Teaching and admin at Sussex
Roles:
Subject Chair for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Programme Convenor for Molecular Medicine
Course convenor for Essential Skills in Biomedical Science
Course convenor for Human Body
Course convenor for Post-Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression
Biography:
2010-present; Professor of Signal Transduction, University of Sussex.
2005-2010; Reader in Biochemistry, University of Sussex.
1995-2005; Senior Research Fellow of The Wellcome Trust, in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Sussex.
1992-1995; Senior Research Faculty sponsored by a project grant from The Wellcome Trust, in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Sussex.
1990-1992; Postdoctoral research worker in the laboratory of Dr. George Thomas, Friedrich Miescher-Institut, Basel, Switzerland.
1987-1990; Postdoctoral research worker under the sponsorship of Dr. Jolinda Traugh, Department of Biochemistry, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, U.S.A.
1984-1987; Postdoctoral research worker under the sponsorship of Dr. John W.B. Hershey, Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, U.S.A.
1981-1984; Ph.D. in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, England under the supervision of Dr. Richard Jackson and Dr.Tim Hunt.
1978-1981; 1st class B.Sc.(Hons) in the Department of Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex.
Community and business:
Professional affiliations
Member of The Biochemical Society.
Member of The RNA Society.
Member of the American Society for Microbiology.
Editorial affiliations
Editorial Advisor for The Biochemical Journal.
Editorial Advisor for FEBS Journal.
Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Grant panel membership and external examining
Member for the Biosciences Panel for the Science Academy of Finland (2005-).
Member of the Genes Theme Panel I for the Biochemical Society (2007-).
Core member of BBSRC grant review Panel D (2009-)
Member of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche grant review EQUIPEX committee (2010-).
External examiner for the Genes and Gene Expression course, Molecular and Metabolic Signalling Centre, St George's University of London, London (2009-).
External examiner for Molecular Cell Biology, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (2010-).
Teaching:
- Cell Regulation and Cancer
- Essential Skills in Biomedical Science
- Post-Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression
- Energy and Life
- Clinical Aspects of Biochemistry
- Advanced Methods in Molecular Research
- Critical Reasoning in Biochemistry
- Cell Signalling and Therapeutics
