Department of Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Dr John Heap is a Lecturer in Synthetic Biology in the Department of Life Sciences. His research...

Structural biology of extracellular matrix Extracellular matrix (ECM) is assembled from...

The objective of our research is to understand and engineer the metabolism of biotechnologically...

Control of Mammalian Cell Proliferation At its simplistic level, cancer can be thought of as...

Our research vision focuses on unravelling the structural mechanisms by which pathogenic species...

Photosystem II (PSII) is the membrane protein-pigment complex which uses visible light photons...

Research in our laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanism of pain pathways. We employ...

I am interested in network analysis from a bioinformatic perspective, including the...

Biopharmaceutical Processing Biopharmaceuticals, or protein therapeutics, are the fastest...

Some of the most widespread infectious diseases of man are caused by helminth parasites,...

Our research focuses on the physical principles underlying functional processes of...

I am interested in how neuronal properties are specified and maintained in the developing and...

Prediction of protein structure and function Prediction of macromolecular docking and...

My research work and that of my group, the Theoretical Systems Biology group, is centered around...

My research interest is in structure-function analysis of proteins, particularly of...

We work on the structural dynamics of light sensitive proteins, using primarily ultrafast...