Manchester Institute of Biotechnology Home Research Study Connect About Manchester Institute of Biotechnology About People Academic and research staff Manchester Institute of Biotechnology About People Academic and research staff Professional Services staff Affiliate staff Academic and research staff Browse our research staff and discover more about their expertise. Research theme: All Chemicals and materials Food energy and environment Medicine and health Andrew Almond Biophysics, macromolecular dynamics and simulation, computational biology Sophia Ananiadou Biomedical text mining Perdita Barran Ion mobility mass spectrometry, instrument technique development, protein structure and dynamics, disease diagnosis Chris Blanford Enzyme-enhanced materials, bioelectrochemistry, surface engineering Rainer Breitling Metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, systems biology, modelling Mike Buckley Molecular ageing, skeletal biology, proteomics Patrick Cai Synthetic genomics, non-coding RNA engineering, yeast synthetic chromosomes Robin Curtis Biopharmaceuticals, biologicals, protein-protein interactions, protein self-assembly Philip Day Graphene-based wound dressings, quantitative and single-cell molecular biology, enzyme evaluation Sam de Visser Computational chemistry, inorganic reaction mechanisms, enzyme catalysis Daniela Delneri Yeast biotechnology and strain development, experimental evolution, biological systems, environmental genomics Alan Dickson Bioprocessing, biomanufacturing, cell and gene therapy Neil Dixon Biosensors and biocatalysts for the bioeconomy, host engineering for protein production, development of genetic regulation tools Konstantina Drosou Evolutionary biology, ancient DNA, bioinformatics Rob Field - Director Chemical biology, carbohydrates, infectious diseases Sabine Flitsch Chemical biology, biocatalysis, glycoscience Stephen Fowler Breath analysis, asthma, respiratory infection John Gardiner Synthetic carbohydrates, glycosaminoglycans, chemical biology, substrate synthesis Peter Gardner Vibrational spectroscopy, analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, microplastics Alexander Golovanov Protein structure, biopharmaceutical formulations, NMR spectroscopy, biological molecules Sam Hay computation and experimental biophysics, reaction mechanism, catalysis, dynamics, biochemical kinetics Richard Henchman Biomolecular stability, biomolecular flexibility, entropy theories Yi Jin Chemical biology, X-ray crystallography, enzyme catalysis, glycoscience David Leys Enzymology studies, protein engineering, structural biology/X-ray crystallography, redox cofactors Sarah Lovelock Therapeutic oligonucleotides, directed evolution, biocatalysis Jason Micklefield Biosynthesis, pathway engineering, antibiotics, enzyme discovery Aline Miller Self-assembling hydrogels, 3-D cell culture, 3-D bioprinting, drug discovery, drug delivery vehicles, therapeutics Clare Mills Allergies, disease severity, digestion, immune reaction to proteins, sustainable food proteins, climate change, nutrition Andrew Munro Protein design and engineering, structural biology, enzymology, cytochromes P450, redox reactions Andrew Pitt Analytical measurement science, chemical biology, mass spectrometry Paul Popelier Machine learning, force field design, liquid water Alberto Saiani Hydrogel design and characterisation, biomolecular self-assembly, biomedical applications Nigel Scrutton Enzyme and photoreceptor biophysics, synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, energy, chemicals Eriko Takano Secondary metabolite biosynthesis pathway assembly, regulatory circuit engineering, bioinformatics Drupad Trivedi Metabolomics, chemometrics, precision medicine Nicholas Turner Biocatalysis, directed evolution of enzymes, asymmetric synthesis Jonathan Waltho Protein structure, dynamics, enzymes, bioanalytical techniques Jim Warwicker Predictive algorithms, mechanistic models, cell biology, pH-dependence in biology and biotechnology Simon Webb Supramolecular chemistry, biomaterials, liposomes Lu Shin Wong Biocatalysis, biomaterials, nanomaterials Contacts +44 (0) 161 306 5200 Contact details Find us Manchester Institute of Biotechnology The University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN United Kingdom Connect with us Disclaimer Data Protection Copyright notice Web accessibility Freedom of information Charitable status Royal Charter Number: RC000797 Your privacy is important We use cookies on this site to improve your experience, analyse site usage and assist in our marketing efforts. By clicking the accept button you agree to our use of cookies. Accept all cookies Cookies settings