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Establishing the Department

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The Sir William Dunn Institute

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Molecules in Medical Science

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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Third year

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Part II Biochemistry

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Fourth year

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  • Systems Biology

Part III Biochemistry

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Research

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Faculty

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  • Claudia Bonfio
  • Susanne Bornelöv
  • Bill Broadhurst
  • Marc de la Roche
  • Jenny Gallop
  • Nick Gay
  • Camilla Godlee
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  • Marko Hyvönen
  • Tony Jackson
  • Sarah Lummis
  • Laura Machesky
  • Eyal Maori
  • Juan Mata
  • Eric Miska
  • Daniel Nietlispach
  • Kiran Patil
  • Noam Prywes
  • Jeanne Salje
  • Ritwick Sawarkar
  • Dee Scadden
  • Chris Smith
  • Katherine Stott
  • Iva Tchasovnikarova
  • Alecia-Jane Twigger
  • Ross Waller
  • Martin Welch
  • Evgeny Zatulovskiy

Paul Dupree

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Dupree Group website

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Chris Howe

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Howe Group website

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About the Lab

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  • Biological Photovoltaics (BPV)

Members

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  • Paolo Bombelli (Postdoctoral Researcher)
  • Jack Hervey (Graduate Student)
  • Ellen Nisbet (Senior Research Associate)
  • Elfadil Osman (Graduate Student)
  • Stephen Rowden (Graduate Student)
  • Barnaby Slater (Graduate Student)
  • Laura Wey (Graduate Student)

Lab Publications

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Lab Adventures

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P2P

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BEST

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Commercial Partners

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  • Anaero Technology
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Device Electrical Output

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Kathryn Lilley

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Ben Luisi

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Luisi Group website

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Helen Mott

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Darerca Owen

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Mott and Owen Group website

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  • Publications
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Luca Pellegrini

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Pellegrini Group website

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  • List of publications
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Lab resources

  • Lab resources overview
  • MALS theory and practice
  • FRET theory and practice
  • CryoEM overview

Affiliated and Associate faculty

  • Affiliated and Associate faculty overview
  • John McCafferty
  • Andrew Grace
  • Steve Jackson

Facility Managers

  • Facility Managers overview
  • Dima Chirgadze
  • Mike Deery
  • Daniel Nietlispach
  • Katherine Stott

Emeritus faculty

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  • Tom Blundell
  • Kevin Brindle
  • Guy Brown
  • Mark Carrington
  • Gerard Evan
  • Richard Farndale
  • Robin Hesketh
  • Peter Leadlay
  • Jim Metcalfe
  • Steve Oliver
  • George Salmond
  • Jean Thomas

Ernest Laue

  • Ernest Laue overview

Laue Group website

  • Laue Group website overview
  • Using single cell Hi-C to study 3D genome organisation
  • Single-molecule imaging to study the function of the NuRD complex
  • Investigation of nucleosome remodelling by CHD4/NuRD

Former faculty

  • Former faculty overview
  • Brian Hendrich
  • Jussi Taipale
  • Philip Zegerman
  • Svetlana Khoronenkova
  • Alex Borodavka
  • Austin Smith
  • Trevor Littlewood
  • Richard Jackson
  • Ellen Nisbet
  • Shilo Titus
  • Jules Griffin
  • Simone Weyand
  • Stephanie Jung
  • Jasmin Fisher
  • Nancy Standart
  • Rick Livesey
  • Nick Robinson
  • Giorgio Favrin
  • Monique Gangloff
  • Hee-Jeon Hong
  • José Silva
  • Tom Monie
  • Karen Lipkow
  • Anton Wutz
  • Natasha Murzina

COVID-19 projects

  • COVID-19 projects overview
  • Modulation of host cell RNA-binding proteins through the infectious cycle of SARS-CoV-2
  • Analysing the human-coronavirus RNA interactome
  • COVID-19 diagnostics for Africa
  • Development of multiplex serological assays for evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 immunity
  • Targeting conserved RNA elements in SARS-CoV-2 for therapy
  • Affinity reagents for functional neutralisation of nCoV-19
  • Structural and computational biology of COVID-19

Facilities

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