Member List

RoSBNet Members

Below you will find a list of RoSBNet members, with links to their websites for more information.

Engineering/Mathematics Researchers

Member	Affiliation	Research Interests
Antonis Papachristodoulou	University of Oxford	Systems and synthetic biology, nonlinear systems, automatic control systems, synchronization, complex networks
Frank Allgower	Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart	Automatic control, systems biology
Mauricio Barahona	Imperial College London	Applied mathematics in biological, physical and engineering systems
Hong Yue	University of Strathclyde	Modelling and system analysis of biological networks; optimal/robust experimental design; Process control
William Heath	University of Manchester	System Identification: in particular identification of signals and dynamic models associated with biological homeostasis
Anne Smith	University of St Andrews	Complex biological networks (molecular, neuronal, ecological), network evolution
Marcus Tindall	University of Reading	Mathematical modelling, multi-scale modelling, multicellular systems biology, bacterial chemotaxis , non-linear ordinary and partial differential equations
Eric Bullinger	Université de Liège	Systems Biology, from data analysis over modelling to model analysis as well as the development of system theoretical methodologies
Jongrae Kim	University of Glasgow	Stochastic dynamics; System identification; Robustness analysis; Large-scale network analysis
Elias August	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Systems biology
Felix Reed-Tsochas	University of Oxford
Jotun Hein	University of Oxford	Bioinformatics
James Anderson	University of Oxford	Control and dynamical systems, systems biology, synthetic biology
Patrick McSharry	University of Oxford	Signal processing, systems biology, complex adaptive systems, operations research and forecasting
Steffen Waldherr	Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control Universität Stuttgart	Applications of approaches from control engineering and dynamical systems theory to systems biology and biological networks
Reiko Tanaka	Imperial College London	Biological control, systems biology
Jonathan Whiteley	University of Oxford	Mathematical modelling and scientific computing related to multiscale, multiphysics problems arising in physiology and biology
Achillefs Kapanidis	University of Oxford	Single-molecule studies of DNA-processing biomachines
Darren Wilkinson	Newcastle University	Applications of Bayesian statistics to a variety of problems in Molecular biology, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
David Gavaghan	University of Oxford	Computational biology
Declan Bates	University of Exeter	Robustness and feedback control in cellular and physiological systems
Jorge Goncalves	University of Cambridge	Systems Biology: modelling, analysis, and control of biological systems like circadian rhythms and gene regulatory networks.
Domitilla del Vecchio	MIT	Control and dynamical systems, biomolecular networks
Hana El-Samad	University of California, San Francisco	Interface between biology, mathematics, dynamical systems, and control theory
John Ryan	University of Oxford	Molecular motors, membrane proteins, single-molecule electronics and photonics
Mustafa Khammash	University of California, Santa Barbara	Control theory and its applications to engineering and to biological systems
Philip Maini	University of Oxford	Mathematical and computational modelling of temporal and spatiotemporal phenomena in a number of areas in the life sciences, including developmental biology, wound healing, cancer biology and bacterial chemotaxis
Nick Jones	Imperial College London	Cellular fluctuations and cellular energy variability, Principles of Natural networks
Steve Duncan	University of Oxford	Control theory, biological systems, epidemiology
Guy-Bart Stan	Imperial College London	Nonlinear dynamical systems and control, complex networks, synthetic biology, systems biology
Bence Melykuti	University of California, Santa Barbara	The interfaces of mathematical (esp. probabilistic) modelling, stochastic processes, control theory, systems biology, operations research
Abdullah Hamadeh	University of Waterloo	Modelling and analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems with applications to automatic control, process control and systems biology
Edward Hancock	University of Oxford	Nonlinear dynamical systems, systems biology
Alex Lubansky	University of Oxford	Microfluidics, Rheology, Synthetic Biology
Natalja Strelkowa	Imperial College London	Stochastic analysis of gene regulatory networks and applications of control theory and theoretical aspects of population dynamical models
Andrew Chipperfield	University of Southampton	Control systems engineering, biomedical modelling, signal processing
Orkun Soyer	University of Exeter	Evolutionary systems biology, synthetic biology, signalling networks, metabolic networks, bacterial communities
Mario Di Bernardo	University of Bristol	Analysis, synchronization and control of complex networks, systems and synthetic Biology
Eric Werner	University of Oxford
Tongli Zhang	University of Oxford	Modelling signal transduction pathways in mammalian cells
Rodolphe Sepulchre	Université de Liège	Nonlinear control and optimization

Biology/Biochemistry Researchers

Member	Affiliation	Research Interests
Judy Armitage	University of Oxford	Bacterial networks and protein dynamics
Ian Stansfield	University of Aberdeen	The mechanism of protein synthesis in eukaryote cells, and in the control of gene expression at the level of mRNA translation, both using the yeast Saccharomyces as a model system
David Fell	Oxford Brookes University	General principles governing the organization, regulation and control of metabolism
Alex Webb	University of Cambridge	The physiological benefits of the circadian clock and the signalling mechanisms by which the circadian clock regulates cell physiology
Peter Swain	University of Edinburgh	Systems biology
Ian Thompson	University of Oxford
Lee Sweetlove	University of Oxford	Regulation and engineering of the plant metabolic network
Mark Roberts	University of Oxford/BBSRC	Biological signalling circuits, bacterial transcription
Steve Porter	University of Exeter	Chemosensory signal transduction pathway in the photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Yo-Cheng (Mark) Chang	University of Oxford	Systems and synthetic biology
Sara Hooshangi	Union College, NY
Bela Novak	University of Oxford
George Wadhams	University of Oxford	Quantitative analysis of bacterial signalling pathways. Rewiring two component signal transduction pathways. Manipulation of protein-protein interactions within signalling pathways. The effect of host cell choice on the input-output characteristics of biological pathways
Mark Sansom	University of Oxford
Wei Huang	University of Sheffield	Single cell Raman tweezers technology (e.g. study genetic functions of non-culturable microorganisms in ecosystem). Microbial evolution (e.g. the role of gene transformation in evolution). Synthetic biology (e.g. gene trapping & screening, biosensors and bioenergy)
William Bryant	University of Leicester
Frederik Claeyssens	University of Sheffield
Jennifer Hallinan	Newcastle University	Complex Systems and analysis of biological networks
Karen Polizzi	Imperial College London	Biopharmaceutical processing, neurodegeneration and ageing, tools for synthetic biology
Katherine Denby	University of Warwick
Hans Westerhoff	University of Manchester	Integrative systems biology
Najl Valeyev	University of Kent
Nayia Petousi	University of Oxford
Victoria Jackson	University of Manchester	Integrative Systems Biology

Researchers from the Ethical, Legal and Social Sciences

Member	Affiliation	Research Interests
Annamaria Carusi	University of Oxford	Philosophical issues relating to synthetic biology; ethics, science and technology studies
Chris Sugden
Michael Parker	University of Oxford
Alexander Kelle	University of Bath
Giovanni Boniolo	European Institute of Oncology
Julian Savulescu	University of Oxford
Marianne Talbot	University of Oxford
Mark Sheehan	University of Oxford	Research ethics, ethics of emerging technologies, ethics of resource allocation, the ethics and justification of public engagement, ethics and social science methodology
Steve Clarke	University of Oxford
Jane Kaye	University of Oxford	The role of law in the global regulation of innovative technologies in medicine, with particular focus on biobanks and standardisation
Thomas Douglas	University of Oxford	The ethics of enhancing or modifying moral capacities, the nature of moral improvement, and the ethics of producing and disseminating dangerous knowledge
Liam Curren
James Revill	University of Sussex