Our researchers

Cinzia Allegrucci

• Defeating Cancer
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Cancer
• Stem cells
• Epigenetics
• Disease modelling
• Genetics

• iPSC technology
• 3D cell culture model
• In Vitro assays
• Epigenetic analyses

Kenton Arkill

• Defeating cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular complexity
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues

• Vascular permeability
• Endothelial glycocalyx
• Electron
• Microscopy
• Correlative microscopy techniques

• Functional permeability assays
• 3D TEM
• Correlative microscopy techniques

Jennifer Ashworth

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Biomaterials
• Fibrosis
• Cancer research
• 3D in vitro models
• Imaging tissue

• 3D cell culture
• Biomaterials design & fabrication
• Primary cell/organoid culture
• Confocal imaging
• Micro-CT analysis

Steve Atkinson

• Taming Microbes
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering therapeutics

• Yersinia pestis
• Plague
• Black death
• Molecular genetic pathways
• Antibiotic resistance

• Plague insect infection
• Soil infection
• Molecular genetics of plague

Dave Bates

• Defeating Cancer
• Regenerating and Modelling tissues
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Angiogenesis
• Vascular remodelling
• Cholangiocarcinoma
• Renal glomerular physiology
• Diabetes

• In vivo imaging
• RNA splicing
• Molecular and cellular biology
• Drug discovery

Andrew Benest

• Defeating cancer
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Endothelial cells
• Lymphatics
• Angiogenesis
• Vasculature
• Transcription factors

• Transcriptomics
• In Vivo modelling
• Confocal microscopy

Ben Blount

• Engineering Biology

• Synthetic genomics
• Synthetic biology
• Microbial strain engineering
• Genome engineering
• Yeast genetics

• DNA assembly
• CRISPR
• Chromosome design
• SCRaMbLE

Daniel Booth

• Defeating Cancer
• Engineering Biology

• Chromosomes
• Mitosis
• Advanced-imaging
• Cancer
• Cell-division

• CLEM
• Electron microscopy
• Advanced proteomics
• Advanced imaging
• Light-microscopy
• Volume microscopy

Tracey D Bradshaw

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Cancer
• Pharmacology
• Drug-discovery
• Apoferritin
• Molecular mechanisms

• Tissue culture
• Cell biology
• MTT
• Western blot
• Flow cytometry

Jack Bryant

• Taming microbes
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Genetics
• Biochemistry
• Structural biology
• Gram-negative bacterial outer membrane biogenesis
• Fundamental biology

• Transposon Directed Insertion-site Sequencing (TraDIS)

• TraDIS-Xpress

• Dual Barcoded Shotgun Expression Library Sequencing (Dubseq)

• CRISPRi

• Bacterial chromosome engineering

• Protein purification and biochemistryMicroscopy

Lee Buttery

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Engineering Biology
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• 3D cell models
• Stem cells
• Osteoblasts
• Cell-materials interactions
• Tissue engineering

• 3D and ES cell culture
• Osteoblast culture
• Immunocytochemistry
• Optical tweezers for cell biology

Miguel Camara

• Taming microbes
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Biofilms
• Quorum sensing
• Antimicrobials
• Microbial gene regulation
• Antimicrobial target discovery

• Biofilm model design
• Biofilm imaging
• Bacterial transcriptomics
• Bioreporter design,
• HTP antimicrobial testing

Weng Chan

• Pioneering Therapuetics
• Taming Microbes
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Antibiotic discovery
• Medicinal chemistry
• Chemical biology
• Antivirulence
• Peptide chemistry

• Solid-phase peptide synthesis
• Organic synthesis
• In vitro antimicrobial assay
• Drug design

Yan Chen

• Defeating Cancer

• Artificial Intelligence
• Quality assurance
• Digital screening
• Medical imaging

• Programming
• Algorithms
• Artificial intelligence
• DICOM images processing

Rachel Clifford

• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Respiratory
• Epigenetics
• Transcriptional regulation
• DNA methylation
• Inhaled exposures

• Primary cell culture
• Methylomics
• Histone modification analysis
• Transcriptomics
• Molecular biology

Beth Coyle

• Defeating Cancer
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Paediatric brain tumours
• Resistance
• Metastasis
• Tumour microenvironment

• 3D cell cuture
• Apoptosis
• Cytotoxicity
• Migration assays

Madhumita Dandapani

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Childhood cancer
• Brain tumours
• Cancer metabolism
• Clinical trials
• Global health

• Immunohistochemistry
• Western blotting
• Cell culture
• Multi-omics
• Systematic reviews

