Investigators

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Each and every one of our investigators is committed to advancing high-tech omics approaches and their application to biological and medical questions.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Julie Aspden" social="twitter| twitter.com/@RNA_Julie" image="13"]Dr Julie Aspden (Steering Committee for Leeds Omics). Julie is interested in RNA processing events of post-transcriptional gene regulation and uses RNAseq approaches (ribosome profiling, RNAseq, CLIP-seq). Aspden Research Group[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Niamh Forde" social="twitter| twitter.com/@niamhforde " image="12"]Dr Niamh Forde (Steering committee for Leeds Omics). Dr Forde's group investigate the molecular mechanisms required for establishing and maintaining a successful pregnancy.[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor Colin A Johnson" social="" image="1481"]My research uses functional genomics and transcriptomics to investigate the roles of primary cilia in health and disease. Currently, my group is investigating the links between primary cilia, pre-mRNA splicing factors and inherited retinal disorders using cellular model systems. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Ian Carr" social="" image="44"]Dr Ian Carr is a medical bioinformatician and the academic lead at the Next Generation Sequencing facility - a partnership between University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching hospitals. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor Jenny Barrett" social="" image="148"]I am a biostatistician with research interests primarily in the analysis of genetic/genomic data in relation to disease risk, outcome and response to treatment, working mainly in cancer and musculoskeletal disease. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor David J Beech" social="" image="254"]Calcium entry and non-selective cationic channels in vascular physiology and disease. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Amanda Bretman" social="" image="21"]Dr Bretman's group work on the area of behavioural ecology from a molecular perspective incorporating transcriptomic approaches to address fundamental questions about sexual selection. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Suparna Mitra" social="linkedin|https://sg.linkedin.com/pub/dr-suparna-mitra/29/43a/156" image="1141"]Dr Suparna Mitra is a University Academic Fellow in Gastrointestinal Research including Bioinformatics. She works within the Healthcare Associated Infection Research Group, using bioinformatics approaches to understand microbiome sequencing samples.[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Caroline Chilton" social="" image="1553"]Caroline is a microbiologist who’s research focuses on Healthcare Associated Infections.? She is particularly interested in the use of omics technologies to investigate the composition and function of the gut microbiota, how the microbiota interacts with potential pathogens, and how these interactions are influenced by antibiotic exposure. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Richard Cubbon" social="" image="178"]My group is interested in understanding how diabetes and pre diabetes cause vascular disease and interfere with endogenous vascular regeneration. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor Jim Deuchars" social="" image="276"]

[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Elizabeth Duncan " social="" image="15"]My reseach interests are evolution of eusociality, phenotypic plasticity, invertebrate developmental biology, evolution of developmental pathways, genome architecture and evolution. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Simon Goodman" social="" image="19"]Dr Goodman's group use genomic and transcriptomic technologies to investigate how patterns of genetic variation relate to disease susceptibility, and the mechanisms by which disease acts as major conservation threat. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Mark Iles" social="" image="16"]The epidemiological analysis of population-based omics data to understand disease aetiology, disease progression and treatment response. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr J. Bernadette Moore" social="twitter| twitter.com/TheMooreLAb" image="242"]Application of proteomic and systems biology approaches to understanding fatty liver disease, obesity and other questions within the Nutritional Sciences. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor Ian Hope" social="" image="653"]Prof. Hope (Head of School of Biology) works on developmental gene expression pattern genomics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Prof. Hope's Group[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor David Westhead" social="" image="14"]We analyse omics data to gain understanding of biological mechanisms with applications in cancer classification. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Andrew Cuming" social="" image="606"]Interested in: (i) The evolution of gene function and adaptations to colonisation of terrestrial habitats; (ii) Molecular mechanisms underpinning homology-dependent transgene integration (“gene targeting”) in P. patens Dr Cuming's Group[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor Kenny McDowall" social="" image="514"]Studies the biological significance of structure-function studies on the machinery of gene expression, identifying new phenomena within bacterial systems renowned for benefiting human health and wellbeing. Prof. McDowall's Group[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor Adrian Whitehouse" social="" image="17"]Omic approaches to globally identify how human tumour viruses affect the host cell environment. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Ian Wood" social="twitter|https://twitter.com/Neuralator" image="184"]Epigenetic modifications and the regulation of gene expression in chronic disease states. Full profile, Neur@l: Neuroscience Research at leeds[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Paolo Actis" social="" image="706"]Dr Actis is a University Academic Fellow in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. His group aims to develop an electrical nanobiopsy platform capable of extracting genetic material and organelles from single living cells. Full profile here.[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Lucy Stead" social="twitter| twitter.com/LucyFStead" image="22"]Dr Stead's group investigates intratumour heterogeneity in GBM; specifically testing whether treatment-resistant subclones emerge in recurrent tumours, and characterising them in clinically relevant ways in multiple patients. Dr Stead's Group.[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Arief Gusnanto" social="" image="649"]My research interest is in the development of statistical methods and inference in the analysis of omics data. Dr Gustnanto's website.[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Susan A. Deuchars" social="" image="713"]

[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Andrew Tuplin" social="" image="717"]

[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Christopher Hassall" social="twitter| twitter.com/katatrepsis" image="683"]Dr Hassall’s research group studies a wide range of ecological and evolutionary phenomena including ageing, camouflage, mimicry, dispersal, thermal biology, urbanisation, and climate change, using molecular, lab, and field study systems. Leeds Profile.[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor Glenn McConkey" social="" image="676"]Prof. Mc Conkey researches physiological changes caused by environmental factors (protozoan parasites) in disease using genomic metabolic networks, genomic data, software design and epigenomics. Prof. Mc Conkey's Group.[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Reuben Tooze" social="" image="715"]

[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Henry Greathead" social="" image="695"]Dr Greathead's research is in the study of rumen microbiome of cattle and the digestion of high fibre diets. Full profile.[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Professor Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat" social="" image="698"]Professor of Data Analytics and Statistics at Leeds, interested in the development of methodology for integrated analysis of multiple omics datasets and joint modelling of one type of omics data from different platforms (harmonization). Professor Houwing-Duistermaat's Group. [/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr. Patricija van Oosten-Hawle" social="http://www.vanoostenhawlelab.com/" image="761"]

[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Megan Wright" social="https://physicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/staff/215/dr-megan-wright" image="1383"]Dr Megan Wright is a chemical biologist developing and applying chemical tools in combination with proteomics to interrogate protein function and modification in live cells. Profile link.[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Stefan Kepinski" social="" image="1559"]Stefan is a plant biologist working on the regulation of plant development by the hormone auxin. Projects range from the structural biology of auxin perception to the molecular and genetic basis of root and shoot architectural control. His interest in omics technologies are principally in whole genome resequencing for the identification of causal mutations from forward genetic screens and in single cell/cell-type-specific RNA Seq. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"]

[member name="Dr Ryan F. Seipke" social="" image="1901"]Dr. Seipke’s group works on the genetics, genomics and biochemistry of microbial natural products biosynthesis. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][member name="Dr Viktor Lukacs" social="" image="45"]Dr. Lukacs' lab is interested in the molecular underpinning of somatosensation. His research focuses on new techniques in functional genomics (including tools of genome-editing such as CRISPR) to identify new receptors and regulatory proteins in the pain pathway. Full profile[/member][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"]