Centre for Proteome Research

Applying proteomics to biological questions

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I started my scientific training as an undergraduate at UMIST reading biochemistry. Towards the end of my degree I was attracted by bioinformatics so I enrolled in the UMIST MSc Computation course and completed a summer research project which used text mining to investigate gene promoter sequences. Towards the end of this project I was offered a PhD opportunity in the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry under the supervision of Prof S. Hubbard and Prof. S. Gaskell. This PhD project was split between lab biology and bioinformatics and served as my introduction to proteomics. The main goal of the project was to use chemical crosslinkers to study protein-protein interactions. This project focused on the characterization of modified proteins and peptides by mass spectrometry and on the software to identify modifications. The project produced software that could identify crosslinked species and produced proof of principle data by mapping the subunit interface of some homodimeric test proteins.
Postdoctoral fellows
  • Dr Philip Brownridge
  • Dr Dean Hammond
  • Dr Stephen Holman
  • Dr Guadalupe Gomez Baena
  • Dr Rebecca Miller
  • Dr Deborah Simpson
  • Dr Matthias Vonderach

Research Staff
  • Ms Victoria Harman
  • Mrs Lynn McLean
  • Mr Mark Prescott

PhD students
  • Ms Helen Bayram (BBSRC, jointly with MBE)
  • Mr Richard Bennett (BBSRC Industrial CASE Award, Badrilla)
  • Ms Amy Campbell (??)
  • Ms Samantha Ferries (??)
  • Ms Gemma Hardman (??)
  • Ms Victoria Lee (BBSRC CASE, Waters, jointly with MBE)
  • Ms Rebecca Pattison (BBSRC iCASE with Avacta)

MRes and MSc students
  • Ms Grace Loxley (Rob Beynon, sup)
  • Ms Karen Sanders (Rob Beynon, sup)
  • Ms Paulina Cruz Rodriguez (Claire Eyers, sup)

Undergraduate students
  • Ms Dawn Wright (Claire Eyers, sup)
  • Xin Gao (Claire Eyers, sup)

Visitors, Collaborators and Associates
  • Dr Emoke Bendixen, Aarhus University
  • Dr Jessica Pearson, Archaeology, Liverpool
  • Prof Enitan Carroll, Alder Hey
  • Dr Chris Holmberg, Institute of Translational Medicine
  • Prof Simon Hubbard, University of Manchester
  • Prof Jane Hurst, Institute of Integrative Biology
  • Dr Paula Stockley, Institute of Integrative Biology
  • Dr Jim Langridge ,Waters, (Honorary University position)
  • Professor Lu-yun Lian, University of Liverpool
  • Professor John McCarthy, University of Manchester
  • Professor Peipei Ping, UCLA
  • Professor Mike White, University of Manchester
  • Victoria Harman
  • Lynn McLean
  • Mark Prescott