Group members
The Bateson Centre has over 30 research groups, including MRC and Wellcome Trust Fellows. It supports joint-training programmes for both non-clinical and clinical researchers plus has a flourishing graduate and post-graduate community.
Principal Investigators
| Dr. Nasreen Akhtar (OM) |
| Cell Polarity and Cancer |
| Professor Oliver Bandmann (Neuroscience) |
| Zebrafish models of Parkinson’s Disease and related disorders |
| Dr. Mark Bass (BMS) |
| Fibroblast migration during wound healing: signalling from extracellular matrix receptors to Rho-family GTPase |
| Dr. Anne-Gaelle Borycki (BMS) |
| Satellite cell biology and skeletal muscle regeneration |
| Dr. Natalia Bulgakova (BMS) |
| Role of cell-cell adhesion in morphogenesis |
| Dr Kyra Campbell (BMS) |
| Epithelial cell plasticity in development and disease |
| Professor James Catto (OM) |
| Translational application of Molecular Biology to Urological Malignancies |
| Professor Tim Chico (IICD) |
| Studying Arteriogenesis using the Zebrafish |
| Professor Alison Condliffe (IICD) |
| Regulation of innate and acquired immune cell function by PI3 kinase signalling |
| Dr. Vincent Cunliffe (BMS) |
| Development of the Zebrafish Central Nervous System |
| Professor Sherif El-Khamisy (MBB) |
| DNA Damage Repair |
| Dr. Philip Elks (IICD) |
| Hypoxia and the host response to infection |
| Dr. Iwan Robert Evans (IICD) |
| Using Drosophila to study macrophage behaviour |
| Professor Paul Evans (IICD) |
| Vascular biomechanics |
| Dr Alexander Fletcher (SoMaS) |
| Mathematical modelling and analysis of patterning and morphogenesis |
| Dr Gareth Fraser (APS) |
| Development, diversity and regeneration of the vertebrate dentition |
| Dr. Andrew Furley (BMS) |
| Brain Development -Getting the right number of cells wired to the right target |
| Dr. Andrew Grierson (Neuroscience) |
| Zebrafish models of neurodegeneration |
| Dr. Catarina Henriques (OM) |
| Tissue Repair and Immunity in Ageing (TRIA) |
| Dr. Simon Johnston (IICD) |
| Macrophage biology and host pathogen interactions |
| Dr. Jason King (BMS) |
| The Autophagic Pathway |
| Dr Nils Krone (OM) |
| The systemic consequences of disrupted steroid hormone synthesis and action |
| Dr Andrew Lin (BMS) |
| Olfactory sensory coding, synaptic plasticity and memory |
| Dr Ryan MacDonald (IICD) |
| Glial cells in development and disease |
| Dr. Jarema Malicki (BMS) |
| Ciliogenesis and cell polarity |
| Dr Emily Noël (BMS) |
| Cellular Mechanisms of Heart Development |
| Professor Albert Ong (IICD) |
| Polycystic kidney disease |
| Professor Marysia Placzek (BMS) |
| Neural patterning and hypothalamic differentiation |
| Dr. Tennore Ramesh (Neuroscience) |
| Zebrafish models of neurodegeneration |
| Professor Stephen Renshaw (IICD) |
| The genetic controls of resolution of neutrophilic inflammation |
| Professor Marcelo Rivolta (BMS) |
| Human auditory stem cells and regenerative therapies for hearing loss |
| Dr. Henry Roehl (BMS) |
| Zebrafish musculoskeletal development |
| Dr. Jovana Serbanovic-Canic (IICD) |
| Role of endothelial mechanoreceptors in endothelial cell dysfunction and atherosclerosis |
| Dr Mirre Simons (APS) |
| Why and how all life slowly deteriorates to eventually cause death |
| Dr. Matthew Towers (BMS) |
| Vertebrate limb development |
| Dr Anestis Tsakiridis (BMS) |
| Stem cell potency in development and disease |
| Dr. Freek van Eeden (BMS) |
| Disease models and Shh receptor function in zebrafish |
| Professor Tanya Whitfield (BMS) |
| Development of the fish inner ear |
| Dr. Robert Wilkinson (IICD) |
| Blood Vessel and Blood Stem Cell Formation |
| Dr. Heather Wilson (IICD) |
| IL-1 biology in inflammation and atherosclerosis |
| Dr. Jon Wood (Neuroscience) |
| Using zebrafish to understand CNS disease mechanisms |
| Dr. Martin Zeidler (BMS) |
| Identification and analysis of JAK/STAT pathway regulators |