Our people
Around 340 people work in the Department of Biology.
We are a broad-based department with interests ranging from population ecology to single molecule studies.
Find contact details and explore who does what.
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Microbiology
- Chromosome Biology
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Cell and Developmental Biology
James Barrett
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
Marcello Beltrami
Jack-Birch Unit
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
Mark Bentley
Research interests:
- Industrial Biotechnology
Madeleine Berger
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Katrin Besser
Research interests:
- Industrial Biotechnology
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Carla Botelho Machado
carla.botelhomachado@york.ac.uk
B/L2 corridor
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Juliana Brambilla Carnielli Trindade
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
B/J/008
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
- Fundamental biological mechanisms
- Infectious diseases
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
- Neuroscience
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Research interests:
- Microbiology
- Industrial Biotechnology
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
- Chromatin and Epigenetics
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
Tomasz Czechowski
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Industrial Biotechnology
- Microbiology
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Jodie Dixon
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Alastair Droop
B/F002
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Research interests:
- Mathematics
- Bioinformatics and Computing
Juliana Fabiani Miranda
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Alison Fenwick
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Plant BiologyResearch interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Ecology and Evolution
- Microbiology
Research interests:
- Mathematics
- Bioinformatics and Computing
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
- Plant Biology
- Conservation biology
- Palaeoecology
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Microbiology
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
Michael Hicks
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
Michael Hodgkinson
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
Alexander Hogg
B/Q1 corridor
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Dr Jim Hoggett
Research interests:
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
- Machine Learning & AI, Genomics and Proteomics
- Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology
- Biochemistry
- Cancer Biology
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
- Education
Janina Hoßbach
Research interests:
- Industrial Biotechnology
Charlotte Hughes
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
- Ecology and Evolution
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
- Molecular Evolution
- Pathogen Evolution and Quantitative Genetics
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Plant Biology
Nathaniel Jones
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Alasdair Kay
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
B/Q/107
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
- Stem Cell Biology
- Single Cell Biology
Dimitrios Kioumourtzoglou
Research interests:
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Davey Kneafsey
B/Q205A
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Ekaterina Kolpakova
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
Alexandra Lanot
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Lianne Lansink
B/L1 corridor
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
- Ecology and Evolution
Daniel Leadbeater
Research interests:
- Industrial Biotechnology
Research interests:
- Biochemistry & Biophysics
Nathan Leborgne
Q2
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Professor Ottoline Leyser CBE, FRS
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Jakub Lukaszonek
B/Q2/Q1
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Dr Christopher Adam Middleton
Joanna Milek
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Pasky Miranda
Technology Facility Data Science Office
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics
- Mathematical Biology
Research interests:
- Microbiology
- Industrial Biotechnology
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Immunology
- Haematology and Infection
Dr Adrian Mountford
Y Romina Nievas
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
B/F/116A
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
- Parasitology
Dr Geoff Oxford
Fabiano Pais
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
Dimitra Papatziamou
dimitra.papatziamou@york.ac.uk
B/A block
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
Joanna Pearson
Research interests:
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Research interests:
- Mathematics
- Bioinformatics and Computing
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Industrial Biotechnology
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Eden Ramalho de Araujo Ferreira
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
Research interests:
- Microbiology
- Industrial Biotechnology
Alena Revalova
B/E105
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
Bianca Rodrigues Lima Ferreira
Research interests:
Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)Research interests:
- Plant Biology
- Industrial Biotechnology
Research interests:
- Industrial Biotechnology
- Enzymology
Professor Dale Sanders FRS
Paul Scott
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
Amy Simpson
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
Raphael Slip
Research interests:
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Research interests:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Professor John Sparrow
Vicki Springthorpe
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
Dr Jens Stahlschmidt
Richard Stokes
Research interests:
- Industrial Biotechnology
Sandesh Swamidatta
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Medicine
Danielle Taylor
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Ecology and Evolution
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
- Industrial Biotechnology
- Microbiology
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Mathematics
- Bioinformatics and Computing
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Industrial Biotechnology
Fabian E Vaistij
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Claire Varley
Research interests:
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
Katie West
Research interests:
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection (YBRI)
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Industrial Biotechnology
Caragh Whitehead
Research interests:
- Plant Biology
Research interests:
- Bioinformatics and Mathematical Biology
- Industrial Biotechnology
- Microbiology
B/L/105
Research interests:
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Immunology, Haematology and Infection
Rakshana Yenamantra Ramachandran
B/D107
Research interests:
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Weiye Zhao
Research interests:
- Molecular and Cellular Medicine