Diagram represents a network of applications by Institute for Life Sciences Members for collaborative projects.
Institute for Life Sciences

Our people

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Institute for Life Sciences core team

Professor Max Crispin (Director)

Professor Mary Barker (Deputy Director)

Professor Hywel Morgan (Deputy Director)

Doctor Alexandra Mant (Collaboration Manager)

Janette Thompson (Project Manager)

Snita Bansal - Institute Coordinator

 

 

Interested in joining us? Please see details about current academic recruitment opportunities here.

Dr Jessica Nelson PhD

Lecturer in Advanced Cell Models

Research interests

  • Cancer stem cell biology
  • Tissue Repair Mechanisms
  • Pancreatic cancer progression

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Professor Jessica Teeling

Prof of Experimental Neuroimmunology

Research interests

  • Neuroimmunology
  • Systemic inflammation
  • Antibody-mediated immunotherapy

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Professor Jim Anderson BA, PhD, PFHEA

Professor of Mathematics

Research interests

  • Hyperbolic space and its isometries
  • Kleinian groups (discrete groups of isometries of hyperbolic 3-space)
  • Signatures of actions of automorphism groups on Riemann surfaces

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Professor Jo Slater-Jefferies PhD, MBA, CMgr, MCMI

CEO-National Biofilms Innovation Centre
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Professor Joanne Turney

Professor of Fashion and Textiles

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Professor Joerg Wiedenmann

Professor of Biological Oceanography

Research interests

  • Coral Reef Biology and Ecology
  • Coral Bleaching
  • Nutrient biology of coral reefs

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Dr Joern Werner

Reader in Structural Biology
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Professor John Holloway PhD, FHEA, FERS

Associate VP Interdisciplinary Research

Research interests

  • Human genetics
  • Epigenetics
  • Respiratory Disease

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Professor John Mcbeth MA, PhD

Professor

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Professor Jon Dawson

Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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