Principal Investigators

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	Dr. Constance Alabert Principal Investigator DNA replication in the context of chromatin – Implications for human diseases
	Professor Dario Alessi FRS FRSE Professor of Signal Transduction and Director of MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC-PPU) and the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy Unit (DSTT) Understanding signalling pathways mutated in inherited disorders
	Professor Simon Arthur Professor of Immune Signalling and Deputy Head of the Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology Signaling networks that control inflammation
	Professor Geoff Barton FRSB Professor of Bioinformatics Protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis and function prediction
	Professor Paul Birch FRSE Professor of Plant Pathology and Head of Division of Plant Sciences Plant pathogen interactions
	Professor Julian Blow FRSE FMedSci Professor of Chromosome Maintenance How DNA replication is organised and controlled to ensure precise chromosome duplication
	Dr Jorunn Bos Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellow
	Professor John Brown Chair of Molecular Plant Sciences RNA processing and expression
	Dr Davide Bulgarelli Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow Structure, function and host control of the plant microbiota
	Dr Paul Campbell Associate Principal Investigator The application of Physics to Biology
	Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Cellular Immunology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow T-lymphocyte signal transduction
	Professor Alessio Ciulli FRSC Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology Chemical and Structural Biology of Protein-Protein Interactions
	Professor Geoffrey Codd FRSE Emeritus Professor of Microbiology Cyanotoxins and microbial metabolites
	Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Enzymology and Co-Director of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) Signaling Networks that Regulate the Innate Immune System
	Professor Tricia Cohen FRSB Professor of Molecular Biology Protein phosphatases in cellular regulation
	Dr Sarah Coulthurst Reader and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Bacterial pathogens and protein secretion systems
	Professor Victoria Cowling Professor of Biology, Lister Institute Fellow, MRC Senior Fellow and Deputy-Head of The Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression mRNA cap regulation
	Professor Paul Crocker FRSE Professor of Glycoimmunology and Head of the Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology Glycan-dependent regulation of immune and inflammatory responses
	Professor Kim Dale Associate Dean (International) Establishing the vertebrate embryonic body plan
	Dr Helge Dorfmueller Royal Society and Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow Investigation of cell wall biogenesis in Streptococci
	Professor Alan Fairlamb CBE, FLS, FRSE, FMedSci, FSB Professor of Biochemistry and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow Biochemical Drug Targets in Parasites
	Professor Sir Mike Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci Regius Professor of Life Sciences Molecular parasitology, glycobiology and drug discovery
	Professor Mark Field Professor of Cell Biology and Parasitology Molecular parasitology, intracellular transport, gene expression, eukaryotic evolution
	Dr Greg Findlay Programme Leader MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit Embryonic Stem Cell Signaling Modules
	Professor Andy Flavell Associate Staff Structure, evolution and biodiversity of crop plant genomes
	Professor Geoff Gadd FSB FLS FLSW FRSE Boyd Baxter Chair of Biology Geomicrobiology, Geomycology and Bioremediation
	Dr Ian Ganley Programme Leader Molecular analysis of autophagy
	Professor Anton Gartner Professor of Genetics C. elegans genetics as a model to study basic biological problems
	Professor Ian Gilbert FRSC Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Head of the Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery Design and synthesis of potential therapeutic agents
	Dr David Gray Head of Biology Molecular Pharmacology and Compound Screening
	Professor Claire Halpin FRSE Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Plant Biology and Biotechnology Manipulation of plant metabolism using reverse genetics
	Professor Grahame Hardie FRS, FRSE, FMedSci Professor of Cellular Signalling The LKB1-AMPK signalling cascade
	Professor Ron Hay FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Molecular Biology Role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in transcriptional regulation
	Dr Ingo Hein Principal Investigator Plant Pathogen Co-evolution
	Dr Piers Hemsley Principal Investigator Regulation of protein function in plants by S-acylation
	Professor Andrew Hopkins FRSC FRSE Chair of Medicinal Informatics and SULSA Research Professor of Translational Biology Chemoinformatics, chemogenomics and drug discovery
	Professor David Horn FRSE Professor of Parasite Molecular Biology Antigenic variation, drug resistance and RNAi screens in trypanosomes
	Dr Edgar Huitema Senior Lecturer Mechanisms of virulence acquisition during Phytophthora-host associations
	Professor Hari Hundal FHEA FSB Professor of Molecular Physiology Hormonal, nutrient and stress-mediated modulation of fuel and energy metabolism
	Professor Bill Hunter FRSE, FMedSci, FRSC Professor of Structural Biology Protein structure and function; fundamental chemical biology and early stage antimicrobial drug discovery
	Dr Jens Januschke Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow Dynamics of cell polarisation
	Professor Lyn Jones Emeritus Professor of Plant Ecology The Adaptation of Plants to Environmental Stresses
