Senior Research Fellows in Basic Biomedical Science
Senior Fellowships are tenable for up to five years and are renewable. Fellows normally have between five and ten years' research experience from the date of their doctoral degree.
Fellows are grouped alphabetically by surname.
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Dr Julie Ahringer
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Regulation and transduction of cell polarity
Dr Fred Antson
Department of Chemistry, University of York
Structure and mechanism of multicomponent protein-nucleic acid assemblies
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Professor Stuart Baker
Movement Laboratory, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
Neural circuits for oscilliary sensorimotor processing
Dr David Bannerman
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Genetic dissections of hippocampal function
Dr Mike Briggs
Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University
Defining disease mechanisms in mouse models of chondrodysplasia
Dr Simon Brooker
Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Measuring the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases in Africa
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Professor Jane Clarke
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Multidisciplinary studies of protein folding, misfolding and assembly
Dr Jonathan Chubb
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London
Control of noise in gene expression
Dr Philip Cooper
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
The impact of early infectious and microbial exposures on the development of immunity and allergic inflammatory disease in children living in a tropical region of Ecuador
Professor Heather Cordell
Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University
Development of statistical methodology for detection and characterisation of genetic factors in complex disease
Professor Juan P Couso
Developmental Genetics Group, Biology and Environmental Biology, University of Sussex
A new class of genes containing small Open Reading Frames: cellular and molecular function of the encoded peptides
Professor Paul Crocker
Cell Biology and Immunology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Role of siglecs in disease
Dr Colm Cunningham
Biochemistry and Immunology, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin
Reconciling cholinergic and inflammatory hypotheses of delirium: acute and lasting effects of systematic inflammation of chronic neurodegeneration
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Professor Ilan Davis
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of intracellular mRNA transport and anchoring
Professor Simon Davis
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
Principles of early T-cell activation
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Dr Anton Gartner
The Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Combined genetic and biochemical approaches to uncover and characterize redundant factors involved in late stages of recombinational repair
Dr Derek Gilroy
Department of Medicine, University College London
Novel resolution-phase macrophages restore post-inflammation tissue homeostatis
Dr Anna Gloyn
The Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford
Bridging the gap from type 2 diabetes genetics to functional mechanisms of disease
Dr Alexander Gourine
Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
Astroglial control of vital neural networks
Dr Kay Grünewald
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford
Membrane remodelling by viral and cellular proteins: Elucidating structure and dynamics of protein complexes in their native environment by cryo electron tomography and complementary approaches
Dr Ian Goodfellow
Department of Medicine, Imperial College London
Unravelling the networks that determine and control norovirus infection and pathogenesis
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Dr Simon Hay
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Defining the population at risk and burden of disease of Plasmodium vivax malaria
Dr Brian Hendrich
WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge
Transcriptional control of stem cell fate
Dr Lora Heisler
Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
Metabolic consequence of in vivo modulation of discrete seotonergic pathways
Dr Ewald Hettema
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield
Characterisation of the contribution of the endoplasmic reticulum in peroxisome multiplication
Professor Erhard Hohenester
Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
Structural studies of cell-matrix interactions
Dr Ian Humphreys
School of Medicine, Cardiff University
Modulating cytokine expression by T cells to protect the mucosa from chronic viral infections
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Professor Mark Jobling
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester
Sex, genomes, history: molecular, evolutionary and cultural effects of human genetic diversity
Dr Heidi Johansen-Berg
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Structural brain changes with learning and recovery from stroke
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Dr Rowland Kao
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow
An integrated approach to modelling the persistence, spread and control of livestock diseases in the UK
Professor Robert Klose
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
Understanding the role of CpG islands in gene regulatory element function and transcription
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Dr Tom Little
Institute for Evolutionary Biology, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh
Co-evolution and the genetic basis of infectious disease in a natural host-pathogen system
Professor Clare Lloyd
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, London
Epithelial/immune interactions underlying development and resolution of allergicairway inflammation and remodelling influence of genes and environment
Dr Sarah Lummis
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Cys-loop receptors: relating structure to function
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Dr Annette MacLeod
Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow
Genetic determinants of host/parasite interactions in African trypanosomiasis
Professor Eleanor Maguire
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London
The neural bases of spatial cognition and memory through the life span in health and disease
Professor Martin Maiden
The Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Population genomics of the Neisseria: evolution and commensalism and virulence
Dr Adele Marston
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
The role of the pericentromere in mitosis and meiosis
Dr Markus Meissner
Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow
Systematic analysis of essential parasite genes linked to invasion of the host cell in Toxoplasma gondii
Dr Andrew Morris
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Statistical methods for the analysis of genome-wide association and re-sequencing studies
Dr Thomas Mrsic-Flogel
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
The functional organisation of synaptic connectivity in visual cortex
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Dr Stuart Neil
Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London
The molecular and cellular basis for the function of the HIV-1 Vpu protein in the targeting of host antiviral and immune-modulatory factors
Dr Sergey Nejentsev
Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Genetic and functional mechanisms of susceptibility to mycobacterial infection
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Dr Andrew Oates
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London
Patterning embryos with genetic oscillations
Dr Hiro Ohkura
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
The specialised apparatus for meiotic chromosome segregation in oocytes
Professor Tom Owen-Hughes
The Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Mechanisms for remodelling chromatin
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Professor Nancy Papalopulu
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
Studying neurogenesis through developmental time
Dr Luca Pellegrini
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Macromolecular assemblies and mechanisms of DNA replication and repair
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Professor Juri Rappsilber
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Manchester
Three-dimensional proteomics: mapping the geometry of large protein assemblies using cross-linking, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics
Dr Frank Reimann
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
Mechanisms underlying Glucose-dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide (GIP) secretion and function
Professor Alex Rowe
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh
Investigation into Plasmodium falciparum rosetting mechanisms and development of rosette-disrupting interventions to treat or prevent severe malaria
Professor Gloria Rudenko
Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Imperial College London
Molecular mechanisms mediating immune evasion in African trypanosomes
Professor Dmitri Rusakov
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London
Principal of neurotransmitter signal formation in the brain
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Dr Eric Schirmer
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
Nuclear envelope transmembrane protein regulation of tissue-specific genome organisation and cell cycle regulation
Professor Sophie Scott
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
Neurobiology of speech communication: cognition, plasticity and social interactions
Dr Steven Sinkins
Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
Wolbachia as a tool for the control of mosquito-borne disease
Professor David Strutt
Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield
Dissection of Frizzled function in cell polarity establishment in Drosophila
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Dr Sandra Telfer
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Disease risk in Madagascar
Professor Greg Towers
Wohl Virion Centre, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London
Characterisation of host virus infections
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Dr Britta Urban
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme
Cellular immune responses in children with Plasmodium falciparum infection
Dr James Usherwood
Structure and Motion lab, Royal Veterinary College
Fundamental limits on muscle-actuated locomotor tasks
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Professor Daan van Aalten
Molecular Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Molecular mechanisms of O-GlcNAc signalling
Dr Seralynne Vann
School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Importance of mammillary body connections for memory
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Dr Scott Waddell
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Pursuing a multi-level understanding of memory and motivation
Dr Andrew Welchman
Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham
Decoding dorsal depth processing in the human brain
Professor Will Wood
Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath
Drosophila embryonic macrophages as a model system for studying migration and bacterial infection in real time
Dr Anton Wutz
WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge
Investigation of mechanisms for establishing epigenetic patterns for stable cell identity in mammalian stem cell systems
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Professor Magdelena Zernicka-Goetz
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Early cell fate decisions and cell positioning in the mouse embryo