Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression

Principal Investigators

	Professor Julian Blow FRSE FMedSci Professor of Chromosome Maintenance and Interim Vice-Principal (Academic Planning & Performance) How DNA replication is organised and controlled to ensure precise chromosome duplication
	Professor Victoria Cowling FRSE FRSB Professor of Biology, Lister Institute Fellow, MRC Senior Fellow and Deputy-Head of The Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression mRNA cap regulation
	Professor Anton Gartner Professor of Genetics C. elegans genetics as a model to study basic biological problems
	Professor Ron Hay FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Molecular Biology Role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in transcriptional regulation
	Professor Angus Lamond FRS FRSE FMedSci Professor of Biochemistry Nuclear structure proteomics and gene expression
	Professor Tom Owen-Hughes FRSE Professor of Chromatin Structure and Function, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Chromatin structure and gene regulation
	Dr. Federico Pelisch MRC Career Development Fellow
	Professor Mike Stark FRSB Emeritus Professor of Yeast Molecular Biology Regulation of Yeast Cell Growth and Division
	Professor Jason Swedlow FRSE Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology Mitotic chromosome dynamics
	Professor Tomo Tanaka FRSE Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Mechanisms ensuring proper chromosome segregation in mitosis
	Dr Joost Zomerdijk Reader in Gene Regulation and Expression and Programme Lead for MSc Biomedical and Molecular Sciences programmes Molecular mechanisms and control in transcription by RNA polymerase I
	Dr. Constance Alabert Principal Investigator DNA replication in the context of chromatin – Implications for human diseases
	Dr Tony Ly Principal Investigator
	Dr Kasper Rasmussen Principal Investigator Investigating the regulation and function of DNA methylation in hematopoiesis

Associates

	Professor Geoff Barton FRSE FRSB Professor of Bioinformatics Protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis and function prediction
	Dr. Gabriele Schweikert Principal Investigator Computational Biology
	Professor Gordon Simpson FRSB Professor of Molecular Genetics and Deputy Head of Division of Plant Sciences RNA and Development
	Professor Daan van Aalten FRSE Professor of Biological Chemistry The role of the O-GlcNAc posttranslational modification in neurodegeneration
	Dr Stephen Land FRSB CSciTeach FPhysiol Reader and Academic Regional Lead for Middle East and North Africa