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Institute for Life Sciences

Our people

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 380 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Professor Joanne Turney

Professor of Fashion and Textiles

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Professor Joerg Wiedenmann

Professor of Biological Oceanography

Research interests

  • Coral Reef Biology and Ecology
  • Coral Bleaching
  • Nutrient biology of coral reefs

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Dr Joern Werner

Reader in Structural Biology
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Professor John Holloway PhD, FHEA

Associate V-P Interdisciplinary Research

Research interests

  • Human genetics
  • Epigenetics
  • Respiratory Disease

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Professor Jon Dawson

Prof Fellow of Regenerative Medicine
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Professor Jonathan Essex

Professor

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Dr Jonathan Swann

Professor of Biomolecular Medicine

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Dr Jonathan West

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Time-Resolved Structural Biology The emergence of serial crystallography brings many exciting possibilities for structural biology but also brings the challenge of preparing many thousands of sub-micron crystals. To address this, we are working with Ivo Tews and Allen Orville to develop high throughput droplet microfluidic systems. Here volumetric confinement of the phase diagram defines growth limits for producing monodisperse protein crystals. Beyond this, the microfluidic processors can be interfaced with the beam line to enable dynamic structural biology.

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Dr Jorn Cheney

Lecturer in Natural Sciences

Research interests

  • Locomotion
  • Wing morphing
  • Tissues and tissue mechanics

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Dr Jorn Lakowski

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Retinal Disease Modelling
  • Retinal Development
  • Drug Screening

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