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, Mass Spectrometry Facility Manager
Stefan Auer Computational biophysics, biological self-assembly, peptide and protein aggregation, amyloid formation.
Steve Baldwin Membrane Proteins, Membrane Transport, Signal Transduction, Vesicular Trafficking
John Barr Structural Biology, Viral gene expression
Paul Beales Nanomedicine, Membrane Biophysics, Biomolecular Self-assembly, Biomimetic Adhesion
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 Single molecule force-clamp spectroscopy, protein folding, neutron diffraction, liquids
James Duce Neurobiology, metallomics, neurodegenerative disease
Thomas Edwards Structural Biology, RNA:Protein Interactions, Molecular Control of Embryogenesis
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, Computer-aided drug design, High-throughput screening, Chemical biology
Stephen Griffin Hepatitis C virus, p7, ion channel, virus assembly
Mark Harris Structural Studies on HIV-1 Nef Protein
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 Membrane Biology, Metalloenzymes, Biophysics, Electron transfer
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 and protein complexes
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 Protein folding/unfolding, protein dynamics, membranes, motility.
Emanuele Paci Computational Biology; Protein Folding; Molecular Dynamics
Arwen Pearson Structural Enzymology and Single Crystal Spectroscopy
Michelle Peckham Bio-imaging, Cell Biology, Muscle structure and differentiation, Molecular Motors
Vas Ponnambalam Structure-Function of Membrane Traffic Regulators, Membrane Binding
Sheena Radford Protein folding, Amyloid disease, New biophysical techniques, Molecular chaperones
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 RNA-Protein Interactions in viral systems; RNA aptamers
Chris Thomas Plasmid Biology; Protein-DNA and Protein-Protein Interactions
Neil Thomson Biological Physics, Bionanotechnology, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Darren Tomlinson siRNA screening – whole and part genome, selection of non-antibody binding reagents, diagnostics and target validation
John Trinick Molecular Motors, Bioelasticity, Giant Proteins, Cryo-electron Microscopy
Roman Tuma Virus, self-assembly, molecular motors, optical tweezers
W. Bruce Turnbull Carbohydrate Chemistry, Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Molecular Recognition, Multivalent Interactions
Stuart Warriner Automated Synthesis of Oligosaccharides, Chemical Synthesis
Michael Webb Enzymology, biosynthesis, biophysical techniques, chemical biology
David Westhead Bioinformatics
Adrian Whitehouse Viruses and cancer : virus-host cell interactions and novel antiviral strategies
Andy Wilson Synthetic Chemistry; Supramolecular Chemistry; Nanotechnology; Chemical Biology
Dejian Zhou Bionanotechnology, single-molecule Fluorescence, nanoparticle sensor, scanning probe microscopy
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
































































