Undergraduate Teaching
Dr Saunders is responsible for teaching the bacteriology component of the preclinical pathology course. This includes the lectures during the first three weeks of the academic year, as well as directing and overseeing the practical classes. This is a short course, focussed upon using a limited number of bacterial examples to illustrate the major themes of bacterial biology, and how the behaviour, physiology, and genetics of bacteria contribute to their ability to cause disease, as well as the principles of antimicrobial chemotherapy and resistance. Students with questions related to these lectures or practical classes, are encouraged to approach the practical class demonstrators or Dr Saunders at any time during this section of the course, and should contact him directly if they have problems that they, or their pathology tutors, cannot address in this area of the course.
In addition, Dr Saunders is a Lecturer in Pathology at Somerville College, and a Fellow in Pathology and Immunology at University College, Oxford. His teaching is primarily directed towards the Pathology Course generally, and to the Immunology components of the Biochemistry Course, although he also frequently covers additional course components, supervises FHS project students for the medical and physiology courses, and sometimes also for students studying Biochemistry, and Biological Sciences.
Dr Saunders has also previously been an examiner of the BM pathology course, and is currently an examiner for the Infection and Immunity option of the Final Honours School course.
Information and Materials for Tutorials.
Tutorial approach. What do I expect?
Tutorial Teaching Materials:
Pathology Michaelmas Term - essays;
Pathology Hilary Term - essays;
Biochemistry Hilary Term - Immunology essays;
Infection and Immunity FHS questions.
Short notes style revision / study questions in Pathology.
Additional essay study titles from former tutorials and Collections in Pathology.