	Dr. Yogesh Kulathu Programme Leader Ubiquitin signalling mechanisms
	Professor Karim Labib FRSE Professor of Genome Integrity Roles and regulation of the eukaryotic replisome in preserving genome integrity and epigenetics
	Professor Angus Lamond FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Biochemistry Nuclear structure proteomics and gene expression
	Professor David Lilley FRS FRSE FRSC Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Cancer Research UK Nucleic Acid Structure Research Group Nucleic acid structure
	Professor Carol MacKintosh Professor of Molecular Signalling and Head of Postgraduate Studies Diabetes and cancer as disorders of 'signal multiplexing' in the vertebrate animals
	Dr. David McEwan Independent Investigator
	Dr Sarah McKim Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellow Developmental biology of plant architecture
	Professor Irwin McLean FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Human Genetics Dermatology and Genetic Medicine - treating genetic disease
	Dr. Ignacio Moraga Gonzalez Principal Investigator
	Professor Miratul Muqit Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Clinical Science and Programme Leader Elucidation of the PINK1 signaling pathway in Parkinson’s disease
	Dr David Murray Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow Understand the basic molecular mechanics in the formation of subcellular structures
	Dr Philip Murray Lecturer of Mathematics
	Professor Inke Nathke Professor of Epithelial Biology and Cancer, Deputy Head of the Division of Cell & Developmental Biology From molecules to tissue architecture
	Dr David Norman Reader in Structural Biology Magnetic Resonance, FRET, EPR, Spin-labeling and PELDOR
	Professor Tom Owen-Hughes FRSE Professor of Chromatin Structure and Function, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Chromatin structure and gene regulation
	Dr Mattie Pawlowic Principal Investigator, Lecturer
	Dr. Federico Pelisch MRC Career Development Fellow
	Dr Andrei Pisliakov Senior Lecturer in Physics & Dundee Fellow Computational Biophysics
	Dr Kasper Rasmussen Principal Investigator Investigating the regulation and function of DNA methylation in hematopoiesis
	Professor John Raven FRS FRSE Emeritus Professor Interactions among resources in the growth of phytoplankton
	Professor Kevin Read Professor of Quantitative Pharmacology and Head of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Drug discovery, lead optimisation and preclinical development
	Professor John Rouse FRSE Programme Leader in Protein Phosphorylation Control of chromosome stability and DNA repair in health and disease
	Dr Adrien Rousseau Principal Investigator
	Dr Gopal Sapkota Programme Leader in Protein Phosphorylation Untangling the TGFβ and Wnt signalling networks in cells, development and human diseases
	Professor Pauline Schaap FRSE Professor of Developmental Signalling Experimental and evolutionary reconstruction of developmental signalling pathways
	Dr. Gabriele Schweikert Principal Investigator Computational Biology
	Professor Gordon Simpson Professor of Molecular Genetics and Deputy Head of Division of Plant Sciences RNA and Development
	Dr Rastko Sknepnek Senior Lecturer and Dundee Fellow Computational soft condensed matter and biophysics group
	Professor Janet Sprent OBE, FRSE Emeritus Professor of Plant Biology and Nodulation in legumes
	Professor Nicola Stanley-Wall FRSE FRSB FEAM Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Head of the Division of Molecular Microbiology Understanding the molecular mechanism of biofilm formation
	Professor Mike Stark Emeritus Professor of Yeast Molecular Biology Regulation of Yeast Cell Growth and Division
	Dr Marios Stavridis Programme Lead (Biological Sciences) & Principal Investigator Pluripotent stem cell biology
	Professor Kate Storey FRSE FMedSci Professor of Neural Development and Head of the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology Neural differentiation in embryos and embryonic stem cells
	Dr. Mahima Swamy Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow Immune interactions at the intestinal epithelium
	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 Peter Taylor Research Associate in Molecular Physiology Mechanisms of amino acid transport across mammalian cell membranes
	Professor Daan van Aalten FRSE Professor of Biological Chemistry The role of the O-GlcNAc posttranslational modification in neurodegeneration
	Professor Van Steensel Clinical Professor of Genetic Dermatology Genetic dermatology - from the clinical identification of novel disorders to ciliary biology
	Dr Satpal Virdee Programme Leader in Protein Ubiquitylation Chemical Biology Approaches for Studying The Ubiquitin System
	Professor Colin Watts FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Immunobiology The Cell Biology of the Immune System
	Professor Robbie Waugh FRSE Personal Chair of Crop Genomics Personal Chair of Crop Genomics
	Professor Kees Weijer FRSE Professor of Developmental Physiology and Head of Systems Biology Cell-cell signalling and chemotactic cell movement during development
	Professor Jeff Williams FRSE Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Signal transduction pathways that regulate Dictyostelium gene expression
	Professor Jenny Woof FRSB, FHEA Professor and Associate Dean (Quality & Academic Standards)
	Professor Paul Wyatt FRSE Professor of Drug Discovery and Head of the Drug Discovery Unit The discovery of therapeutics for neglected diseases and the translation of novel biology through small molecule drug discovery
	Ulrich Zachariae Reader/PI Computational Biophysics and Drug Discovery
	Dr Joost Zomerdijk Reader in Gene Regulation and Expression and Programme Lead for MSc Biomedical and Molecular Sciences programmes Molecular mechanisms and control in transcription by RNA polymerase I

