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Latest news:
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03/11/2011: Paul Ashford delivered a talk on his PhD work at the UK-QSAR
Autumn 2011 meeting in Cambridge.
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03/10/2011: SERAPhiC , a high quality protein-fragment data set is now available in a ready to dock format through IIT.
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08/07/2011: Congratulations to Jan Czarnecki for winning first prize for his presentation at the ISMB 2011 Graduate Symposium!
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04/07 to 09/07/2011: I am participating in the SYNTHESIS workshop organised by UCL, The Arts Catalyst, Symbiotica and Synthetic Aesthetics - see the workshop blog for more information
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For older news and links check out the NEWS tab above...
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A little bit about myself...
In the tradition of bioinformaticians being Jacks of all trades and masters of one, I have juggled (so far)
Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science and I am claiming Chemoinformatics as my speciality. Since my PhD,
I have spent many years arguing for the need to explore the metabolome, and integrate bio- and
chemo-informatics. More recently, and whilst waiting for metabolomics data to pile up for analysis,
I have been trying, not without a sense of panic, to keep up with the racing fields of RNA-ligand interactions
and inhibition of protein-protein interfaces. I like to spend the rest of the time thinking about drugs
(mostly natural products), or promiscuous behaviour (of enzymes and other proteins). Lately, my wavefunction
is localised at synthetic biology meetings.
Browse around, drop me a line, or come for coffee, if you'd like to have
a chat.
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I am grateful to the following bodies for financial support (since my PhD):
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Pfizer, MRC, BBSRC, Royal Society, University of London Central Research Fund, Birkbeck College, the Wellcome Trust, Unilever, the Nuffield Foundation.
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Short biography
- Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Birkbeck College (Sep 2007 - now)
- Lecturer in Bioinformatics, King's College London (Oct 2005- Aug 2007)
- MRC training fellowship in Bioinformatics (with prof. Janet Thornton), European Bioinformatics Institute (2001-2005)
- Postdoctoral research fellow (with prof. Janet Thornton), University College London (1999-2001)
- TMR postdoctoral research fellow (with prof. Juan Novoa), University of Barcelona (Nov 1998- Jan 1999)
- PhD in Theoretical/Computational Chemistry (with Prof. Sally Price), UCL Chemistry (1995- 1998)
- MSc in Computing Science, Birkbeck Computer Science (2001- 2003)
- BSc in Computer-Aided Chemistry, University of Surrey (1991-1995)
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