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The Chemistry/Biology Interface

Name Research Areas Institution Keywords
Prof. Paul N Barlow Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh protein structure, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, immunology, complement system
Dr Perdita E Barran Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh biological mass Spectrometry; instrument and technique development; protein structure and interactions; HDX; proteomics; molecular modelling.
Dr Helen Baxter Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh protein detection, microscopy, spectroscopy and immunology
Prof. Robert L Baxter Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh enzyme mechanisms, protein detection and spectroscopy, natural product chemistry and biosynthesis
Dr Catherine H Botting Chemistry/Biology Interface St Andrews mass spectrometry of biological molecules with an emphasis on proteomics
Prof. Mark Bradley Chemistry/Biology Interface, Materials, Synthesis Edinburgh microarrays (cells, enzymatic assays, small molecules, and polymers), cellular delivery (DNA, proteins, peptides), high-throughput chemistry
Dr Colin Campbell Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh biosensor research, electrochemistry, fluorescence, nanotechnology.
Dr Dominic Campopiano Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis Edinburgh natural product biosynthesis, enzymology, protein structure, antibiotics, defensins, antimicrobial resistance, iron uptake, innate immunity
Dr Scott L. Cockroft Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis Edinburgh physical organic chemistry, molecular recognition, non-covalent interactions, supramolecular chemistry, single-molecule biophysics, molecular machines
Dr Simon N Daff Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh NO synthase, biological electron transfer, bioelectrochemistry, enzyme mechanisms
Dr Changjiang Dong Chemistry/Biology Interface St Andrews Chemical and membrane biology, structure and function of membrane protein and membrane protein complex, infection and cancer, structure-based drug design, drug synthesis by novel enzymes.
Dr David TF Dryden Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh protein-DNA interactions, bio-molecular machines, protein mimics of DNA structure, fluorescence spectroscopy, single-molecule imaging, prokaryotic DNA restriction and modification systems
Dr Gordon Florence Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis St Andrews organic synthesis; bioactive natural products and structural analogues; new methods and strategies for asymmetric stereocontrol
Dr Cristina Flors Chemistry/Biology Interface, Chemical Physics Edinburgh single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, photochemistry, photophysics, super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Dr Michael F Greaney Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis Edinburgh synthetic organic chemistry, Chemistry/Biology Interface, natural product synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, medicinal chemistry
Dr Mathew R Heal Chemistry/Biology Interface, Chemical Physics Edinburgh field and laboratory measurements of atmospheric trace species concentrations and fluxes, urban air quality and the impact on health
Dr Alison N Hulme Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis Edinburgh natural product synthesis, asymmetric synthetic methodology, Chemistry/Biology Interface, tagging and imaging in biological systems, historical dyestuffs
Dr Anita Jones Chemistry/Biology Interface, Materials Edinburgh photophysics and photochemistry, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, DNA conformation and interactions, microfluidics
Prof. David A Leigh FRS Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis Edinburgh synthetic organic chemistry, design and synthesis of functional molecules, supramolecules and macromolecules, artificial "molecular machines"
Dr Juan Mareque-Rivas Chemistry/Biology Interface, Materials, Synthesis Edinburgh ligand design, molecular recognition, bio-inorganic chemistry, self-assembled monolayers, catalysis, nanomaterials and electrochemistry
Dr John Mitchell Chemistry/Biology Interface St Andrews structural bioinformatics, enzyme reaction mechanisms, chemoinformatics, solubility, machine learning, computational toxicology
Dr Andrew R Mount Chemistry/Biology Interface, Materials Edinburgh electrochemistry, modified electrodes, biosensors, microelectrode arrays, electrochemical machining, electrochemical synthesis, molten salts
Dr Chris Mowat Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh redox proteins, protein crystallography, enzyme mechanisms, bacterial respiration.
Prof. James H Naismith Chemistry/Biology Interface St Andrews protein chemistry, enzyme mechanism, natural product biosynthesis, drug resistant bacteria, crystallography
Prof. David O'Hagan Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis St Andrews organic chemistry, organo-fluorine chemistry, biological chemistry, natural products, biotransformations, enzyme mechanism, biosynthesis
Dr Rosario M Sánchez-Martín Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh cellular delivery (drugs, sensors, oligonucleotides, proteins, peptides, probes); carrier systems; intracellular sensing; high-throughput screening
Dr Terry Smith Chemistry/Biology Interface St Andrews molecular parasitology, phosholipid metabolism, glycosyltransferases, mass spectrometry and carbohydrate chemistry
Dr Dusan Uhrin Chemistry/Biology Interface Edinburgh NMR spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics, protein-carbohydrate complexes, pulse sequence development
Dr Nicholas J Westwood Chemistry/Biology Interface, Synthesis St Andrews Synthetic chemistry, natural products. chemical
genetics, interdisciplinary research, diversity-oriented synthesis
 
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