Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Group membership

Group Lead: Professor Jonathan Heddle

Area of Research: Biological Nanomachines

Deputy Lead: Dr Ulrike Bechtold

Area of Expertise: Understanding plant stress responses

Deputy Lead (PGR): Dr Jose Munoz

Area of Research: Structural Biology

Dr Adam Bentham

Area of Research: AI-based protein design to bioengineer novel plant-microbe interactions

Dr Stephen Chivasa

Area of Research: Plant Molecular Biology & Algal Biology

Dr Peter Chivers

Area of Research: Bacterial metal homeostasis

Dr Jungnam Cho

Area of Research: Plant genome dynamics

Professor Elaine Fitches

Area of Research: Insect Biotechnology

Professor Patrick Hussey

Area of Research: The Plant Cytoskeleton

Professor Marc Knight

Area of Research: Stress Signalling in Plants

Professor Keith Lindsey

Area of Research: Plant Developmental Biology

Dr Junli Liu

Area of Research: Systems Biology

Dr Miguel de Lucas

Area of Research: Chromatin dynamics & plant development

Professor Stefan Przyborski

Area of Research: Advanced Tissue Technologies

Professor Ari Sadanandom

Area of Research: Plant Pathology

Facility and Technical Staff

Proteomics Facility

Dr Adrian Brown - Experimental Officer

Mammalian Cell Culture Facility

Dr Nicola Fullard - Experimental Officer - Animal Cell Tech

Bioimaging Facility

Dr Tim Hawkins - Head of Bioimaging

Lydia Kitchen - Advanced Technician

Johan Kroon - Senior Experimental Officer

Centre for Programmable Biological Matter

Dr Lucy Epton - Lab Manager

Dr Abbie Kelly - Technical Manager

Invertebrates Facility

Gillian Summerill - Technical Manager

Bioinformatics Facility

Dr Wenbin Wei - Experimental Officer

Plant Growth Facility

Helen Martin - Facility Manager