People

Principal Investigator				Area(s) of Interest
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
Prof Adrian Bird Buchanan Professor of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences a.bird@ed.ac.uk				Epigenetics, neurodevelopmental disorders
Dr Patrick Cai Chancellor's Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Co Director, Edinburgh Genome Foundry yizhi.cai@ed.ac.uk				Budding Yeast, DNA Assembly
Dr Jane Calvert Reader in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies jane.calvert@ed.ac.uk				Synthetic Biology, Synthetic Aesthetics, Social Dimensions
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 Jamie Davies Professor of Experimental Anatomy, Centre for Integrative Physiology jamie.davies@ed.ac.uk				Developmental Biology, Tissue Engineering
Prof Vincent Danos Chair of Computational Systems Biology, School of Informatics vdanos@exseed.ed.ac.uk				Modelling
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
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 Thierry Le Bihan Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Proteomics thierry.lebihan@ed.ac.uk				Quantitative proteomics, Bioinformatics, data analysis
Prof Gary Loake Professor of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences gloake@ed.ac.uk				Industrial Biotechnology,
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
Prof Andrew Millar Chair of Systems Biology, School of Biological Sciences andrew.millar@ed.ac.uk				Modelling, Plant Synthetic Biology
Dr Naomi Nakayama Chancellor's Fellow, School of Biological Sciences naomi.nakayama@ed.ac.uk				Plant Synthetic Biology
Dr Luke McNally Chancellor'e Fellow, School of Bioogical Sciences Luke.Mcnally@ed.ac.uk
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
Prof Susan Rosser Chair of Synthetic Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Co Director Edinburgh Genome Foundry susan.rosser@ed.ac.uk				Mammalian Synthetic Biology
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 Centre for Integrative Physiology				Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Modelling
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 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
Dr Baojun Wang Chancellor's Fellow, School of Biological Sciences bwang@exseed.ed.ac.uk				Synthetic biology and biotechnology: biosensing, bioprocessing and biotherapy

Prof Manfred Auer