Theme Lead - Professor Chris Willis

Chemical Biology – the application of chemistry to the study and manipulation of biological systems.

Synthetic Biology – the design and construction of artificial biological pathways, organisms or devices, or the redesign of existing natural biological systems.

We combine outstanding capabilities in computational, synthetic, analytical and biophysical chemistry to address key problems in the study of biological systems, and to design and construct new biological systems of fundamental importance and potential application in materials and healthcare.

Our expertise ranges from bioinformatics, protein design and folding, bionanotechnology, the application of NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography and computation to understand protein structure and function, to the synthesis of probes to elucidate biosynthetic pathways.

Theme Members:

• Dr Chris Arthur
• Professor Imre Berger
• Professor Wuge Briscoe
• Professor Craig Butts
• Professor Jonathan Clayden
• Dr John Crosby
• Professor Matt Crump 
• Professor Tony Davis
• Professor Carmen Galan
• Dr Mei Li
• Professor Stephen Mann
• Professor Adrian Mulholland 
• Professor Emma Raven
• Professor Jonathan Reid
  
• Professor Dek Woolfson 
• Dr Fabio Parmeggiani