Structural and Molecular Biology MPhil/PhD

The Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology provides a leading-edge research environment, superb access to technical resources, and world-recognised research expertise in areas such as ageing, algal biology and biotechnology, bacterial secretion, bioinformatics, computational biology, cellular protein trafficking, drug metabolism, cellular respiration, molecular microbiology, RNA and transcription biology, signal transduction, synthetic biology, protein biogenesis and folding, protein structure and dynamics and protein aggregation in disease.

We use state-of-the-art facilities in X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, cryo-electron microscopy, optical tweezers, single-molecule imaging, biophysical and biochemical analysis, molecular and cell biology.