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Honorary Positions held in Biology

Honorary Professors

Professor Sir Richard Gardner FRS  

• Former Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford; patterning in early mammalian development, specification of left-right asymmetry and the biology of embryonic stem cells

Professor Sir John Lawton FRS

• Former Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council; impacts of climate change on ecological systems, conservation biology and the science/policy interface

Professor Ottoline Leyser CBE, FRS

•  Former Chair of the Research Committee, now Associate Director and Professor of Plant Development, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Professor David Pegg

• Editor-in-Chief of Cryobiology; Mechanism of freezing injury in tissues and the development of effective methods for the storage of tissues for clinical transplantation

Professor Dale Sanders FRS

• Former Head of Department, now Director of the John Innes Centre; membrane transport and signal transduction in plants, with emphasis on transport of heavy metals and calcium

Honorary Fellows

Dr Sue Bougourd

Dr Terry Crawford

• Former Deputy Head of Department; taught mainly population genetics and statistics, and researched plant breeding systems, population structure, polymorphisms and clines. A lifelong naturalist, with special interests in molluscs and insects, passionate about the need to encourage and inspire young adults to enjoy and respect the natural world around them

Dr Simon Hardy

• Export of proteins from E.coli, especially the interaction of precursors with the chaperone SecB and with SecA, the translocation ATPase as well as the interaction of these two Sec proteins with each other; folding of proteins in the periplasm

Dr Peter Hogarth

• Mangrove ecology, particularly in relation to biodiversity and productivity; biodiversity and biogeography of Crustacea

Dr Jim Hoggett

• Former Deputy Head of Department

Dr Geoff Oxford

• Evolutionary genetics with an emphasis on (i) convergent evolution of colour polymorphisms in spiders, (ii) hybridisation and its consequences in large house spiders

Dr Martin Rumsby

• Past research related to how oligodendrocytes myelinate axons in the CNS. Current research (with Prof Norman Maitland) concerns the role of the cytokines pleiotrophin and midkine in prostate cancer and the regulation of choline metabolism in prostate epithelial cells

Honorary Visiting Fellows

Dr Belinda Bullard   

• Former Staff Scientist at EMBL, Heidelberg; regulation of contraction in insect flight muscle and the control of sarcomere assembly by large modular proteins

Dr C Adam Middleton

• Former Head of Human Biology Department, University of Leeds; using genetic tools to investigate neuromuscular function and development

Dr Anne Rae

• Senior Geneticist, Cherry Valley Farms Ltd. Quantitative & population genetics; plant and animal breeding; genomics and molecular genetics for understanding plant processes and their genetic control; plant adaptation to environmental variation; analysis of phenotypic and genetic variation; statistical analysis.

Dr Kevin Walker

• Head of Research and Development, Botanical Society of the British Isles; distributions of native and alien plant species in Britain