Below is information about all the staff who currently work in DNA Sequencing & Services.

Dr Nicholas Helps (Head of Facility)

I was educated at Bristol and Leicester Universities where I obtained, respectively, BSc and PhD degrees in Biochemistry. After completing my PhD studies in 1992, I moved to Dundee to work in the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit. While working with Dr. Patricia Cohen in the MRC Unit, I used the yeast two hybrid system to identify a number of protein phosphatase one targeting subunits from Drosophila melanogaster and humans. After spending seven years in this post, I made a break from active laboratory research in 1999 to take up positions as head of DNA Sequencing & Services and Unit Safety Coordinator for the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit. I currently divide my time approximately equally between these two posts.

Mr Gary Hunter (Senior Technician)

Before joining DNA Sequencing & Services in 2002, Gary had accomplished many and varied feats and undertaken a variety of employment roles. Gary best describes this himself in his autobiography entitled "How to Get Ahead in Life by Bluffing", which you can read here.

Mrs Dawn Rooney (Technician)

 

Ms Fiona Wilson (Technician)

 

Mrs Fiona Traynor (Technician)

 

Mr Fraser Hughes (Technician)