Former Fellows

Title of Research Project

Anisotropic retinal circuits for processing of colour and space in nature.

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MIT Technology Review, Europe. ​ “Innovators under 35″, 2016
Eppendorf & Nature. Young European Investigator Award, 2017
Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), 2019
Granted Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2020
Awarded Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact, 2019
Awarded the Boehringer Igeleim FENS research Awards, 2022
Voted onto the IBRO PERC Committee, 2022
Elected Member of EMBO, 2023

Fellow 1990-1997

Area of Current Research Interests
Molecular mechanisms underlying the long term persistence of bacterial infections in bones and joints.

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Elected to a three-year non-stipendiary medical research fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, June 1992.
Appointed Hon Senior Registrar with Oxford RHA for one year from 1.10.92 and granted unpaid leave of absence during this period.
Granted further year’s unpaid leave of absence to 31.12.94.
Promoted to Hon Consultant status from 1.1.95.
Resigned fellowship to take up appointment as Consultant Physician in Charge of the Bone Infection Unit at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, from 1.9.97.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1998.
Medical Director, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, 2003.

Fellow 1999-2005

Area of Current Research Interests
Mycobacterial cell wall biosynthesis: structure, function and biological implications in tuberculosis.

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Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Awarded the 1999 W.H. Pierce Prize from the Society of Applied Microbiology.
Promoted to Professor of Microbial Physiology, 2000
Granted unpaid leave from 1.2.02 to 1.8.02 to re-establish research (fellowship now finishes 31.3.05).
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2006.
The Biochemical Society: Biochemical Society Award, 2008

Fellow 1991-1996

Area of Current Research Interests
Chromatin and nuclear organisation of the mammalian genome, gene packaging and organisation within the chromosomes.

Other Information
Appointed Senior Scientist in the MRC Human Genetics Unit, 1.10.96.
1997 Genetical Society Balfour Lecturer.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1997.
Awarded the James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowship in Human Genetics, 1999.
Elected a member of EMBO, 2001.
Nominated as Charles Darwin Award Lecturer 2001, at the BAAS.
Appointed Hon Lecturer, University of Edinburgh.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2005.
Elected a Member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee, 2008.
Appointed Head of Section: Chromosome and Gene Expression, MRC Human Genetics Unit, 2009.
Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science, 2005.
Elected a Member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee, 2008-2013.
Head of Chromosome & Gene Expression, MRC Human Genetics Unit, 2009.
Appointed to Institute’s Governing Body, 2013, re-elected 2018.
President of the Genetics Society, 2015.
Director MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, 2015.
Elected to the Royal Society, 2017
Awarded CBE, 2021

Fellow 2005-2009

Area of Current Research Interests
Functional genomics of malaria parasite development and mosquito transmission.

Other Information
Moved to Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, 2007.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2010.
Moved to Umeå University, Sweden, 2018.
Appointed Professor Umeå University, Sweden, 2018.
Director Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden 2018.
ERC Advanced Grant, 2018.

Fellow 1991-1996

Area of Current Research Interests
Interests are chromosome replication and the cell cycle.

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Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Appointed Senior Scientist at ICRF from 1.7.96.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1997.
Director, CRC Chromosome Replication Research Group, University of Dundee, from November 1997.
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, from 1.11.97.
Elected member of EMBO, 1999.
Appointed Reader 1.10.00.
Awarded a personal chair in Chromosome Maintenance, November 2001.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, March 2002.
Elected Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, 2012.
Appointed Dean of Research for College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, August 2014.
Appointed Dean of School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, April 2016.
Appointed member of the Institute’s Scientific Committee, 2019.
Professor of Chromosome Maintenance and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation at the University of East Anglia, 2024

Fellow 1983-1987

Area of Current Research Interests
Active in research management, education and administration. General interest in infectious diseases and viral infection processes.

