Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression

Principal Investigators

	Professor Julian Blow FRSE FMedSci Professor of Chromosome Maintenance How DNA replication is organised and controlled to ensure precise chromosome duplication
	Professor Victoria Cowling Professor of Biology, Lister Institute Fellow, MRC Senior Fellow and Deputy-Head of The Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression Investigating the regulation, function and therapeutic potential of the mRNA cap
	Professor Anton Gartner Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Reader C. elegans genetics as a model to study basic biological problems
	Professor Ron Hay Professor of Molecular Biology Role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in transcriptional regulation
	Professor Angus Lamond FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Biochemistry Nuclear structure proteomics and gene expression
	Professor Tom Owen-Hughes FRSE Professor of Chromatin Structure and Function, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Chromatin structure and gene regulation
	Professor Mike Stark Emeritus Professor of Yeast Molecular Biology Regulation of Yeast Cell Growth and Division
	Professor Jason Swedlow FRSE Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology Mitotic chromosome dynamics
	Professor Tomo Tanaka FRSE Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Mechanisms ensuring proper chromosome segregation in mitosis
	Dr Joost Zomerdijk Reader in Gene Regulation and Expression Molecular mechanisms and control in transcription by RNA polymerase I
	Dr. Constance Alabert Principal Investigator DNA replication in the context of chromatin – Implications for human diseases

Associate Principal Investigators

	Professor Geoff Barton FRSB Professor of Bioinformatics Protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis and function prediction
	Professor Sonia Rocha Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and CR-UK Senior Research Fellow. Investigating the mechanisms controlling gene expression in hypoxia
	Professor Gordon Simpson Professor of Molecular Genetics and Deputy Head of Division of Plant Sciences RNA and Development
	Professor Daan van Aalten FRSE Professor of Biological Chemistry The role of the O-GlcNAc posttranslational modification in neurodegeneration