Advisory Board

The Institute's Advisory Board meets annually to discuss high level strategy for the Institute.

• Adriano Henney (formerly of AstraZeneca)
• Alan Ezekowitz (Merk Research Laboratories)
• Peter Hunter (University of Auckland)
• Denis Noble (University of Oxford)
• Pamela Silver (Harvard Medical School)
• Forbes Dewey (MIT)
• Neil Jordan (Microsoft)

Below is a list of key people involved in the work of the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology. You will notice that their work spans the disciplines of systems and synthetic biology, with many individuals having expertise in a number of areas. 

Biotools

• Tim Aitman - genomics
• Tony Cass - proteomics, microarrays
• George Christophides - immunogenomics, transcriptomics
• Anne Dell FRS - glycomics, glycoproteomics
• Tom Ellis - synthetic biology
• Philippe Froguel - genomics
• Elaine Holmes - metabonomics
• Fotis Kafatos ForMemRS - immunogenomics
• Rob Krams - Bioengineering, imaging, synthetic biology, novel high throughput molecular techniques
• Jeremy Nicholson - metabonomics
• Tony Magee - imaging
• Paul Freemont  - structural and synthetic biology

 

Computing

• Tim Ebbels - Bioinformatics
• Philippa Gardner - data systems
• Stephen Muggleton - bioinformatics
• Natasa Przulj - mathematical modelling, computational biology
• Aldo Faisal - computational biology, neurotechnology

 

Informatics

• Sarah Butcher - bioinformatics
• Paul Elliott - epidemiology
• Stephen Muggleton - bioinformatics
• Elio Riboli - epidemiology
• Sylvia Richardson - biostatistics
• Mike Sternberg - structural bioinformatics

 

Mathematics

• Mauricio Barahona - biomathematics
• Neil Ferguson - infectious disease models
• Alberto Polleri - modelling
• Sylvia Richardson - biostatistics
• Guy-Bart Stan - synthetic biology, systems biology, nonlinear dynamical systems
• Michael Stumpf - statistics
• Vahid Sharezaei - biomathematics and computational systems biology

Engineering

• Mauricio Barahona - biomathematics
• Tom Ellis - synthetic biology
• Richard Kitney - synthetic biology
• Aldo Faisal - computational biology, neurotechnology
• Rob Krams - vascular biology
• Guy-Bart Stan - synthetic biology, nonlinear dynamical systems, control

 

Plants (including biofuels)

• Travis Bayer - renewable energy and materials
• Radhika Desikan - plant signalling mechanisms
• Bart Feys - plant signalling mechanisms
• John Mansfield - plant-microbe interactions
• Pietro Spanu - molecular biology of fungi

 

Model Organisms/systems

• Travis Bayer - network function and evolution
• Maggie Dallman  - innate immune signalling pathways (mouse, zebrafish)
• Kurt Drickamer  - innate immune signalling, glycomics
• Brendan Wren  (LSHTM) - pathology, enteric pathogens, genome analysis
• Fotis Kafatos ForMemRS - insect

 

Humans

• Tim Aitman - genomics
• Bill Cookson - airway diseases
• Paul Elliott - epidemiology
• Philippe Froguel   - genetics of multifactorial disease
• Jeremy Nicholson- metabolomics
• Alberto Polleri - adaptive immunity
• Sylvia Richardson - biostatistics
• Elio Riboli  - epidemiology
• Gavin Screaton - immunology and infectious disease

Disease

• Tim Aitman - diabetes
• Travis Bayer - biological therapeutics and diagnostics
• Steve Bloom - obesity
• Charles Coombes - Cancer
• Philippe Froguel - diabetes
• Alberto Polleri - immune diseases
• Elio Riboli - cancer
• Michael Schneider - cardiovascular disease
• Robert Sinden - malaria
• Brian D Robertson - application of systems biology tools to the study of infectious diseases