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Temporary Clinical Senior Registrar 1.4.86 – 31.12.86.
Hon Senior Lecturer/Consultant from 1.4.87.
Appointed Wellcome Senior Lecturer, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, having resigned Lister Fellowship, 1.1.88.
Appointed Lecturer in Medicine, University of Cambridge, 1988.
Appointed Professor of Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, 1.1.91.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1993.
Appointed to the Council of the MRC, 1995.
Elected member of the Institute’s SAC, 1996.
Appointed Chairman of the Molecular & Cell Medicines Board, 1996.
Elected as Foreign Member of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Polish Academy of Arts & Science, 1998.
Chairman of the Hospital-based Clinical Subjects Unit of Assessment Panel for the 2001 RAE.
Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 1998.
Knighthood, New Year’s Honours List, 2001
Appointed Principal, Imperial College School of Medicine from 1.2.01.
Appointed Chairman of the Joint Medical Advisory Committee to the Higher Education Funding Council 2002.
Appointed Deputy Rector, Imperial College London, 1.10.04.
Appointed Chief Executive, MRC, 2008.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2008.
Appointed Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge, 2010.
Appointed Chairman, Cancer Research UK, 2017.
Appointed Board Trustee, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 2017
Appointed Governor, Director & Charity Trustee, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2019
Appointed Council Member, Imperial College London, August 2021

Fellow 1986-1991

Area of Current Research Interests
Now in industry. Interested in business opportunity development in the bioscience sector. Technical interest in the molecular basis of infection and bacterial virulence.

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Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Reader in the Department of Microbiology from 1.10.87.
Professor (Personal Chair) in the Department of Microbiology from 1.10.89.
Selected 1989 Fleming Lecturer of the Society for General Microbiology.
Elected member of the Council for the Society of General Microbiology from 4.9.90 for 4 years.
Member of the MRC & WHO Committees on Polysaccharide Vaccines.
Member of the Cabinet Office Committee on the Human Genome.

Fellow 1999-2003

Area of Current Research Interests
The regulation of gene activity: specifically, how the level of gene transcription is regulated after activation and how chromatin packaging is disrupted to allow accessibility to genetic information.

Other Information
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2004.
Moved to the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, 1.10.04 as a University Research Fellow.

Fellow 2004-2015

Area of Current Research Interests
Using yeast as a model system to understand the insulin-dependent trafficking of GLUT4 in adipocytes

Other Information
Prize Fellowship extended until 31.12.13.
Promoted to Reader, August 2010.
Fellowship extended to 31.08.15.
Moved to University of York, 2014.

Fellow 2008-2013

Area of Current Research Interests
Molecular cell biology of cytoskeletal transport.

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Elected a member of the Institute 2014.
Elected a member of EMBO, 2015.

Fellow 1989-1994

Area of Current Research Interests
The biogenesis, regulation and genetic deficiencies of the microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase proteins. Glucose metabolism during embryo development, particularly studying the molecular basis of failure to maintain glucose homeostasis.

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Senior Lecturer retrospectively from 1.10.89.
Reader in the Department of Medicine from 1.10.92.
Elected a Member of the Institute, July 1995.
Promoted to Professor of Molecular Medicine, 1.2.00.

Fellow 2009-2014

Area of Current Research Interests
Studying the emergence of neuronal circuits during brain development

Other Information
Elected a member of the Institute, 2015.

Fellow 1985-1991

Area of Current Research Interests
Generation of human antibodies in response to infectious agents, particularly HIV and the impact of this on vaccine design.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.10.87.
One year’s sabbatical at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, July 1989 to August 1990.
Fellowship extended by 2 yrs to Sept 1992 & sabbatical leave at the Scripps Inst extended by 1 yr to Aug 1991.
Appointed Professor (Personal Chair) in the Department of Biochemistry from 1.10.90.
Resigned fellowship on appointment to the staff of the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, on 1.10.91.
1995-2005 NIH Merit Award.
Elected a Member of the Institute 2003.

Fellow 1994-1998

Area of Current Research Interests
The cellular and developmental biology of the filamentous, antibiotic-producing bacteria Streptomyces. Fundamental aspects of bacterial transcription. The regulatory networks and cyclic nucleotide signalling events that control sporulation in Streptomyces.

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Appointed Group Leader, John Innes Centre, 1990.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1999.
Appointed Professor, 2005.
Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2009.
Appointed Head, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, 2012.
Appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, 2017.
Appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Microbiology of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, 2019.
Appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2022