Group Members

Professor Richard Napier; Group leader
Dr Charo del Genio; Collaborator and senior lecturer in statistical physics at the University of Coventry. Mathematician, molecular dynamics.
Dr Justyna Prusinska; Post-doctoral researcher. Funded by Dow AgroSciences to examine novel auxin herbicides [maternity leave]
Dr Gaurav Singh; Visiting academic fellow, Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Project; Structure and function of PIN proteins
Dr Martin Kubes; Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. Starting 01 August 2018. Project; Structure and function of PIN proteins.
Fangfang Zhang; PhD student jointly supervised by Prof Alex Cameron. Project; Structure and function of PIN proteins
Sireethorn Tungsirisurp; PhD student funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Jointly supervised by Prof Rachel O'Reilly (Chemistry). Project; Aptamer-based nanosensors for auxin
Xinghao Zhou; PhD student jointly supervised by Prof Alex Cameron. Project; The structure and function of PIN proteins
Chitra Joshi; PhD student jointly supervised by Prof Alex Cameron. Project; The structure and function of AUX1.

Recent graduations and leavers:

Dr Veselina Uzunova; BBSRC post-doctoral researcher. Thermodynamics and the mechanism of auxin binding.
Dr Mussa Quareshy; BBSRC and MIBTP-funded research student. Congratulations! PhD awarded 2017. Project; Drug discovery for novel auxins. - View Mussa Quareshy's profile
Dr Victor Quan; MOAC-supported PhD student jointly supervised with Prof Rachel O'Reilly and Dr Vas Stavros in Chemistry. Congratulations! PhD awarded 2017. Project; Self-assembling, porphyrin-containing polymers
Alex Fullwood; PhD student jointly supervised with Dr Christophe Corre. Project; Binding of natural metabolites to bacterial transcriptional repressors as tools for synthetic biology
Dr Li, Jun; Visiting academic fellow from Nanjing Agricultural University, PR China. Expertise; Resistance to auxin herbicides

Group Photo 2017
Justyna's maternity leaving party