About Me

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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