Members of the Asbury Centre.
As well as the members listed below the Astbury Centre also provides a vibrant supportive environment for Fellows. Details of our current Fellowships holders can be found by following this link - Current Fellows
A text list of staff with their research interests can be found at the bottom of the page
Facility Managers and Administrative Support
Visiting Members
John Findlay Structure and Mechanism of Action of Membrane Proteins, Receptors and Transport Systems
Steve Homans NMR Spectroscopy
Paul Ko Ferrigno Peptide aptamers-protein engineering-artificial antibodies-protein microarrays- cancer
Mary Phillips-Jones Bacterial signalling and response to environmental change; bacterial sensing of antibiotics
Emeritus Members
Peter Johnson Molecular Modelling; Methods Development; Organic Synthesis
Peter Knowles Copper Oxidases; Free Radicals; Self-Assembly; Membranes
Tony North Macromolecular Structure
David Rowlands Structure and Replication Strategies of RNA Viruses
Members - text list
Alison Ashcroft Mass spectrometry, Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Biomolecular analysis
Stefan Auer Theoretical/Computational soft matter and biological physics
Steve Baldwin Membrane; Transport; Nucleoside; Protein structure
John Barr RNA virus nucleocapsid structure
Paul Beales Lipid membranes, Self-assembly, Nanomedicine, Synthetic Biology
Alan Berry Protein engineering; Directed evolution; Biocatalysis; Enzymology
Robin Bon Medicinal & Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Chemical Genetics.
David Brockwell Single Molecule Mechanical Unfolding of Proteins and their Complexes
Stan Burgess Cryoelectron microscopy, motor proteins, dynein structure and function
Simon Connell Atomic Force Microscopy, Lipid membranes
Kevin Critchley Self-assembly; Quantum dots, Nanowires, Self-assembled monolayers
Lorna Dougan Biophysics, Synthetic Biology, Liquids and Solutions Extreme Conditions
James Duce Neurobiology, metallomics, neurodegenerative disease
Thomas Edwards RNA Binding Proteins; X-ray Crystallography; Developmental Biology; Structural Molecular Biology
Stephen Evans Supported lipid membranes; Bio-templated nanowires and Nanostructured materials.
Colin Fishwick Medicinal chemistry, application of computer-aided methods in drug design and chemical biology
Richard Foster Medicinal chemistry, Chemical genetics, Virtual drug design, Fragment-based design
Stephen Griffin Hepatitis C virus, p7, ion channel, virus assembly
Mark Harris Hepatitis C virus, RNA protein interactions, replication, assembly
Sarah Harris Molecular dynamics simulation, theoretical biophysics
Peter Henderson Membrane Proteins, Sugar Transport, Antibiotic Resistance
Eric Hewitt Cellular Interactions with Amyloid and Molecular Immunology
Nigel Hooper Cell biology, proteolysis, Alzheimer
Lars Jeuken Bioinorganic chemistry; membrane biology; electron transfer; microbial fuel cells
Peter Johnson Molecular Modelling; Methods Development; Organic Synthesis
Peter Knight Structural Basis of Movement in Cells and Tissues
Sergei Krivov Protein folding, free energy landscapes, computational biology and biophysics.
Andrew MacDonald Structural studies on immune signaling proteins
Kenneth McDowall Macromolecular Interactions in RNA Processing and Decay
Mike McPherson Protein Engineering; Directed Evolution; Copper Oxidases; Protease Inhibitors; Functional Genomics and Proteomics
Stephen Muench Electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, V-ATPase, rational drug design
Adam Nelson Directed evolution, chemical biology, chemical genetics, diversity-oriented synthesis
Alex O'Neill Bacterial resistance to antibiotics; biological characterization of novel antibacterial agents
Peter Olmsted Biophysics, protein dynamics and mechanics, lipid membrane physics, theory and computation
Emanuele Paci Computational Biology; Protein Folding; Molecular Dynamics
Arwen Pearson Structural Enzymology and Single Crystal Spectroscopy
Michelle Peckham Myosins, molecular motors, structure, imaging
Vas Ponnambalam Endothelium; Receptor-ligand function; Atherosclerosis; Cancer
Sheena Radford Protein folding, protein aggregation, amyloid disease
Neil Ranson Cryo-EM; Image Processing; Macromolecular structure
David Rowlands Structure and Replication Strategies of RNA Viruses
Sarah S Staniland Biomineralisation of magnetic nanoparticles in magnetic bacteria
Peter Stockley Self-assembling systems: Protein-nucleic acid regulatory complexes; molecular recognition; gene expression; bionanoscience
Nicola Stonehouse Virus, molecular interactions, vaccines, aptamers
Chris Thomas Plasmid Biology; Protein-DNA and Protein-Protein Interactions
Neil Thomson Biological Physics, Bionanotechnology, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Darren Tomlinson Artificial binding proteins, protein protein interactions, oncology, diagnostics
John Trinick Molecular Motors, Bioelasticity, Giant Proteins, Cryo-electron Microscopy
Roman Tuma Virus, self-assembly, molecular motors, optical tweezers
W. Bruce Turnbull Chemical Biology, Carbohydrate chemistry, Protein modification, Protein-ligand interactions
Stuart Warriner Automated Synthesis of Oligosaccharides, Chemical Synthesis
Michael Webb Enzymology, Bioorganic Chemistry, Protein modification, Calorimetry
David Westhead Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Machine learning, Statistics
Adrian Whitehouse Viruses, cancer, KSHV, MCPyV
Andy Wilson Chemical Biology, Protein-Protein Interactions, Self-Assembly, Synthetic Chemistry
Dejian Zhou Nanoparticles, Biosensing, Nanomedicine, Chemical biology
Visiting Members
John Findlay Structure and Mechanism of Action of Membrane Proteins, Receptors and Transport Systems
Steve Homans NMR Spectroscopy
Paul Ko Ferrigno Peptide aptamers-protein engineering-artificial antibodies-protein microarrays- cancer
Mary Phillips-Jones Bacterial signalling and response to environmental change; bacterial sensing of antibiotics
Emeritus Members
Peter Johnson Molecular Modelling; Methods Development; Organic Synthesis
Peter Knowles Copper Oxidases; Free Radicals; Self-Assembly; Membranes
Tony North Macromolecular Structure
David Rowlands Structure and Replication Strategies of RNA Viruses
































































