Jim is a Reader in the Faculty of Life Sciences. His research group works in the areas of bioinformatics and structural modelling of biological molecules, complementing the work of other staff in the Structural and Functional Systems grouping.
Jim started his University education with a Physics degree at the University of Bristol (1979) before moving into the Biochemistry Department at Bristol for his PhD (1983). A period as a post-doctoral Fellow at Yale University with Fred Richards and Tom Steitz (1983-1988), was followed by 10 years at the BBSRC Institute of Food Research, and a short spell at Glasgow University. In 2000 he took up a Lectureship at UMIST, and moved (with the Universities merger) to the current UoM.
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