Research Groups

Glasgow University has a longstanding reputation as a centre for world-class research in Genetics. Our Molecular Genetics research groups aim to understand how genes and their regulation determine the attributes and functions of living organisms. The subjects of our research range from molecules to cells, whole organisms and populations. Molecular Genetics staff and their research interests are listed below.

Mammalian Functional Genomics

• Dr Mark Bailey:  Brain expressed genes - evolution of gene families and role in human disorders
• Professor Wayne Davies:  Molecular mechanisms of nerve cell death - focus on Parkinson's Disease
• Professor Darren G Monckton:  Tandem repeat biology
• Dr Joanna Wilson:  Cancer and Development
• Dr Roger Sutcliffe:  Molecular Genetic Basis of Parkinson's Disease
• Dr Tom Van Agtmael:  Role of collagen type IV in human disease and identification of genes and pathways underlying vascular disease 

Drosophila Integrative Physiology

• Dr Shireen Davies: Molecular Genetics of cell signalling in Drosophila
• Professor Julian Dow: Molecular genetics of ion transport and cell signalling in Drosophila
• Dr Stephen Goodwin: Drosophila neurogenetics - Molecular Neurogenetics of Courtship behaviour
• Dr Kevin O'Dell: Drosophila behavioural genetics

Molecular Recombination

• Dr Martin Boocock: Enzymology of proteins that bind and act on DNA
• Dr Sean Colloms: Long-range protein-DNA interactions in site-specific recombination
• Professor Marshall Stark: Mechanisms of Site-specific Recombination and DNA-protein interactions

Model Organisms

• Dr John Clutterbuck: Aspergillus Developmental Genetics
• Dr Bernard L Cohen: Molecular Systematics
• Dr Joe Gray: Cell signalling genes in yeast
• Dr Richard Wilson: Glutamine synthetase - gene amplification and expression 
• Dr Iain Johnstone:  Tissue specific control of the cell cycle in C. elegans