The Biophysical Sciences Institute is a community of excellent interdisciplinary academics.
Areas of Expertise: Animal Cells and Systems
Research Interests: Collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches to tackling wound repair, cancer and antimicrobial resistance.
Areas of Expertise: Soft Matter Physics
Research Interests
Areas of Expertise: Complex Fluids and Interfaces
Areas of Expertise: Neurobiology, Structure and Function of Sensory Receptors in Muscle
Areas of Expertise: Biomolecular Interactions, Genomics, Single-molecule Biophysics
Areas of Expertise: Plant Cell Biology
Areas of Expertise: Computational Neuroscience
Research Interests: How the nervous system deals with uncertainty, whether in perception, decision making or learning.
Areas of Expertise: Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology
Areas of Expertise: Microbiology, Genomics, Biochemistry, X-ray Crystallography
Area of Expertise: Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanics
Areas of Expertise: Biochemistry
Areas of Expertise: Neuroscience, Chronic Pain, Pharmacology
Research Interests: Identifying and validating novel drug targets and prodromal bio- and behavioural-markers for a range of common chronic neurological and metabolic pathologies.
Areas of Expertise: Bioinorganic Chemistry
Research Interests: Molecular determinants of microbial metal homeostasis.
Areas of Expertise: Synthetic Chemistry, Peptoid and Peptide Chemistry
Areas of Expertise: Neurobiology, (Single-cell) Transcriptomics, Behaviour
Research Interests: Effects of nutritional state and drugs of abuse on neuronal physiology, gene expression and behaviour.
Areas of Expertise: Cell Division
Areas of Expertise: Molecular Dynamics, Machine Learning, Computational Biophysics
Research Interests: The development of protein-protein docking methods, and techniques combining machine learning and molecular dynamics simulations to sample protein conformational spaces.
Areas of Expertise: Cell Biology, Parasitology, Lipid Biochemistry
Areas of Expertise: Metals in Biology
Areas of Expertise: Stem Cells, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Drosophila melanogaster
Areas of Expertise: Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Areas of Expertise: Fluid Mechanics, Vortex Dynamics
Areas of Expertise: Advanced Photonics and Optical Technologies
Areas of Expertise: Molecular Cell Biology
Areas of Expertise: Probability and Stochastic Processes
Areas of Expertise: Developmental Biology; Animal Cells and Systems, Stem Cells
Areas of Expertise: Biomedical image and signal processing, Artificial Intelligence
Areas of Expertise: Animal Cell Biology, Disease
Areas of Expertise: Electrochemistry, Sensors
Areas of Expertise: Synthetic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry & Functional Molecules
Areas of Expertise: Molecular Plant Cell Biology
Areas of Expertise: Plant Molecular Cell Biology, Plant Signalling
Research Interests: How stress information is encoded in calcium responses and how this is decoded by plants to produce the appropriate survival response.
Areas of Expertise: Mathematical and Computational Modelling
Areas of Expertise: Soft Matter, Biophysics
Areas of Expertise: Clinical Neuropsychology
Research Interests: Identification of plant intracellular signalling molecules - roots and development
Areas of Expertise: Systems biology
Research Interests: Hormone and Calcium Signalling in Plants.
Areas of Expertise: Adaptive Optics, Vision Science, Optical Instrumentation
Research Interests: The mechanisms behind how the eye focusses light and its ramifications for VR displays
Areas of Expertise: Polymer Chemistry, Molecular Recognition, Biological Chemistry
Areas of Expertise: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Animal Cells and Systems
Areas of Expertise: Psychophysiology, Systems Biology
Research Interests: Using biological models to understand social behaviours and higher levels cognitions.
Areas of Expertise: Structural biology, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Virology
Areas of Expertise: Biochemistry, Metalloproteins, p53, Cancer, Cell Engulfment
Areas of Expertise: Visual and multisensory perception
Areas of Expertise: Physical Organic Chemistry, Catalysis, Synthesis, Kinetics and mechanism, Kinetic acidity and pKa determination
Areas of Expertise: Chemical physics, Biophysics
Areas of Expertise: Mathematical Physics and Biophysics
Areas of Expertise: Structural Biology
Areas of Expertise: Magnetohydrodynamics, Topological Constraints
Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering Human Tissues, Development and Translation of Advanced Cell Technologies, Cell and Tissue Differentiation in Health and Disease, 3Rs – Developing Alternatives for Animals in Research
Areas of Expertise: Signalling and Animal Cell Systems
Areas of Expertise: Cell Biology of Metals
Areas of Expertise: Molecular Plant Sciences
Research Interests: Polypeptide tags: Protein Modification systems such as Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifiers (SUMO) and their roles in plants' resilience under a changing climate.
Areas of Expertise: Conservation, Ecology, Quantitative Tools & Technology
Research Interests: The use of quantitative tools and technology to understand the drivers of biodiversity loss.
Areas of Expertise: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
Areas of Expertise: Biophysics, Biological Membranes, Functional Interfaces, Living Materials
Areas of Expertise: Synthetic Chemistry, Chemical Biology
Areas of Expertise: Biological Applications of Mathematics
Areas of Expertise: Human Psychophysics, Psychoacoustics, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Areas of Expertise: Applied & Computational Mathematics, Mathematical Biology
Areas of Expertise: Biological Physics, Experimental Soft Matter
Areas of Expertise: Animal Cells and Systems, Ageing, Microbiome, Automated Analysis of Ageing
Research Interests: Study of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans to gain insights into basic biological processes such as ageing and host:microbe interactions.
Areas of Expertise: Chemical Biology, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design & Development, Synthetic Chemistry, Catalysis
Areas of Expertise: Computer Science
Research Interests: Deep generative modelling, such as diffusion probabilistic models and normalising flows, with applications in unpaired domain translation, anomaly detection, physics, biology and chemistry.
Areas of Expertise: Synthetic Chemistry, Metal Complexes, Luminescence and Bio-imaging