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 NEW BBSRC Funded RA position to work on the project "Visualisation and Analysis of Biological Sequences, Alignments and Structures" - Full advertisement to appear shortly. Strong Java programming skills required.

Starting Date: September 2004.

NEW BBSRC Funded RA position to work on the project "Visualisation and Analysis of Biological Sequences, Alignments and Structures" - Full advertisement to appear shortly. Strong Java/Web Services programming skills required.

Starting Date: September 2004.

NEW BBSRC Funded RA position to work on the Structural Proteomics of Rational Targets project. Details shortly.

NEW BBSRC Funded RA position to work on the Structural Proteomics of Rational Targets project. Details shortly.

Emily Jefferson  - Having completed her first degree in Biochemistry at the University of StAndrews, Emily joined the group in October 2003 on a BBSRC funded studentship.

Greg Machray - After completing his first degree in Biochemistry at the University of Dundee, Greg spent two months in the summer of 2003 with the Group and  started a BBSRC funded Ph.D. project in September jointly supervised by Mike Ferguson.

Diego Miranda-Saavedra - is a Wellcome Trust 4-Year programme Ph.D. student. He joined the Group from September 2003 to complete a Ph.D. over the next three years.

 Tom Walsh - Joined the Group on 1st July 2002 from Dublin to work on the EC funded project TEMBLOR. TEMBLOR is funded by European Community Contract No. QLRI-CT-2001-00015 for "TEMBLOR"  under the specific RTD programme "Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources" (1998-2002).

David Martin   - Is the Post Genomics and Molecular Interactions Centre Bioinformatics Scientific Officer. David graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Kings College London in 1991. He completed a PhD in protein structure/function at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith in Ted Tuddenham's group before taking up an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship in Oslo. An EU TMR fellowship as part of the GeneQuiz project allowed David to develop his bioinformatics skills and he took the position as Head of the Norwegian EMBNet node at the University of Oslo in August 1999. Following his move to Dundee in March 2001 David has a broad responsibility to develop bioinformatics support, training and services for the emerging data intensive science that is going on in the school.  David's scientific interests include distributing applications and 'joined-up bioinformatics' and trying to write documentation for the EMBOSS project. His external interests seem to involve rebuilding cars, houses and boats when he isn't out in the mountains or enjoying family life.  He also plays the clarinet and saxophone but not as well as you'd want to be listening to.

Andy Sanwell   - Is a visitor to the group and is applying his training in computer science to a number of problems.  In particular he has polished the latest version of the STAMP package for protein structure comparison and alignment, and set up STAMP to scan the PDB on our Linux cluster.

Jonathan Barber - joined the group in October 2001 as a BBSRC funded Ph.D. student, after graduating  from Imperial College with a degree in Biotechnology, during which he spent a year working at (the then) GlaxoWellcome looking at medium-throughput  screening.   Disliking the fact that biology practicals never ever work due to the  biology involved, he decided to weather the nondeterminism of computers  instead, where some other poor sod has done all the donkey work, and you get to  sit down more.

When not shackled to his desk, Jon juggles, reads and drinks. Sometimes all  at the same time, with predictably soggy results. Also, he's a fan of the cinema, especially the DCA, which is groovy. At least one evening a week he runs around chasing after a football trying his best to kick the damn thing. Not to be outdone by the other musical virtuosos in the group, he's currently looking for someone in the area to teach  him how to play the flute so he can inflict his ability on other people unlucky  enough to stray within range.

Dundee's fab, honest, come and join us. Although whether you trust a man who  uses the words "fab" and "groovy" is another matter.

Geoff Barton did his first degree in Biochemistry at the University of Manchester. He then did a Ph.D. supervised by Mike Sternberg in the Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London before spending two years as an ICRF Fellow working with Chris Rawlings at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Labs. in London. In 1989 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to work in the Lab of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford. From April 1995 until October 1997, Geoff was also Head of Genome Informatics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.  

From 1st October 1997-July 2001 Geoff was a Research and Development Team Leader at the EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute.  

From 1st January 1998-July 2001 Geoff was also head of the European Macromolecular Structure Database at EBI.  

From 30th March 2001 Geoff has been Professor of Bioinformatics at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.  Geoff moved to Dundee full-time in July 2001 and is now co-director (with Mike Ferguson) of the Post Genomics and Molecular Interactions Centre.

Geoff spends his leisure time working with the Men in Black.