Honorary staff 

Honorary staff and Emeritus Professors within the School of Biosciences

Dr Manuel Banzhaf

Dr Manuel Banzhaf

Birmingham Fellow

School of Biosciences

Manuel works as a group leader in the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham. His research explores the use of high-throughput approaches to phenotype pathogens. Those methods allow him to study a) the bacterial cell envelope, a cellular compartment harbouring many determinants and processes related to antimicrobial resistance; b) how differences in DNA ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 41 45586
Email
m.banzhaf@bham.ac.uk

Professor Jim Callow

Professor Jim Callow

Emeritus Professor of Botany

School of Biosciences

Professor Callow is a leading international authority on the study of marine algae, with a focus on bioadhesion (how algal cells interact with and adhere to surfaces). In recent years the emphasis has been on interdisciplinary, collaborative investigations into the interactions between algal cells and micro/nanostructured materials, including those with 'biomimetic' implications, an area which ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 41 45559
Email
j.a.callow@bham.ac.uk

Dr Maureen Callow

Dr Maureen Callow

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

School of Biosciences

Maureen Callow is a leading expert in the area of biofouling (deterioration of artificial surfaces through the attachment of organisms), in particular fouling of ships’ hulls by algae. In recent years, research has focussed on understanding the processes of settlement and adhesion of algal cells to environmentally benign antifouling coatings, through collaborations with chemists and surface ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 41 45579
Email
m.e.callow@bham.ac.uk

Professor Jeff Cole

Professor Jeff Cole

Emeritus Professor of Microbiology

School of Biosciences

Professor Cole is a microbial physiologist interested in how bacteria adapt to oxygen starvation or excess.  Recent work has focused on how enteric bacteria protect themselves against nitric oxide generated either by other bacteria, or as a protection mechanism of their mammalian hosts.  He currently collaborates with Dr. Amanda Rossiter on projects that include how bacteria survive the ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 41 45440
Email
j.a.cole@bham.ac.uk

Professor Chris Franklin

Professor Chris Franklin

Emeritus Professor of Plant Molecular Biology

School of Biosciences

Chris Franklin is a leading expert on meiosis in plants. Work in his laboratory has made a major contribution to the understanding of how meiotic recombination is controlled in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. This knowledge is currently being transferred to crop species where the ability to modify genetic recombination will help plant breeders develop the new varieties that will be needed ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2500
Email
f.c.h.franklin@bham.ac.uk

Professor Noni Franklin-Tong

Professor Noni Franklin-Tong

Emeritus Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Research Fellow

School of Biosciences

Noni Franklin-Tong’s research focuses on the cellular mechanisms involved in the model cell-cell recognition system of self-incompatibility (SI) in Papaver rhoeas (the Field Poppy). She is recognized at an international level for her work elucidating the cellular mechanisms responsible for regulating the rejection of “self” pollen.

Sexual reproduction in higher plants ...

Email
v.e.franklin-tong@bham.ac.uk

Professor Laura Green OBE

Professor Laura Green OBE

Honorary Professor

School of Biosciences

Laura is a veterinary epidemiologist specialising in infectious and non-infectious diseases of livestock. Her most notable research is on footrot, a complex bacterial disease, that causes poor welfare and production losses in sheep. Working with multidisciplinary teams, she has changed understanding of the aetiology and control of footrot and has reduced the prevalence of disease by 50%, ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3615
Email
l.e.green.1@bham.ac.uk

Prof Peter Lund

Prof Peter Lund

Emeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology

School of Biosciences

Peter Lund is a molecular microbiologist with particular research interests in how bacteria respond to different stresses in their environment.  These are studied with a range of genetic and biochemical tools including high throughput methods.  He is currently retired from teaching and administration but runs an active research programme funded by BBSRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the ...

Email
p.a.lund@bham.ac.uk

Professor Graham Martin

Professor Graham Martin

Emeritus Professor, Avian Sensory Science

School of Biosciences

Professor Graham Martin is an Ornithologist with an international reputation built upon his research into the sensory worlds of birds. In recent years he has used his expertise to focus on problems concerned with the functions of vision, especially binocular vision, in foraging behaviour, and in understanding why some bird species are particularly vulnerable to collisions with human artefacts, ...

Telephone
+44 (0)1386 859253
Email
g.r.martin@bham.ac.uk

Dr Francesco Michelangeli

Dr Francesco Michelangeli

Honorary Senior Lecturer

School of Biosciences

Francesco (Frank) Michelangeli was until recently a senior lecturer and Head of Biochemistry programmes within the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham. He is now Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Chester. Frank gained his PhD from the University of Southampton, under the supervision of Professor A.G. Lee. He was subsequently awarded a NATO fellowship to undertake ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 41 45398
Email
f.michelangeli@bham.ac.uk

Professor R.H. (Bob) Michell

Professor R.H. (Bob) Michell

Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry
formerly Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Birmingham

School of Biosciences

Since the 1960s Bob Michell has been one of the pioneers in revealing the diverse biological functions of inositol lipids in eukaryote cells, with major roles in establishing: a) that receptor-controlled phospholipase C hydrolysis of PtdIns(4,5)P2 is a signalling reaction; and b) that PtdIns(3,5)P2 is a endolysosomal regulator of intracellular trafficking processes. His main current interest is ...

Telephone
+44 (0)741 1792640
Email
r.h.michell@bham.ac.uk