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Principal Investigators

Dr. Constance Alabert

Professor Dario Alessi FRS FRSE

Professor Simon Arthur

Professor Geoff Barton FRSB

Professor Paul Birch FRSE

Professor Julian Blow FRSE FMedSci

Dr Jorunn Bos

Professor John Brown

Dr Davide Bulgarelli

Dr Paul Campbell

Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci

Professor Alessio Ciulli FRSC

Professor Geoffrey Codd FRSE

Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS FRSE FMedSci

Professor Tricia Cohen FRSB

Dr Sarah Coulthurst

Professor Victoria Cowling

Professor Paul Crocker FRSE

Professor Kim Dale

Dr Helge Dorfmueller

Professor Alan Fairlamb CBE, FLS, FRSE, FMedSci, FSB

Professor Sir Mike Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci

Professor Mark Field

Dr Greg Findlay

Professor Andy Flavell

Professor Geoff Gadd FSB FLS FLSW FRSE

Dr Ian Ganley

Professor Anton Gartner

Professor Ian Gilbert FRSC

Dr David Gray

Professor Claire Halpin FRSE

Professor Grahame Hardie FRS, FRSE, FMedSci

Professor Ron Hay FRS FRSE FMedSci

Dr Ingo Hein

Dr Piers Hemsley

Professor Andrew Hopkins FRSC FRSE

Professor David Horn FRSE

Dr Edgar Huitema

Professor Hari Hundal FHEA FSB

Professor Bill Hunter FRSE, FMedSci, FRSC

Dr Jens Januschke

Professor Lyn Jones

Dr. Yogesh Kulathu

Professor Karim Labib FRSE

Professor Angus Lamond FRS FRSE FMedSci

Professor David Lilley FRS FRSE FRSC

Professor Carol MacKintosh

Dr. David McEwan

Dr Sarah McKim

Professor Irwin McLean FRS FRSE FMedSci

Dr. Ignacio Moraga Gonzalez

Professor Miratul Muqit

Dr David Murray

Dr Philip Murray

Professor Inke Nathke

Dr David Norman

Professor Tom Owen-Hughes FRSE

Dr Mattie Pawlowic

Dr. Federico Pelisch

Dr Andrei Pisliakov

Dr Kasper Rasmussen

Professor John Raven FRS FRSE

Professor Kevin Read

Professor John Rouse FRSE

Dr Adrien Rousseau

Dr Gopal Sapkota

Professor Pauline Schaap FRSE

Dr. Gabriele Schweikert

Professor Gordon Simpson

Dr Rastko Sknepnek

Professor Janet Sprent OBE, FRSE

Professor Nicola Stanley-Wall FRSE FRSB FEAM

Professor Mike Stark

Dr Marios Stavridis

Professor Kate Storey FRSE FMedSci

Dr. Mahima Swamy

Professor Jason Swedlow FRSE