Lodewijk V. Dekker

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Drug discovery
• Cancer
• Thrombosis
• Protein kinase
• Protein interactions

• Biochemical assays
• Cellular assays
• Enzyme assays
• Assay development
• High throughput screening

Chris Denning

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)
• Heart/cardiovascular disease
• Drug discovery and evaluation
• Regenerative medicine

• Cardiovascular lineage differentiation
• CRISPR engineering
• Phenotype-genotype correlations
• Automation

James Dixon

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Defeating Cancer

• Gene therapy
• Gene editing 
• Vaccines
• Nucleic acid delivery
• Regenerative medicine

• Genetic engineering/editing
• Nanoformulation
• Reporter assays
• Particle characterisation
• Biomaterials

• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Defeating Cancer
• Engineering Biology

• Proteases in the ubiquitin system
• Protein structure
• Structure-aided drug design
• Enzyme specificity
• Proteins in biotechnology

• Macromolecular X-ray crystallography
• Isothermal titration calorimetry
• Biochemistry
• Protein engineering

Lindy Durrant

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Cancer immunotherapy
• Vaccines
• Monoclonal antibodies
• T cells,
• Post translational modifications

• Production of antibodies
• Vaccine design
• Cancer animal models
• T cell assays
• ELISAs

Isioma Egbuniwe

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Molecuar Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Bile duct cancer
• Tumour microenvironment
• T and B cells
• Lymphatics
• Digital pathology

• Primary cell isolation and culture
• Multi-parameter flow cytometry
• 3D tumour-immune cell co-culture systems
• Histopathology
• Image analysis

Libby Ellis

• Defeating Cancer

• Cancer epidemiology
• Population health
• Inequalities
• Cancer outcomes
• Health policy

• Epidemiological and statistical methodolog
• Electronic health data analysis

Jonas Emsley

• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Taming Microbes
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Structural biology
• Protein crystallography
• Protease structure
• Receptor structure
• Drug development

• Protein crystallography
• Isothermal titration calorimetry
• Surface plasmon resonance
• Molecular docking

• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Redox mechanisms
• Oxidative and nitrosative stresses
• Proteomics
• Post-translational modifications of proteins

• Quantitative/redox/PTMs proteomics
• Cell- and recombinant protein-based assays
• Stem cell derived disease models
• Various cell cultures (cortical, cerebellar, hippocampal, DRG, motor neurons)

Hester Franks

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Cancer
• Immunotherapy
• Macrophages
• Tumour microenvironment
• Melanoma

• Primary immune cell isolation and culture
• Flow cytometry
• RNAScope

Kevin Gaston

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Cancer
• Gene regulation
• Transcription
• Cell biology
• Protein-DNA interactions

• RNA sequencing
• ChIP sequencing
• Cell migration assays
• Cell viability assays
• EMSA

Pavel Gershkovich

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Defeating Cancer

• Biopharmaceutics
• Pharmacokinetics
• Drug delivery
• Intestinal lymphatic transport
• Targeted biodistribution

• Bioanalysis
• HPLC
• In Vivo pharmacokinetics
• In vivo biodistribution
• Pharmacokinetic modelling and simulation

Amanda Goodwin

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Fibrosis
• Development
• Lung repair

• In vitro cell stretch (Flexcell)
• G protein knockdown studies
• TMLC assays (TGFbeta signalling assay)
• ECM crossover studies

Anna Grabowska

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering therapeutics

• Cancer models
• Tumour microenvironment
• Target validation
• Drug screening
• Drug delivery

• Cancer modelling
• 3D tissue culture
• Quantitative PCR
• Immunohistochemistry

Andrew Green

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Breast cancer
• Molecular pathology
• Glutamine metabolism
• Genotype
• Phenotype

• Immunohistochemistry
• Tissue microarrays (TMAs)
• Laser microdissection
• Gene expression profiling
• In situ hybridisation

Ruth Griffin

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Taming Microbes
• Engineering Biology

• Oral vaccine delivery systems
• Infectious diseases

• Gene cloning and protein purification
• Formulation
• In vivo immunogenicity and challenge studies
• Antibody assays

Richard Grundy

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Childhood Brain Tumours
• Ependymoma
• Biomarkers
• Immunobiology
• Methylation profiling
• Molecular stratification

Nicholas Hannan

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Stem cells
• Disease modelling
• Respiratory disease
• Liver disease
• Inflammatory bowel disease

• Stem cell differentiation
• Cell phenotyping
• Gene editing and CRISPR base editing
• Organoids

Kim Hardie

• Taming Microbes

• Biofilms
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Bacteria
• Pathogenicity
• Protein secretion

