Department of Chemistry
DR MILTON ASHWORTH
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Milton is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the York Structural Biology Laboratory at the University of York, where he works with Fred Antson.
He completed his PhD at the University of York in 2024, investigating helicases and their potential applications in nanopore DNA sequencing.
His research interests include viral genome packaging, membrane proteins, and DNA/RNA helicases, with a particular focus on the conformational changes that enable helicases to translocate along nucleic acids. To investigate these processes, Milton uses single particle cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-electron tomography.
Selected Publications
Cryo-EM structure of a protein nanopore reveals lipid acyl chains as integral components, Milton Ashworth, Oliver W. Noble, Michael J. Plevin, Oliver W. Bayfield, Alfred A. Antson, Science Advances (2026). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeg9162