Department of Biochemistry

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An internationally competitive research programme; themes include cell signalling and control of gene expression, to molecular microbiology, plant molecular biology and biofuel research, cancer and cardiovascular biology

The Department of Biochemistry is a member of the School of Biological Sciences and is one of the largest departments in Cambridge - around 400 research and support staff - with an internationally competitive research programme. The Department’s research contributes to the themes that describe the research in the School. We have attracted many outstanding independent research fellows with funding from the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, BBSRC and MRC, and several of our senior staff have been seconded to prestigious fellowships. The Department houses facilities funded by Wellcome Trust, BBSRC and MRC for modern biomolecular research, including an 800MHz NMR facility, modern X-ray laboratories, core facilities for mass spectrometry and plasmon resonance, advanced services for protein and nucleic acid sequencing. We have collaborated with the Department of Genetics in establishing the Systems Biology Centre, adjacent to the Sanger Building, which houses array technologies, proteomics and informatics, and we have established metabolomics elsewhere in the Department. We also participate in the new Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research. These new developments underpin research in a range of different biological processes from molecular enzymology, through cell signalling and control of gene expression, to molecular microbiology, plant molecular biology and biofuel research, cancer and cardiovascular biology.

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Research data supporting "The even pattern of xylan substitution is critical for interaction with cellulose in plant cell walls"

Dupree, Paul; Dupree, R; Brown, S
Research data supporting "Optoacoustic detection of early therapy-induced tumor cell death using a targeted imaging agent"

Brindle, Kevin Michael; Xie, B; Tomaszewski, M; Neves, A; Ros, S; McGuire, S; Mullins, SRTice, DASainson, RCABohndiek, SEWilkinson, RW et al.
SWATH-MS dataset of heat-shock treated Drosophila melanogaster embryos

Fabre, BF; Korona, D; Nightingale, DJH; Russell, SR; Lilley, Kathryn Susan (Elsevier, 2016-12)

Data independent acquisition (DIA) has emerged as a promising mass spectrometry based approach, combining the advantages of shotgun and targeted proteomics. Here we applied a DIA approach (termed SWATH) to monitor the ...
Combating mutations in genetic disease and drug resistance: understanding molecular mechanisms to guide drug design

Albanaz, ATS; Rodrigues, CHM; Pires, DEV; Ascher, David Benjamin

INTRODUCTION: Mutations introduce diversity into genomes, leading to selective changes and driving evolution. These changes have contributed to the emergence of many of the current major health concerns of the 21st century, ...