• Fluorescent microscopy
• Infection models
• Microbiology
• Protein biochemistry
• Metabolite detection

• Engineering Biology
• Taming Microbes
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Engineering biology/Synthetic biology
• Metabolic engineering
• Biotechnology
• Biocatalysis
• Enzyme evolution

• Engineering biology/Synthetic biology
• Metabolic engineering
• Biotechnology
• Biocatalysis
• Enzyme evolution

• Taming Microbes
• Engineering Biology
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Bacterial infections
• Virulence
• Quorum sensing
• Gene expression
• Antimicrobial strategies

• Bacterial genomics
• RNA-Seq
• RNA protein interactions
• Construction of bacterial vectors

Mohammad Ilyas

• Defeating Cancer
• Regenerating
• Modelling Tissues
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues

• Colorectal cancer
• Mutation analysis
• Liquid biopsy
• Cancer biomarkers
• Tissue modelling

• Histopathology
• PCR
• Co-culture models
• Gene cloning

Andrew Jackson

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Cancer
• Immunotherapy
• Dendritic Cells (DC)
• T-cells
• Signalling

• Isolation of rare primary leukocyte subsets
• Flow cytometry
• Small molecule kinase inhibitors
• Multi-cellular immune culture systems

Victoria James

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues

• Extracellular vesicles
• RNA biology
• Cancer metastasis
• Epigenetics
• Inter-cellular communication

• Nanoparticle molecular biology
• RNA biology
• Cell biology
• Epigenetics

Sheela Jayaraman

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Gene expression
• Chromatin
• PRH/HHEX
• Cell signalling
• Transcriptomics

• RNAseq
• Western blotting
• Subcloning
• Chromatin immunoprecipitation

Jennie Jeyapalan

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Epigenomics
• Prostate cancer
• Transcriptional regulation
• Splicing

• Genomics
• RNA seq analysis
• Molecular biology
• Cell culture

Simon Johnson

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues

• Tissue remodelling
• Proteases Extracellular matrix
• Rare lung disease
• Drug repurposing

• Protease assays
• Complex cell culture
• Molecular pathology

Anna Malecka

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Cancer
• Immunology
• Macrophages
• Comparative oncology
• Immune-stromal interactions

• Flow cytometry
• Stroma-Immune co-culture system
• Cell culture

Barrie Kellam

• Pioneering Theraputics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Therapeutics
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues

• Medicinal chemistry
• Fluorescent ligands
• G protein-coupled receptors
• Drug discovery

• Medicinal chemistry
• Molecular modelling
• Biospectroscopy
• HPLC
• Fluorescence Imaging

Laura Kilpatrick

• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Defeating Cancer

• Molecular pharmacology
• G protein coupled receptors
• Receptor tyrosine kinases
• Signalling complexes
• Protein-protein interactions

• Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET)
• Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
• Fluorescence imaging
• Pharmacological assays

• Engineering Biology
• Taming Microbes

• Engineering biology
• Metabolic engineering
• Autotrophic microorganisms
• Bioelectochemical synthesis
• Circular economy

• Molecular biology
• Microscopy
• Microbial cultivation
• Electrofermentation
• Plastid engineering

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Biomolecular structure
• Molecular recognition
• Drug design
• Formulation design
• Molecular dynamics

• Molecular dynamics simulations
• Protein structure prediction
• Virtual screening
• Machine learning
• Software development

Anbarasu Lourdusamy

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Brain cancer
• Childhood cancer
• Systems biology
• Artificial intelligence
• Big data

• Bioinformatics
• NGS (RNAseq, ChIPseq, scRNAseq and ATAC-seq) data analysis
• Machine learning
• Statistics
• High-performance computing

Srinvasan Madhusudan

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Medical oncology
• Clinical trials
• Breast cancer
• DNA repair therapeutics
• Drug discovery

• DNA repair assays
• Immunohistochemical techniques
• Clinical trial methodologies

Stewart Martin

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Breast, brain and ovarian cancer
• Radiotherapy
• Metastasis
• Novel drugs
• Redox homeostasis
• Calpain proteases

• Radiation biology
• Immunohistochemistry
• Cell and molecular Biology

Alvaro Mata

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Engineering Biology
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Biomaterials
• Tissue engineering
• Regenerative materials
• In vitro models
• Biomineralization

• Self-assembly
• Bioprinting
• Electron microscopy

Alan McIntyre

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Cancer
• Hypoxia (low oxygen)
• Acidosis
• Transcription
• Epigenetics
• Angiogenesis

