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Em P Mark Caddick BSc. PhD.

Professor Biochemistry, Cell and Systems Biology

    Research

    Research Interest 1

    Genetic and molecular analysis of gene regulation and signaling. Currently we are utilising both proteomics and transcriptomics to investigate regulatory mechanisms in eukaryotes, using Aspergillus nidulans, which is a well developed model system.

    Research Grants

    Characterisation and Manipulation of MEL production

    CRODA (UK)

    September 2015 - October 2016

    Developing of understanding of the genetic elements for biosurfactant production by a basidiomycete yeast

    CRODA (UK)

    February 2015 - August 2015

    2014 allocation - Wellcome ISSF non clinical fellowships

    WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

    May 2015 - October 2018

    Exploring the self-assembly and heterologous engineering of bacterial CO2-fixing machinery

    LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

    October 2016 - September 2019

    Control of Hyphal Gowth

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    July 2016 - June 2019

    Prioritised expression of stress-related proteins in environmental thermoadaptive responses of animals

    NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

    January 2016 - December 2019

    Sensing and the biological response in plants (SENSIBLE).

    EUROPEAN COMMISSION

    April 2006 - March 2010

    Characterising the molecular basis of cell proliferation in plants and its potential for manipulating plant growth and development.

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    November 1998 - June 2003

    YEAR 1 (part2) Wellcome Trust ISSF Non-Clinical Fellowships

    WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

    October 2012 - March 2023

    CIC BioGUNE studentships

    CIC BIOGUNE (SPAIN)

    October 2013 - September 2017

    Glasshouse facilities for plant based research at the University of Liverpool.

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    October 2002 - November 2004

    Regulated Transcript Stability

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    July 2007 - June 2010

    Exploring the transcriptome of Aspergillums nidulans

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    July 2010 - December 2013

    Co-ordination of nitrate and nitrogen metabolite signalling at the level of transcript stability.

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    April 2001 - April 2004

    Proteomic lead analysis of nitrogen regulation and signalling in aspergillus nidulans.

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    November 2003 - October 2006

    Tools for motif recognition in fungi

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    April 2009 - July 2010

    Regulating nitrogen metabolism in Aspergillus?proteomes, transcriptomes and RNA stability.

    ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

    November 2006

    Genomically-integrated responses in environmental stress adaptation in teleost fish.

    NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

    May 2000 - October 2005

    Liverpool GeneMill

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    September 2014 - September 2015

    Research Collaborations

    Steven Roberts

    External: The University of Lancaster

    Fungal molecular biology - ion transporters

    Neil Hall

    Internal

    BBSRC grant - A. nidulans transcriptome sequencing

    Prudence Wong

    Internal

    identification of motifs involved in gene regulation.