Biocatalysis

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Oxford

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Our research is driven by a desire to apply chemical principles and techniques to understanding biology. A recent focus of our current work is contributing to a chemical understanding of genetics including how information can be transferred between generations without changes in the 'ATCG' DNA sequence (epigenetics). We have also worked closely with clinical researchers to uncover the mechanism by which humans sense and respond to changes in oxygen levels; this work is important for understanding how tumours grow and how animals adapt to limiting oxygen, e.g. on going to altitude.