• CRISPR CAS9
• RNA-SEQ
• ChIP
• Tumour cell phenotype assays
• Hypoxia and acidosis investigations

Cathy Merry

• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Defeating Cancer

• Matrix biology
• Cancer research
• Disease modelling
• Glycobiology

• Glycobiology
• Hydrogel development
• Stem cell culture and differentiation
• Matrix biology
• In vitro disease models

Nigel Minton

• Engineering Biology
• Taming Microbes
• Defeating Cancer

• Exploiting autotrophy
• Reducing carbon emissions
• Industrial biotechnology
• Microbial pathogenesis
• Anaerobes

• Synthetic biology
• Metabolic engineering
• Gas fermentation
• Genome editing
• Therapeutic delivery systems

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Defeating Cancer

• Drug discovery
• Chemical biology
• Medicinal chemistry
• G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)
• Allosteric modulators

• Medicinal chemistry
• Compound purification
• Spectroscopic analysis
• Ligand/structure-based drug discovery

Nigel Mongan

• Defeating Cancer

• Bioinformatics
• Precision medicine
• Prostate cancer
• Breast cancer

• Bioinformatics
• Epitranscriptomics

Abhik Mukarjee

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues

• Digital/molecular pathology
• Gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary cancers
• Translational therapeutics
• Inflammatory bowel disease

• Histopathology and immunohistochemistry
• Digital pathology and image analyses
• Molecular pathology
• Functional biology

Paloma Ordóñez Morán

• Defeating Cancer
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Engineering Biology

• Stem cells
• Inflammation
• Differentiation
• Cancer
• Tumour heterogeneity

• 3D organoids
• Primary mouse and human cell culture
• Stem cell-based approaches
• In vivo assays
• Gene expression

Ellis O'Neil

• Taming Microbes
• Engineering Biology
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Natural products
• Algal biotechnology
• Biotransformation

• Analytical chemistry
• Mass spectrometry
• Protein expression and purification
• Genome mining

Poulam Patel

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Melanoma
• Renal cancer
• Cancer immunotherapy
• Clinical trials
• Translational medicine

• Clinical trials
• Immune assays

Ruman Rahman

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Brain cancer
• Cancer heterogeneity
• Cancer metabolism
• Biomaterial-based drug delivery
• Integrated genomics

• 3D primary tumour culture
• qRT-PCR
• Gene microarrays/knockdowns
• Western blotting

Emad Rakha

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Engineering Biology

• Breast cancer
• Pathology
• Classification
• Prognosis
• Digital pathology
• AI
• Predictive and prognostic markers

• Digital pathology
• Immunohistochemistry
• Image analysis

Judith Ramage

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Cancer
• Immunology
• T-lymphocytes
• Vaccines

• Multiplex fluorescence immunohistochemistry
• T-cell assays

Frankie Rawson

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Wireless bioelectronics
• Bioelectricity
• Electrochemistry
• Bionanotechnology
• Bioelectronic medicine

• SECM-AFM
• Voltammtery
• Amperomerty

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Childhood brain tumours
• Brain tumour immunity
• Childhood cancer
• Ependymoma
• Cancer recurrence

• RNA-sequencing
• Multiplex immunofluorescence
• Immunohistochemistry
• Clinical data analysis
• Childhood brain tumour clinical trials

• Taming Microbes
• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Helicobacter pylori
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Infection and immunity
• Gastric cancer
• Bacterial virulence

• Flow cytometry
• Real-time PCR
• Immunohistochemistry
• Antimicrobial sensitivity testing
• Immune cell purification and culture

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Taming Microbes

• Biointerfaces
• Biomaterials
• Peptide materials
• Hydrogels
• Computational material science

• Surface modification & analysis
• Polymerisation kinetics
• Light & enzyme responsive materials
• Material characterisation

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues

• Molecular
• Genetic and cellular mechanisms underlying asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Virus-host interactions
• Stratified medicine

• Gene discovery
• Primary airway cell and tissue models
• Functional genetics
• Transcriptomics
• Patient translational studies

Claire Seedhouse

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Therapeutics

• Blood cancers
• Drug resistance
• Stem cells
• Dormancy
• Mutations

• Quantitative PCR
• Flow cytometry
• Primary suspension cultures

Abdol Shams-Nateri

• Defeating Cancer
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Adult stem cells and cancer
• Precision oncology/personalized cancer treatments
• Intra-tumour heterogeneity
• Cell signalling and transcription
• Ubiquitin proteasome system and F-box proteins

• 3D Organoids and explants models
• Gene targeting & transgenics
• CRISPR-Cas gene editing systems
• Epithelial and hematopoietic stem cells assays

