Our team

Dr Ildem Akerman

Dr Ildem Akerman

Diabetes UK RD Lawrence Fellow
Associate Professor in Functional Genomics

Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research

Dr Akerman is interested in answering fundamental questions about gene regulation in diseased and healthy pancreatic beta cells through integrated use of molecular, genomic, computational and systems biology. Her team aims to understand how various types of noncoding DNA elements interact to establish gene expression in the pancreatic beta cell. With the support of Diabetes UK, Akerman lab has ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6857
Email
i.akerman@bham.ac.uk

Dr Paul Badenhorst

Dr Paul Badenhorst

Associate Professor

Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Paul Badenhorst is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences.

Paul’s field of expertise is in Epigenetics and Development. Paul uses both the Drosophila model system and human cells to investigate how chromatin modifying complexes regulate gene expression to control developmental pathways. He has received major grant funding from Cancer Research UK, the ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6810
Email
p.w.badenhorst@bham.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Beggs

Professor Andrew Beggs

Professor of Cancer Genetics & Surgery
Deputy Director – Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre

Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

(For clinical referrals please use this address:  Department of Colorectal Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2GW)

Andrew Beggs is a Professor of Cancer Genetics & Surgery in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham. He is also the Deputy Director of the Birmingham Experimental Cancer ...

Email
a.beggs@bham.ac.uk

Professor Roy Bicknell

Professor Roy Bicknell

Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences
Professor of Functional Genomics

Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences

Roy Bicknell originally read chemistry at St. John's College, University of Oxford before studying for a doctorate in The William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford as an E.P.Abraham scholar. He then won a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship to study at Harvard Medical School. His original research interest was bacterial resistance to antibiotics but at Harvard moved to growth and angiogenic ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 4085
Email
r.bicknell@bham.ac.uk

Professor Constanze Bonifer

Professor Constanze Bonifer

Emeritus Professor of Experimental Haematology

Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

My name is Constanze Bonifer, I am Emeritus Professor of Experimental Haematology in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences  and I am an Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Our lab worked on gene regulation in the hematopoietic system. We studied how transcription factors and chromatin components drive differential gene expression during blood cell ...

Email
c.bonifer@bham.ac.uk

Professor Steve Busby

Professor Steve Busby

Professor of Biochemistry

School of Biosciences

Research in Steve Busby’s lab is concerned with understanding the molecular mechanisms that control gene expression in bacteria, with particular attention to studying the regulation of transcription initiation in Escherichia coli. Much of the recent work has focussed on the expression of virulence determinants in pathogenic strains.

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5439
Email
s.j.w.busby@bham.ac.uk

Professor Jean-Baptiste Cazier

Professor Jean-Baptiste Cazier

Chair of Bioinformatics
Programme Director, Online MSc in Bioinformatics

Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Jean-Baptiste Cazier is a Professor of Bioinformatics with interest across the broad spectrum of Computational and Mathematical modelling of natural phenomena.

He has three main area of interest: Cancer Genetics, Population Genetics, Swarming and Metabonomics.

His life-long goal is to integrate all his eclectic, and ever expending, fields of interest.

Jean-Baptiste was part of a team of ...

Telephone
+44(0)1214146480
Email
j.cazier@bham.ac.uk

Professor Peter Cockerill

Professor Peter Cockerill

Emeritus Professor of Cytokine Gene Regulation

Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Peter is an Emeritus Professor of Cytokine Gene Regulation within the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences.

He retired at the end of 2023 after working for 13 years at the University of Birmingham.

He maintains an interest in gene regulation in blood cells but no longer teaches or supervises research.

He has spent his career engaged in research using chromatin structure analysis as a ...

Email
p.n.cockerill@bham.ac.uk

Professor John Kenneth Colbourne

Professor John Kenneth Colbourne

Professor, Chair of Environmental Genomics
Director, Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)

School of Biosciences

John Colbourne’s investigations encompass the fields of evolutionary ecology, high-throughput biology, environmental and functional genomics. From this blend of disciplines emerges a research program that centers on connecting gene expression and genome structure with individual fitness and population-level responses to environmental challenges.

John is the Director of the Centre for ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5423
Email
j.k.colbourne@bham.ac.uk