Our team

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 ...

Paul Badenhorst is an Associate Professor in the Department 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 ...

(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 Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham. He is also the Deputy Director of the Birmingham Experimental Cancer ...

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 ...

My name is Constanze Bonifer, I am Emeritus Professor of Experimental Haematology in the Department 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 ...

I am a Reader in RNA biology. My group's research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that connect pre-mRNA processing with translation and Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay (NMD). A second interest of the laboratory is understanding the functions of ribosomes and ribosomal proteins within the nucleus.

Lab page:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brognalab/646045552079820

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.

Peter is an Emeritus Professor of Cytokine Gene Regulation within the Department 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 ...

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.

Mathew Coleman is Head of the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences.  He is a a Professor in Tumour Cell Biology where his research focusses on the role of protein hydroxylation in the cell biology of tumour cells. He is also Theme Lead for Translational Biology and Genetics.

Mathew has attracted highly competitive funding support from Cancer Research UK, the MRC, BBSRC and Glaxo ...