People

Professor Ian Bancroft

CNAP Chair of Plant Genomics

• Genome evolution
• Food security
• Industrial biotechnology

+44 (0)1904 328778
ian.bancroft@york.ac.uk

Professor Neil Bruce (Director)

CNAP Director and Chair in Biotechnology

• Environmental biotechnology
• Biocatalysis
• Biorefining

+44 (0)1904 328777
neil.bruce@york.ac.uk 

Professor Katherine Denby

Academic Director of the N8 Agrifood Resilience Programme

• Plant biology
• Food security 
• Agricultural biotechnology

+44 (0)1904 328751 
katherine.denby@york.ac.uk 

Professor Ian Graham FRS

Director of BioYork, and Weston Chair of Biochemical Genetics

• Plant biology
• Biochemical genetics
• Agricultural biotechnology
• Medicinal crops
• Synthetic biology

+44 (0)1904 328750 
ian.graham@york.ac.uk

Dr Andrea Harper

• Plant biology
• Food security 
• Agricultural biotechnology

Dr Benjamin R. Lichman

• Synthetic biology platforms for natural product production
• Industrial biocatalysis
• Enzyme mechanism
• The formation of metabolic gene clusters 

Professor Luke Mackinder 

• Carbon fixation in algae and cyanobacteria
• Systems and synthetic biology 

 +44(0)1904 328984 
luke.mackinder@york.ac.uk

Professor Simon McQueen-Mason

CNAP Chair of Materials Biology

• Lignocellulosic biorefining and biofuels
• Digestibility of plant biomass
• Enzymes for plant biomass deconstruction

+44 (0)1904 328775
simon.mcqueenmason@york.ac.uk

Dr Thierry Tonon

CNAP ART Lecturer in Algal Biology

• Algal physiology and metabolism
• Algal metabolic pathways and enzymes
• Biotechnological applications of algae and algal genes
• Valorisation of seaweed biomass 

+44 (0)1904 328785 
thierry.tonon@york.ac.uk

Margaret Cafferky

Administrator

Julia Crawford

Administrator

Judith Mitchell

Senior Research Administrator