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Chemical Structural and Synthetic Biology

Chemical, Structural and Synthetic Biology

Developing highly interdisciplinary molecular and analytical approaches for understanding and exploiting biological systems for drug discovery, diagnostics, food security, sustainable chemicals and industrial biotechnology

Dr Lona Alkhalaf

Lona Alkhalaf

The chemistry and biology of natural products e.g. antibiotics, siderophores, phytotoxins, autoinducers and other bioactive metabolites

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Prof Claudia Blindauer

Claudia Blindauer - Grouping Lead

Inorganic biochemistry, focusing on metal-binding proteins from a variety of organisms aiming to aid the understanding of zinc homeostasis.

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Prog Tim Bugg

Tim Bugg

Enzyme catalysis, conversion of lignin to renewable chemicals using enzymes and engineered microbes.

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Prof Greg Challis

Greg Challis

The chemistry and biology of natural products e.g. antibiotics, siderophores, phytotoxins, autoinducers and other bioactive metabolites

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Prof Christophe Corre

Christophe Corre

Bacterial Transcriptional Regulators; discovery of new bioactive natural products; Biocatalysts

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Dr Ann Dixon

Ann Dixon

Investigating the assembly, interactions and 3-D structures of membrane proteins, particularly those associated with cancers and immunity.

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Dr Matt Jenner

Matthew Jenner

Application of mass spectrometry to solve complex biological problems related to natural product biosynthesis.

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Prof Józef Lewandowski

Józef Lewandowski

Solution- and solid-state NMR led integrated structural biology. Protein dynamics. Natural products biosynthesis.

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Dr Andrew Marsh

Andrew Marsh

Supramolecular chemistry: synthesis and actions of functional molecules. Chemical virology.

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Dr Alex Mullins

Alex Mullins

Evolution-inspired engineering of non-ribosomal peptide synthetase assembly lines to create novel bioactive scaffolds.

Prof Peter Sadler

Peter Sadler

Chemistry of metals in medicine (bioinorganic chemistry, inorganic chemical biology and medicine).

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Dr Manuela Tosin

Manuela Tosin

Development of chemical probes and tools for natural product and chemical biology research.

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