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I graduated in Biochemistry with Physiology at the University of Southampton in 1979 before PhD study with Prof Peter Jordan at the University of Southampton on the mechanism of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, being awarded a PhD in 1983. After post-doctoral research (1983-1985) in the Department of Organic Chemistry at ETH-Zurich working with Prof Duilio Arigoni on corrin biosynthesis, I moved to the University of Cambridge, firstly as a postdoctoral research assistant with Prof Richard Perham FRS, before establishing my own research group as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. In 1994, I moved to the University of Leeds. After time as lecturer, senior lecturer and reader I was promoted to the Chair of Molecular Enzymology in 2009. My research focusses on protein engineering and directed evolution of enzymes to increase their specificity and selectivity. I am particularly interested in how we can engineer enzymes for altered or greater stereoselectivity for use in the biocatalysis of important molecules including drugs. Recently I have pioneered experiments aimed at altering enzyme chemistry by the inclusion on non-canonical amino acids in the active sites. Other work is now concentrating on understanding and engineering enzymes involved in antibiotic production in an attempt to provide new routes to novel antibiotics to help tackle the antimicrobial resistance problem. I was Programme Leader for the Leeds undergraduate programme in Biochemistry and have acted as external examiner at a number of UK universities in Biochemistry. I have trained over 30 postgraduate and postdoctoral research scientists, published over 70 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 28. As well as national departmental seminars, I have delivered over 30 international invited lectures. Since 2006 I have been the Director of the Astbury Centre Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD programme in 'The Molecular Basis of Biological Mechanisms' and since 2015 I have been director of the White Rose BBSRC Doctoral Training Programme in 'Mechanistic Biology and its Strategic Application'. In 2015, I became the Director of Postgraduate Research for the Faculty of Biological Sciences in Leeds and Head of the Faculty Graduate School, responsible for the career development of over 250 postgraduates.
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Current opinion in chemical biology (2017): 33-38
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