Participating Departments:

Students in the programme may undertake research in the following departments and institutes at the University of Oxford:

Biochemistry

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics - Structural Biology

as well as individual research groups in other departments - see list below

Participating Faculty Members

Dr Radu Aricescu, Structural Biology
Molecular mechanisms responsible for learning and memory

Professor Judy Armitage, Department of Biochemistry
Flagellar roation and intracellular signalling pathways controlling bacterial chemotaxis

Professor Fran Ashcroft, FRS, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Ion channels, Molecular Physiology

Professor Hagan Bayley, FRS, Department of Chemistry
Chemical Biology, Membrane proteins

Dr Ben Berks, Department of Biochemistry
Bacterial protein transport and bacterial energy metabolism

Dr Philip Biggin, Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry
Computational studies of receptors, simulation approaches to receptor function

Professor Iain Campbell, Department of Biochemistry
Structure and function of proteins in cell adhesion and signalling

Professor Simon Davis, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, MRC Human Immunology Unit
T cell biology

Jonathan Diprose, Structural Biology
VIrus structure

Professor Raymond Dwek, Department of Biochemistry, Glycobiology
Glycobiology, proteomics, antivirals

Professor Stuart Ferguson, Department of Biochemstry
Chemical Biology

Professor Ervin Fodor, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Influenza virus replication at the molecular level

Dr Elspeth Garman, Department of Biochemistry
Radiation damage studies of cryo-cooled protein crystals and mutational investigation of neuraminidases

Dr Robert Gilbert, Structural Biology
Virus and the control of translation

Dr Jonathan Grimes, Structural Biology
Structural analysis of viruses

Dr Kay Grunewald, Structural Biology

Professor Penny Handford, Department of Biochemistry
Calcium-binding epidermal growth factor-like (cbEGF) domain containing proteins in health and disease

Dr Maria Harkiolaki, Structural Biology

Dr Matthew Higgins, Department of Biochemistry
Eukaryotic pathogens, Drug discovery and vaccinology

Dr Juha Huiskonen, Structural Biology

Professor Yvonne Jones, Structural Biology
Structural studies of cell surface receptors and their recognition complexes

Dr Achillefs Kapanidis, Department of Physics, Bionanotechnology
Single molecule biophysics

Dr Susan Lea, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Structural studies on host-pathogen interactions

Professor Louis Mahadevan, Department of Biochemistry
Signal transduction, gene expression

Dr Erika Mancini, Structural Biology
Structure of chromatin remodelling factors; X-ray crystallography, electon microscopy

Simon Newstead, Department of Biochemistry

Dr Chris O'Callaghan, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Innate immunity, immune recognition

Dr Ray Owens, Structural Biology

Dr James Parker, Department of Biochemistry
Structural and molecular biology of RNA silencing

Professor Chris Pugh, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Gene regulation by hyposia, Enzyme inhibitor discovery and use

Professor Peter Ratcliffe, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Gene regulation by hypoxia, Enzyme inhibitor discover and use

Dr Christina Redfield, Department of Biochemistry
NMR studies of protein structure, function and dynamics

Professor Mark Sansom, Department of Biochemistry
Computational studies of membrane proteins: Sequences, structures and simulations

Dr Jason Schnell, Department of Biochemistry
Structure and regulation of ion channels and membrane-bound receptors

Professor Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry
Chemical Biology

Professor David Sherratt, Department of Biochemistry
Recombination and chromosome segregation

Dr Christian Siebold, Structural Biology

Professor David Stuart, Structural Biology
X-ray crystallography of viruses, viral proteins and, in conjunction with the group of Yvonne Jones, cell adhesion proteins and cytokines

Professor Andrew Turberfield, Department of Physics
DNA nanotechnology

Dr John Vakonakis, Department of Biochemistry

Dr Catherine Vénien-Bryan, Department of Biochemistry
Electron microscopy of signalling proteins

Professor Anthony Watts, Department of Biochemistry
Resolving structural details of membrane peptides and proteins at high resolution

Dr Nicole Zitzmann, Department of Biochemistry
Hepatitis - development of antiviral strategies