Cluster people
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Professor Miriam Gifford
Head of School
Root-endosphere-symbiosis interactions and circadian-shaping of nodulation
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Dr Seamus Holden
Sir Henry Dale Fellow
Bacterial cell biophysics and single molecule fluorescence microscopy
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Dr Andrew Nelson
Associate Professor
I am a developmental biologist interested in gene regulatory control of cell fate in the early vertebrate embryo and mammalian placenta. My group primarily uses functional genomics and transcriptomics to investigate how cellular identities are programmed at the level of chromatin.
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Dr Steve Parnell
Assistant Professor
An epidemiologist and modeller focusing on how detection and control strategies for plant and crop diseases can be improved.
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Dr Christopher Rodrigues
Associate Professor
A molecular microbiologist interested in bacterial biology and how bacterial cells develop into highly resistant dormant spores
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Dr Antonia Sagona
Associate Professor
A molecular microbiologist focusing on identifying the molecular and cellular mechanisms of phage therapy, using synthetic and cell biology tools
Research staff
Dr Javier Antunez Sanchez | Dr Chiara Borsetto | Dr Emily Breeze | Dr Lauren Chappell |
Dr Matthew Combes | Dr Simone Coppola | Dr Kelsey Cremin | Dr Philip Davies |
Dr Ruma Debbarma | Dr Gizem Dimlioglu | Dr Said El-Hassan |
Dr Manuel Godoy |
Dr Shannon Greer |
Dr Adite Kibe |
Dr Joshuo Koh |
Dr Jessica Lewis |
Dr Andrew McMahon |
Dr Sarbjit Nijjar |
Dr David Roberts |
Dr Erin Stroud |
Dr Liam Walker |
Dr Robert West |
Dr Chao Ye |
Dr Jing Yuan |