Associate members

The MIB has a number of associate members who work closely with colleagues in the MIB

Prof Norman Paton, Computer Science.		Steven Magennis, School of Chemistry
	Norman Paton is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. His research is primarily concentrated in the Information Management Group. Externally, he is a co-chair of the Global Grid Forum and the Database Access and Integration Services Working Group.		Steven Magennis is an EPSRC advanced research fellow and lecturer in the School of Chemistry. His main research interests at present are the development of single molecule spectroscopy and imaging tools to probe the structure, dynamics and reactions of biomolecules. He is based in the Photon Science Institute. He collaborates with a number of researchers in the MIB, including Prof. Nigel Scrutton (single-molecule imaging of biological catalysis) and Dr. Richard Henchman (DNA structure and dynamics).
Prof David Broomhead, Mathematics.		Dr David Brough, Life Sciences.
	David Broomhead is Professor of Applied Mathematics. In 1989 he was awarded the John Benjamin Memorial Prize for his work on radial basis function neural networks. During 1997 he was a Mombusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hiroshima. Broomhead was Coordinator to the Nonlinear Mathematics Initiative of the SERC from 1989 to 1992 and has been a member of EPSRC Peer Review College for the Mathematics Programme since 1995.		David Brough is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow working within the Neuroscience section of the Faculty of Life Sciences. The research of the Brough lab focuses mainly upon mechanisms of inflammation induced by cell death or disease within the brain, but also incorporates peripheral models of infection.
Ben Coe, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Sch of Chemistry.		Prof Alan Dickson, Life Sciences.
	Ben Coe is a Reader in the School of Chemistry. He specialises in the synthesis of organic dyes and transition metal complexes, with interests primarily in optical and electronic properties. A current collaboration with Prof Nigel Scrutton and Dr Derren Heyes aims to develop new metal-based electron-transfer probes for diflavin reductase enzymes. Ben has been a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College since 1997, and besides science enjoys symphonic metal music, international men's tennis and exotic plants.		Alan Dickson has primary research interests in industrial applications of mammalian cells for protein expression, in particular in relation to upstream aspects, interaction with the culture environment and control of flux form gene to commercial product. Alan is Director of the Centre of Excellence in Biopharmaceuticals (COEBP; http://www.coebp.ls.manchester.ac.uk), a pan-University of Manchester Centre which focuses on aiding and developing the industrial biopharmaceuticals sector (and promotion of the industrial/academic interface)
Simon Hubbard, Life Sciences.		Andy Brasss, Computer Science.
	Simon Hubbard is a Professor of Computational Biology in the Faculty of Life Sciences at Manchester. His research interests cover a broad range of bioinformatics and computational biology, with particular focus on proteomics. In particular he leads the Manchester part of a BBSRC funded programme to quantify the entire proteome of yeast, which is naturally of relevance to the systems biology community which focus on the modelling the metabolism of this famous model eukaryote. Other interests in his group include exploiting proteomics data for genome annotation, proteomics data standards, prediction of peptidase function and translational control of gene expression.
Prof Steve Oliver, University of Cambridge.
	Steve Oliver has led a number of major national and European research consortia, and is an advisor to scientific foundations in Brazil, Canada, Finland, and Ireland. He is currently the Chair of the ‘Molecules, Genes, and Cells’ Grant Committee of the Wellcome Trust. Steve’s research has been recognised by awards and prizes from the Institute of Biology, the Society for General Microbiology, and the Biochemical Society, as well as by nomination for a World Technology Award.