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Patrick Audley - Joined the Group on 1st May 2002 as Unix systems administrator and general computing Guru.  Although based in the Group, Patrick has wide responsibility for high performance computing and networking in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre.   While he doesn't always sit on the desk, he finds it helps, sometimes... Patrick has his own extensive web site.

After two years transforming the computing systems in the Faculty of Life Sciences, Patrick has now returned to Canada.

Andreas Schlicker - Was a summer student from the University of Saarbruecken, Germany who worked in the group during August and September 2003.

Susanne Eyrisch - Was a summer student from the University of Saarbruecken, Germany who worked in the group during August and September 2003.  With Andreas, she developed a web interface to the STAMP structural comparison program.

Caleb Webber graduated from the University of Warwick in October 1995 with a degree in Biological Sciences with Molecular Genetics. After a little rest from academia, he started work in the wEST radiation hybrid mapping group, Wellcome Trust Centre For Human Genetics, handling and developing their automated lab systems and bioinformatics. A chance introduction at this seemingly innocent venue led him to sign away the next three years working for a PhD under Geoff's guidance! Arriving at the EBI in December 1998, Caleb is currently examining the usefulness of primary structure comparison tools and hopes very much to head off into the trendy world of comparitive genome research.

Caleb spends all his free time singing and playing in a band called "Halo", described as "local  dance/rock crossover types mixing grungey guitars with house  beats and trip-hop atmospherics" by the music press. You can find out for yourself at www.bosstunes.com.

After successfully defending his Thesis on 1st April 2003, Caleb now works in the Ponting Group at the University of Oxford.

Goulven Kerbellec - Is a computer science summer student from Nantes, France.  He spent three months from 1 June 2002 in the group developing web interfaces to software.  While with us Goulven developed a neat interface to scanps.

Steve Searle :-)  

Steve joined the group in February 1999 from the University of Bath.

In June 2001 Steve moved to a job working on the Ensembl project at the Sanger Institute.

Uwe Dengler :-)  

Uwe joined the group in March 1999.  He worked mainly on the 3Dee domains database and moved on to a job with Novartis in Switzerland in Dec 2000.

James Cuff completed his BSc at Manchester University in June '96, during which a on year placement  was spent at the Company Research Laboratory, BNFL.  Previous research has included work with novel zeolite compounds, pthalocyanines and a final year honours project in protein structure prediction.  James joined the group in Oct. '96 on a joint venture between the MRC, and the OCMS.  He is currenly attempting to survive his PhD in protein structure prediction.  

James has no leisure time as Geoff is always giving him jobs to do :-)  

James successfully defended his  Thesis in March 2000.

After a period working for Inpharmatica, James has now returned to Hinxton and is a Group Leader at the Sanger Institute.

James has now moved on again to the Broad Institute in Boston, USA.

Nirmala :-)  was a sabbatical visitor for 1999 from the company Novartis in the USA. She worked on combining the MAP fold recognition method with NMR
data.  Nirmala returned to the US in January 2000.

Michele Clamp has a first degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and then escaped to Manchester University for a PhD in experimental solid state physics. Another 3 years were blissfully spent in Manchester after transferring to the Biochemistry department for a post-doc developing novel molecular dynamics algorithms with Andy Brass. The return to the South could no longer be avoided when she joined Geoff Barton's group in October 95 ostensibly to work at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. She got her feet under a desk there after a year's wait and worked on the location of genes in genomic human DNA. She moved to the EBI in December 1997 where she worked on the Java multiple alignment analysis tool JalView as well as a CORBA interface to the Pfam alignment database. In January 1999 she moved to the Sanger Centre in order to develop analysis tools for the annotation of the Human Genome where she heads a team on the Ensembl project.  Michele has now moved on again to the Broad Institute in Boston, USA.  What she does in her spare time is her own business but none of it involves throwing herself willy-nilly out of aeroplanes.

G P S Raghava Raghava did his M.Sc in Physics and M.Tech in Computers from IIT Delhi, INDIA. He did his Ph.D. in Computer-Aided Protein Structure Prediction. Presently, he is on leave from his department (Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology Chandigarh, INDIA), where he is working as a scientist. He has joined the group in August, 1996. Raghava returned to his job in India at the end of July 1998.

Richard Copley  Richard completed his first degree in Chemistry, in Oxford in 1993. He did his undergraduate research project Phosphate Binding Sites in Proteins in this group. He started research on an MRC funded studentship in October 1993. His work was on the prediction of protein structure using fold recognition techniques.   In March 1997, Richard moved to SmithKline Beecham at Harlow to work in the Bioinformatics group.  In October 1998, Rich moved on to the Bork group at EMBL Heidelberg.  In July 2002 he moved back to Oxford to head a team at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.

Asim Siddiqui Asim completed his first degree in Physics at Cambridge in 1992. He joined the group in October 1993 on a Science and Engineering Research Council studentship, after working for some time in industry.  Asim is a member of Worcester College MCR.   Asim completed his Thesis on protein structural domains and the 3Dee domains database in April 1997. In May 1997 he moved on to a job in industry in Vancouver, Canada.  In 2003 he returned to academia as a group leader at the Genome Sciences Centre, UBC, Vancouver.

Craig Livingstone  Craig took his first degree in Biochemistry at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He came to Oxford in 1991 to take up a Medical Research Council studentship and completed his D.Phil. Thesis entitled: Pattern recognition and protein structure prediction from aligned amino acid sequences in July 1995.  Craig's main research interests have been in protein secondary structure prediction and conservation analysis of multiple protein sequence alignments. He submitted his D.Phil thesis on 9th June 1995 and is now working at SmithKline Beecham in Harlow, UK. Aside from the research, Craig is(was?) an active member of the Oxford University Gliding Club. He attended the Meeting on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction.   In 2000 Craig moved on from SB to work for Cherwell Scientific.

Rob Russell Rob did his first degree in Chemistry at Queens University, Kingston, Canada. He came to Oxford on a Commonwealth Scholarship in October 1990 and completed his D.Phil. Thesis Computer Analysis of Protein Sequence and Structure in October 1993. He is currently a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Fellow, and From 1 September 1994 has been an ICRF Fellow working with Mike Sternberg at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories, Lincoln's Inn Fields, P.O. Box 123, London, WC2A 3PX. (Fax: 071-269-3417)  Rob now manages the Sternberg Group web pages and has contributed his Guide to Protein Structure Prediction to the WWW.  Rob. moved on again in March 1997. He is now a senior scientist at SmithKline Beecham, Harlow, UK.  In Feb 2001 Rob moved from SB to be a team leader at EMBL Heidelberg. Rob lists his other interests as classified.

Andras Fiser Andras was a visiting student from the Institute of Enzymology in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his university diploma in chemistry from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest in 1991. He was funded in Oxford for 9 months on a George Soros Fellowship (the same who (nearly) broke the bank of England).   Andras enjoys climbing mountains, wine, women and fast cars. Probably. Andras has returned to Hungary, and can be reached at the Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 7, Budapest 1518, Hungary. Andras is currently (1998/99) working with Andrej Sali at the Rockefeller University in New York, USA. In 2002 Andras moved to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York where he is setting up his own lab

Margaret Biswas Visited from Bangalore for 9 months. She heads the Bioinformatics group at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.  In May 1999 Margaret moved to the UK to a job with the Swiss-Prot team at EBI.