About Me
Where I am at and where I have been:
I am currently a post-doc in Steven Brenner's group at U.C. Berkeley.I carried out my Ph.D. in Cyrus Chothia's group at the MRC-LMB and the University of Cambridge where I was a member of Queens' College in the U.K.
I obtained my undergraduate degree (B(Sc) hons in Genetics) at The University of Manchester.
Click here for a reasonably recent CV.
Other Stuff About Me
Current Research:
Structure, sequence, function and phylogenetic analyses of the Nudix proteins: details.
Investigation of the Intra-family relationships within SCOP: details.
In general I am interested in relationships between sequence and structure - in particular between homolgous proteins that have low sequence identity. These proteins raise the question as to why and how their structure has been conserved despite high sequence divergence?
We now have a wealth of sequence and structure data thanks to genome sequencing and structral genomics initiatives. My work aims at starting to bring together data from these resources and analyse protein families to levels that were not feasible before the availability of such quantities of data.