Colleges and Tutors

Not all colleges at Oxford admit students to read biochemistry. The following is a list of colleges admitting biochemists and the Biochemistry tutors for those institutions and their research interests.
To see the full scope of biochemical research going on in Oxford that underpins the undergraduate course visit: www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/research.

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Professor Syma Khalid: The structure-dynamics-function relationships within bacterial cell envelopes

See also: https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/cpt_courses/biochemistry/ 

Assoc. Prof. Faraz Mardakheh: Multi-omic studies of cancer cells
Assoc. Prof. Mark Roberts: Developing biochemical education

See also: https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/course/biochemistry/ 

Professor Penny Handford: Calcium binding epidermal growth factor-like containing proteins in health and disease 

See also: https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/subject/biochemistry/ 

Assoc. Prof. Madhusudhan Srinivasan (Christ Church): Mechanisms of eukariotic chromosome seggregation

See also: https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/college/courses/biochemistry

Professor Lars Jansen: Mechanisms of chromatin inheritance

See also: https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/subjects/undergraduates/biochemistry

Dr Maureen Taylor (Exeter and Imperial College, London): Molecular function of sugar-binding receptors in cellular recognition events 

See also: https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/biochemistry/

Assoc. Prof. Alison Woollard: Molecular mechanisms controlling development and ageing in C. elegans
Professor Petros Ligoxygakis: Drosophila as a model to study innate immunity

See also: https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/subjects/biochemistry/

Dr Mary Board: Metabolic control relating to diabetes/obesity

See also: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-courses/biochemistry-molecular-cellular

Professor Benoît Kornmann: Ultrastructural organisation of the cell and the biology of organelles

See also: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/course/biochemistry-molecular-and-cellular/

Assoc. Prof. Jason Schnell: Proteins at the centre of human health and disease

See also: https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/subjects/biochemistry/

Assoc. Prof. Rachael Bashford-Rogers: From adaptive immunity to clinical translation
Professor Phil Biggin: Computational approaches to receptor dynamics and ligand binding

See also: https://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/courses/biochemistry-molecular-and-cellular

Assoc. Prof. Peter Sarkies: Epigenetics and evolution
Assoc. Prof. Anthony Roberts: Motor Proteins and intracellular organisation
Assoc. Prof. Mark Roberts: Developing biochemical education

See also: https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-courses/biochemistry/

Professor Rob Gilbert (Magdalen College and Nuffield Department of Medicine): Cell signalling, adhesion and pore formation in human disease

See also: https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/considering-magdalen/undergraduate-study/courses/biochemistry/

Assoc. Prof. Lindsay Baker: Building up complexity within situ structural biology

See also: https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/subjects/biochemistry

Assoc. Prof. Stephan Uphoff: Bacterial DNA repair and mutagenesis

See also: https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/biochemistry

Assoc. Prof. Lynne Cox: Cellular senescence and ageing

See also: https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/course/biochemistry/

Assoc. Prof. André Furger: Control of gene expression in eukaryotes

See also: https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/course/biochemistry

Professor Nick Lakin: Maintenance of genome integrity and DNA repair

See also: https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-courses/biochemistry

Professor Jane Mellor: Chromatin remodelling and gene regulation in simple eukaryotes

See also: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/subjects/biochemistry/

Professor Elena Seiradake: Molecular biology of the nervous and vascular systems

See also: https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/course/biochemistry/

Assoc. Prof. Tobias Warnecke: Evolution of molecular systems

See also: https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/subject/biochemistry

Assoc. Prof. Catherine Pears: Cell signalling

See also: https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/courses/biochemistry/

Professor Ben Berks FRS: Protein Transport; Molecular Microbiology; Membrane Proteins; Molecular Machines

See also: https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/prospective-undergraduates/undergraduate-courses/biochemistry

Assoc. Prof. Weston Struwe: Understanding mechanisms of host-virus interactions across molecular scales

https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduates/courses/biochemistry