Peter Roach was an undergraduate at Bristol University and graduated with an honours degree in Biochemistry in 1986. After a year working at Hammersmith Hospital, he studied for a PhD in peptide chemistry at Edinburgh University, under the supervision of Professor Bob Ramage. In 1990 he began postdoctoral research with Professor Sir Jack Baldwin FRS. He was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1997 and made a tutorial fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. In 1999, he was appointed to a lectureship at Southampton University and was made Senior Lecturer in 2008. Peter is a member of the Biochemical Society

Biosynthesis, enzyme mechanisms, radicals, structural studies, iron sulphur clusters, DNA methyltransferase, DNA repair, epigenetics, suspension arrays, encoding.

Thin film polycrystalline silicon nanowire biosensors - Al Hakim, Mohammad M., Lombardini, Marta, Sun, Kai, Giustiniano, Francesco, Roach, Peter L., Davies, Donna E., Howarth, Peter H., de Planque, Maurits R.R., Morgan, Hywel and Ashburn, Peter Published:2012Publication:Nano LettersVolume:12, (4)Page Range:1868-1872doi:10.1021/nl2042276PMID:22432636 [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation: HydG-catalyzed synthesis of carbon monoxide - Shepard, Eric M., Duffus, Benjamin R., George, Simon J., McGlynn, Shawn E., Challand, Martin R., Swanson, Kevin D., Roach, Peter L., Cramer, Stephen P., Peters, John W. and Broderick, Joan B. Published:2010Publication:Journal of the American Chemical SocietyVolume:132, (27)Page Range:9247-9249doi:10.1021/ja1012273PMID:20565074 [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Cyanide Ligands derived from S-Adenosylmethionine-dependent cleavage of Tyrosine - Driesener, Rebecca C., Challand, Martin R., McGlynn, Shawn E., Shepard, Eric M., Boyd, Eric S., Broderick, Joan B., Peters, John W. and Roach, Peter L. Published:2010Publication:Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume:49, (9)Page Range:1687-1690doi:10.1002/anie.200907047PMID:20108298 Catalytic activity of the anaerobic tyrosine lyase required for thiamine biosynthesis in Escherichia coli - Challand, M.R, Martins, F.T. and Roach, P.L. Published:2010Publication:Journal of Biological ChemistryVolume:285, (8)Page Range:5240-5248doi:10.1074/jbc.M109.056606PMID:19923213