Stuart Smith

• Defeating Cancer
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• High grade glioma
• Low grade glioma
• Childhood brain tumours
• Drug delivery
• Tumour heterogeneity

• rtPCR
• RNA methylation
• IHC
• FACS

• Engineering Biology
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Metabolic engineering
• System biology
• Synthetic biology
• Microbial physiology - CO2 fixation

• Enzyme evolution
• Bacterial genome editing
• Fluxomics
• Proteomics
• Transcriptomics

• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Taming Microbes
• Defeating Cancer

• DNA replication
• DNA repair
• Replication-metabolism regulation
• Genome stability

• Protein expression
• Purification
• Polymerase and helicase assays
• Analytical ultracentrifugation
• SPR

Ian Spendlove

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity

• Controlling iTreg
• Engineering T cells
• Cloning TCRs from cancer patients
• Cancer survivors
• Anti cancer antibodies

• TCR cloning/transduction
• CRISPR-Cas9 of primary leukocytes
• Flow sorting rare T cells
• Differentiating iTreg
• Autophagosome purification

Michael Stocks

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Defeating Cancer

• Medicinal chemistry
• Drug discovery
• Cancer
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Prodrugs

• Synthesis
• Drug optimisation
• Drug delivery
• Medicinal chemistry

Sarah Storr

• Defeating Cancer
• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Cancer
• Breast cancer
• DARPP-32
• Calpain
• Cell signalling

• Cell culture
• Bioinformatics
• Immunohistochemistry
• Molecular biology
• Protein purification

Amanda Tatler

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues

• Respiratory disease
• Tissue remodelling
• Fibrosis
• Matrix
• 3D models

• Precision cut tissue slices
• In vivo respiratory models
• Molecular biology
• TGFb activation assays
• Immunohistochemistry/ immunofluorescence

Neil Thomas

• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Defeating Cancer
• Engineering Biology

• Enzyme mechanism
• Enzyme inhibitors
• Biopharmaceutics
• Silk and other protein-based biomaterials
• Nanobiotechnology

• Bioconjugation
• Chemiluminescence
• Un-natural amino acid mutagenesis
• Enzyme activity assays
• Enzyme inhibitor design

Alex Thompson

• Defeating Cancer
• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Blood cancer
• Stem cell technologies
• Pre-clinical evaluation
• Next-generation models
• Drug discovery

• In vivo modelling
• iPSC maintenance and differentiation
• Haematopoiesis
• Colony-forming assays
• Gene expression profiling

Lisa White

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Pioneering Therapeutics

• Regenerative medicine
• Biomaterials
• Extracellular matrix
• Hydrogels
• Microparticles

• Decellularization
• Micro x-ray computed tomography
• Mammalian cell culture
• Biomaterials characterisation
• Supercritical CO2

Huw Williams

• Demystifying Biomolecular Complexity
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Engineering Biology

• NMR
• Molecular interactions
• Molecular structure
• Analytical
• Kinetics

• NMR
• Molecular interactions
• Solid state NMR
• Molecular dynamics
• Molecular structure

• Taming Microbes
• Pioneering Therapeutics
• Demystifying Molecuar Complexity

• Quorum sensing
• Biofilms
• Bacteria
• Biomaterials
• Antimicrobial agents

• Bacterial genetics
• Bacterial culture
• Antimicrobial assays
• Quorum sensing assays
• Microscopy/imaging

• Engineering Biology
• Taming Microbes

• Microbial metabolism
• Biological engineering
• Synthetic biology
• Bacterial carbon capture
• Quorum sensing

• Anaerobic microbiology
• Gas fermentation
• Genetic modification of bacteria
• Adaptive laboratory evolution

Jing Yang

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Defeating Cancer
• Engineering Biology

• Biomaterials
• 3D Bioprinting
• Tissue engineering
• Regenerative medicine
• Immunomodulatory materials

• 3D printing
• Biomaterial preparation
• Chemical characterisation
• Mechanical testing
• Cell culture

• Regenerating and Modelling Tissues
• Demystifying Molecuar Complexity
• Engineering Biology

• Biointerfaces
• Biomaterials
• Peptide materials
• Hydrogels
• Computational material science

• Surface modification and analysis
• Polymerisation kinetics light and enzyme responsive materials
• Material characterisation

• Engineering biology
• Taming microbes

• Industrial biotechnology
• Biological engineering
• Single-carbon utilising bacteria for carbon capture
• Sustainable bioproducts
• Biorecovery

• Synthetic biology
• Bacterial genome editing
• Metabolic engineering
• Protein engineering
• Strain improvement