Dr Jessica Cross
PhD, PhD, BA, MSci
Expertise
I work at the interface of chemistry, biology and engineering to design and engineer proteins to manipulate cell architecture, seeking to understand intracellular transport and design new protein machines for engineering biology.
Current positions
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow and Senior Research Associate
School of Biochemistry
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Biography
Biology in the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology at the University of Bristol
(2025 – ongoing).
Publications
Recent publications
01/07/2024A de novo designed coiled coil-based switch regulates the microtubule motor kinesin-1
Nature Chemical Biology
Allosteric regulation of a molecular motor through de novo protein design
bioRxiv
Differential sensing with arrays of de novo designed peptide assemblies
Nature Communications
De novo designed peptides for cellular delivery and subcellular localisation
Nature Chemical Biology
Molecular architecture of the autoinhibited kinesin-1 lambda particle
Science Advances
Thesis
Peptide disruptors and facilitators of protein-protein interactions for mediating intracellular transport
Supervisors
Award date
12/05/2022
Related people
Mrs Judith Mantell
Research Associate
Life Sciences Faculty Office
Professor Dek Woolfson
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
School of Chemistry
Dr Tom Williams
Associate Professor in Molecular Evolution
School of Biological Sciences
Professor Mark Dodding
Professor of Molecular Cell Biology
School of Biochemistry
Mr Shivam Shukla
Research Associate
School of Chemistry