Dr Steve Minchin graduated from Birmingham University in 1985 and completed a DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1988. He rejoined the School of Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham in 1988, working as a research fellow with Professor Steve Busby. He was appointed as a lecturer in 1991, becoming a Senior lecturer in 2001, was Director of Quality Assurance and Enhancement for the College of Life and Environmental Sciences from 2010 to 2012. He is currently the Academic Director of the Birmingham International Academy.

Minchin, S.D. and Busby, S.J.W. (2010) “Transcription Factors” in Brenner’s Online Encyclopedia of Genetics (2nd Edition) in press. Busby, S.J.W. and Minchin, S.D. (2010) “Genomic approaches to reconstructing transcriptional networks” in Bacterial Gene Regulation and Transcriptional Networks, Babu, M.M. eds. (Norfolk, UK: Caister Academic Press) in press. Minchin, S.D. and S.J.W. Busby (2009) Analysis of mechanisms of activation and repression at bacterial promoters. Methods 47: p. 6-12. George, S., Diab, A. M., Sabine, V., Chipman, J. K., Minchin, S. D. and Williams, T. D. (2006) A genomic analysis of pollutant response in liver of flounders from two highley polluted european estuaries. Marine Environmental Research. 62: p. S165. Williams, T.D., Diab, A.M., George, S.G., Godfrey, R.E., Sabine, V., Conesa, A., Minchin, S.D., Watts, P.C., Chipman, J.K. (2006). Development of the GENIPOL European flounder (Platichthys flesus) microarray and determination of temporal transcriptional responses to cadmium at low dose. Environ. Sci. Technol. 40: 6479-6488. Zheng,D., Constantinidou,C., Hobman,J.L., and Minchin,S.D. (2004). Identification of the CRP regulon using in vitro and in vivo transcriptional profiling. Nucleic Acids Res., 32, 5874-5893.