Biography
I am interested in cell biology at the molecular level. My research group are working on two cellular processes: how cells move proteins around using membrane trafficking and how cells divide. We are trying to understand how these processes work and how they go wrong in diseases such as cancer.
I am a Professor at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick and I am part of the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology. I moved the lab to Warwick in 2013 having first established my group in Liverpool in 2006. Before that I was a post-doc at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and prior to that I did my PhD in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, UK.
My lab pursue a quantitative approach to cell biology and my book “The Digital Cell” published by Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press describes how we use computers in cell biological research. I am an Affiliate for bioRxiv and I am a Director and Deputy Chair of The Company of Biologists. For my lab’s work, I was awarded the 2021 Hooke Medal for Cell Biology from the British Society for Cell Biology.
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Experience
- University of Warwick, UK
- Professor, 2019 - present
- Cancer Research UK Senior Cancer Research Fellow, 2013 – 2019
- Associate Professor/Reader, 2013 - 2019
- University of Liverpool, UK
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, 2006 - 2013
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology UK
- Post-doc, Neurobiology Division, 2002 - 2006
- GlaxoWellcome Research & Development UK
- Industrial Trainee, Neurosciences Unit, 1997 - 1998
Education
- University of Cambridge, UK
- PhD in Pharmacology, 1999 - 2002
- University of Sheffield, UK
- BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, 1995 - 1999