Academic and research staff

Andrew Almond

Biophysics, macromolecular dynamics and simulation, computational biology

Sophia Ananiadou

Biomedical text mining

Perdita Barran

Ion mobility mass spectrometry, instrument technique development, protein structure and dynamics, disease diagnosis

Chris Blanford

Enzyme-enhanced materials, bioelectrochemistry, surface engineering

Rainer Breitling

Metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, systems biology, modelling

Mike Buckley

Molecular ageing, skeletal biology, proteomics

Patrick Cai

Synthetic genomics, non-coding RNA engineering, yeast synthetic chromosomes

Robin Curtis

Biopharmaceuticals, biologicals, protein-protein interactions, protein self-assembly

Philip Day

Graphene-based wound dressings, quantitative and single-cell molecular biology, enzyme evaluation

Sam de Visser

Computational chemistry, inorganic reaction mechanisms, enzyme catalysis

Daniela Delneri

Yeast biotechnology and strain development, experimental evolution, biological systems, environmental genomics

Alan Dickson

Bioprocessing, biomanufacturing, cell and gene therapy

Neil Dixon

Biosensors and biocatalysts for the bioeconomy, host engineering for protein production, development of genetic regulation tools

Konstantina Drosou

Evolutionary biology, ancient DNA, bioinformatics

Rob Field - Director

Chemical biology, carbohydrates, infectious diseases

Sabine Flitsch

Chemical biology, biocatalysis, glycoscience

Stephen Fowler

Breath analysis, asthma, respiratory infection

John Gardiner

Synthetic carbohydrates, glycosaminoglycans, chemical biology, substrate synthesis

Peter Gardner

Vibrational spectroscopy, analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, microplastics

Alexander Golovanov

Protein structure, biopharmaceutical formulations, NMR spectroscopy, biological molecules

Sam Hay

computation and experimental biophysics, reaction mechanism, catalysis, dynamics, biochemical kinetics

Yi Jin

Chemical biology, X-ray crystallography, enzyme catalysis, glycoscience

David Leys

Enzymology studies, protein engineering, structural biology/X-ray crystallography, redox cofactors

Sarah Lovelock

Therapeutic oligonucleotides, directed evolution, biocatalysis

Clare Megarity

Electrochemistry, enzymology, enzyme engineering, bioelectrochemistry, cooperativity/allostery

Jason Micklefield

Biosynthesis, pathway engineering, antibiotics, enzyme discovery

Aline Miller

Self-assembling hydrogels, 3-D cell culture, 3-D bioprinting, drug discovery, drug delivery vehicles, therapeutics

Clare Mills

Allergies, disease severity, digestion, immune reaction to proteins, sustainable food proteins, climate change, nutrition

Andrew Munro

Protein design and engineering, structural biology, enzymology, cytochromes P450, redox reactions

Sophie Nixon

Microbial ecology, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, microbial carbon cycling, biogeochemistry

Jack Rowbotham

Biocatalysis, applied catalysis, metals and enzymes

Alberto Saiani

Hydrogel design and characterisation, biomolecular self-assembly, biomedical applications

Nigel Scrutton

Enzyme and photoreceptor biophysics, synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, energy, chemicals

Eriko Takano

Secondary metabolite biosynthesis pathway assembly, regulatory circuit engineering, bioinformatics

Drupad Trivedi

Metabolomics, chemometrics, precision medicine

Nicholas Turner

Biocatalysis, directed evolution of enzymes, asymmetric synthesis

Jonathan Waltho

Protein structure, dynamics, enzymes, bioanalytical techniques

Jim Warwicker

Predictive algorithms, mechanistic models, cell biology, pH-dependence in biology and biotechnology

Simon Webb

Supramolecular chemistry, biomaterials, liposomes

Lu Shin Wong

Biocatalysis, biomaterials, nanomaterials