Precision Biosciences Innovation Hub

Our people

Meet the experts working in our interdisciplinary team.

Dr Joern Werner

Reader in Structural Biology
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Dr Kif Liakath-Ali MSc, MPhil, PhD.

Lecturer in Advanced Cell Biology

Research interests

  • Regulation of RNA splicing
  • RNA Splicing Misregulation in Neurodegeneration
  • Ribosomes and Alternative Splicing

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Lindy Holden-Dye BSc, MSc, PhD, FRSB, FBPhS

PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCES

Research interests

  • Neuropharmacology
  • Invertebrate neuroscience
  • Nematode neurobiology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Mahesan Niranjan

ISIS Chair
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Dr Marc Dumont

Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology

Research interests

  • Methanotrophs and methane cycling
  • Microbial communities in soils, sediments, and aquatic systems
  • Biogeochemical cycles

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Mariana Vargas-Caballero

Associate Professor

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Professor Mark Chapman

Professor

Research interests

  • Novel and Underutilised Crops (NUCs) for climate change resilience and food security
  • The genomic bases of speciation and hybridisation
  • Domestication genomics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Matthew Terry

Professor of Molecular Plant Biology

Research interests

  • Chloroplast development and retrograde signalling to the nucleus
  • Light regulation of wheat growth and development
  • Improving algal photosynthesis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Max Crispin DPhil, FRSB, FRSC, FHEA

Director of Inst for Life Sciences

Research interests

  • Viral Glycobiology
  • Therapeutic Antibodies

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Dr Nela Nikolic

Lecturer in Microbiology

Research interests

  • Roles of accessory genetic elements in bacterial resilience
  • Phenotypic heterogeneity and individual behaviors underlying stress adaptation in bacterial populations
  • Dynamic interactions between bacterial viruses (phages) and bacterial populations

Accepting applications from PhD students

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