphey, L. and Parry,
H.D. (1995).
Making nucleic acid probes.
Chapter
4 in DNA cloning 1 - a practical approach. (Core techniques,
2nd edition) Ed. D.M. Glover. IRL Press at Oxford University
Press. p121 - 141.
Parry, H.D. and
Alphey, L. (1995).
The
utilisation of cloned DNAs to study gene organisation and expression.
Chapter 5 in DNA cloning 1 - a practical approach. (Core techniques,
2nd edition) Ed. D.M. Glover. IRL Press at Oxford University
Press. p143 - 191.
Glover, D.M., Leibowitz,
M.H., McLean, D.A. and Parry, H. (1995). Mutations in aurora
prevent centrosome separation leading to the formation of monopolar
spindles.
Cell
81, 95-105.
Whitfield, W.G.F.,
Chaplin, M.A., Oegema, K., Parry, H. and Glover D.M. (1995).
The 190 kDa centrosome-associated protein of Drosophila melanogaster
contains three zinc finger motifs and binds to specific sites
on polytene chromosomes.
J.
Cell Sci. 108, 3377-3387.
Ainsa, J., Parry
HD and Chater, K.F. (1999)
A response regulator-like protein that functions at an intermediate
stage of sporulation in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).
Mol.
Microbiol. 34, 607-619
Parry, H.D., McDougall,
A.D. and Whitaker, M. (2005)
Microdomains bounded by endoplasmic reticulum segregate cell
cycle calcium transients in syncytial Drosophila embryos
J
Cell Biol. 2005 171, 47-59.
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