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Principal Investigators

Dr Rosalind Allen Royal Society Research Fellow and Reader in Biological Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy rallen2@staffmail.ed.ac.uk Biophysics, Systems Biology			Prof Manfred Auer Professor of Translational Biology, School of Biological Sciences manfred.auer@ed.ac.uk Microscopy, BioPhysics, Drug discovery technologies, Tool compounds
Prof Paul Barlow Professor of Structural Biology, School of Biological Sciences paul.barlow@ed.ac.uk Protein structure, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, immunology, complement system			Prof Adrian Bird Buchanan Professor of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences a.bird@ed.ac.uk Epigenetics, neurodevelopmental disorders
Dr Sara Buonomo Lecturer in Epigenetics, School of Biological Sciences Sara.Buonomo@ed.ac.uk Mammalian Synthetic Biology			Dr Jane Calvert Reader in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies jane.calvert@ed.ac.uk Synthetic Biology, Synthetic Aesthetics, Social Dimensions
Dr Elise Cachat Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, School of Biological Sciences Elise.Cachat@ed.ac.uk			Dr Scott Cockroft Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry scott.cockroft@ed.ac.uk Organic Biochemistry
Dr Dominic Campopiano Chair of Industrial Biocatalysis, School of Chemistry dominic.campopiano@ed.ac.uk Organic Biochemistry			Prof Vincent Danos Chair of Computational Systems Biology, School of Informatics vdanos@exseed.ed.ac.uk Modelling
Prof Jamie Davies Professor of Experimental Anatomy, Centre for Integrative Physiology jamie.davies@ed.ac.uk Developmental Biology, Tissue Engineering			Dr Katherine Dunn Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering: Synthetic Biology School of Engineering K.Dunn@ed.ac.uk
Prof Bill Earnshaw Professor of Chromosome Dynamics, School of Biological Sciences bill.earnshaw@ed.ac.uk Epigenetics, Mammalian Synethic Biology			Prof Alistair Elfick Personal Chair of Synthetic Biological Engineering, School of Engneering alistair.elfick@ed.ac.uk Synthetic Biology, Synthetic Aesthetics
Dr Meriem El Karoui Chancellor's Fellow, School of Biological Sciences meriem.elkaroui@ed.ac.uk Modelling, Microscopy, DNA repair, e coli			Prof Charles Ffrench-Constant Director; Professor of Multiple Sclerosis Research, Centre for Regenerative Medicine cffc@ed.ac.uk Mammalian Synthetic Biology
Prof Chris French Personal Chair of Microbial Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences c.french@ed.ac.uk Biosensors, Microbial Biotechnology, DNA Assembly, biomass conversion, biocatalysis			Prof Peter Ghazal Chair of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine p.ghazal@ed.ac.uk
Prof Andrew Goryachev Chair in Computational Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences agoryach@staffmail.ed.ac.uk Budding Yeast, Modelling, Microscopy, Signal transduction, BioPhysics, pattern formation, cellular morphogenesis, computational cell biology			Dr Sander Granneman Wellcome Trust RCD Fellow, School of Biological Sciences sgrannem@staffmail.ed.ac.uk Budding Yeast, RNA Structure, degradation
Dr Sebastian Greiss Chancellor’s Fellow, Centre for Integrative Physiology s.greiss@ed.ac.uk			Dr Ramon Grima Reader, School of Biological Sciences ramon.grima@ed.ac.uk Modelling stochastic processes
Prof Karen Halliday Reader, School of Biological Sciences karen.halliday@ed.ac.uk Modelling, Plant Synthetic Biology			Dr Louise Horsfall Lecturer in Biotechnology, BiologySchool of Biological Sciences louise.horsfall@ed.ac.uk Industrial Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, biomanufacturing, resource efficiency, bioremediation, biomass degradation, novel enzymes, nanoparticles
Dr Tilo Kunath Chancellor's Fellow, Centre for Regenerative Medicine Tilo.Kunath@ed.ac.uk Mechanisms of neurodegeneration, Parkinson's			Prof Gary Loake Professor of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences gloake@ed.ac.uk Mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Dr Alistair McCormick Chancellor's Fellow, School of Biological Sciences alistair.mccormick@ed.ac.uk Plant Synthetic Biology			Dr Filippo Menolascina Chancellor's Fellow Institute of Bioengineering School of Engineering Filippo.Menolascina@ed.ac.uk Specialties: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Control Theory
Prof Andrew Millar Chair of Systems Biology, School of Biological Sciences andrew.millar@ed.ac.uk Systems Biology, Biological Clocks, Modelling, Plant Synthetic Biology			Dr Naomi Nakayama Chancellor's Fellow, School of Biological Sciences naomi.nakayama@ed.ac.uk Plant Synthetic Biology, Biomechanics and synthetic morphology
Dr Luke McNally Chancellor's Fellow, School of Bioogical Sciences Luke.Mcnally@ed.ac.uk Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Modelling			Dr Teuta Pilizota Chancellor's Fellow, School of Biological Sciences teuta.pilizota@ed.ac.uk Microscopy, BioPhysics, Bacterial stress response, bacterial physiology
Dr Steve Pollard Reader, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine steven.pollard@ed.ac.uk Stem Cell Biology			Dr Nikola Popovic Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics Nikola.Popovic@ed.ac.uk Modelling, Multi-scale dynamics, Dynamical Systems
Dr Leonardo Rios Solis Lecturer in Synthetic Biology and Biochemical Engineering, School of Engineering Leo.Rios@ed.ac.uk Modelling, Multi-scale dynamics, Dynamical Systems			Prof Susan Rosser Chair of Synthetic Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Co Director Edinburgh Genome Foundry susan.rosser@ed.ac.uk Synthetic Biology; bacteria, yeast and mammalian cell systems
Dr Guido Sanguinetti Reader in Machine Learning Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation School of Informatics gsanguin@exseed.ed.ac.uk Modelling			Dr Abdenour Soufi Chancellor’s fellow, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine Abdenour.Soufi@ed.ac.uk Mammalian Synthetic Biology
Dr Adam Stokes Lecturer, Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems,School of Engineering Adam.Stokes@ed.ac.uk Microfabrication, Sensor Networks, Stretchable and Flexible Electronic Systems, Bioinspired Soft Robotics and Embodied Simulations.			Prof Peter Swain SULSA Chair of Systems Biology, School of Biological Sciences peter.swain@ed.ac.uk Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Budding Yeast, Modelling, Microscopy, Signal transduction
Dr Tom Thorne Chancellor's Fellow , School of Informatics applications of statistical methodologies to problems in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics			Prof Joyce Tait Director Innogen Institute joyce.tait@ed.ac.uk Governance & Regulation, regenerative medicine, drug development, advanced plat biotechnology, Innovation strategies, stakeholder engagement
Dr Niki Vermeulen Lecturer in history/sociology of science Science Technology and Innovation Studies, School of Social and Political Science niki.vermeulen@ed.ac.uk Systems Biology, Science & Innovation policy			Dr Edwrad Wallace Sir Henry dale Fellow School of Biological Sciences Edward.Wallace@ed.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Wallace Lecturer in Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences stephen.wallace@ed.ac.uk biotechnology, synthetic biology, whole-cell biocatalysis, bioconjugation chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry			Dr Bartek Waclaw RSE Research Fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy bwaclaw@staffmail.ed.ac.uk Biophysics
Dr Baojun Wang Chancellor's Fellow, School of Biological Sciences bwang@exseed.ed.ac.uk Synthetic biology and biotechnology: biosensing, bioprocessing and biotherapy