Mark Shepherd PhD

Dr. Mark Shepherd joined the School of Biosciences in 2011. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Sheffield and stayed in the Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology to undertake a Ph.D. with Professor Neil Hunter FRS (1999-2003), where he developed his interest in the enzymology and spectroscopy of chlorophyll and haem biosynthesis. After completing his Ph.D. studies, he conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Harry Dailey at the University of Georgia, where his research focussed on the terminal enzymes of haem biosynthesis. This was followed by a move back to the University of Sheffield in 2005 to take up a postdoctoral position with Prof. Robert Poole, where he developed interests in E. coli respiration, globin proteins, and the response of bacteria to nitric oxide. A subsequent position at the University of Queensland with Prof. Mark Schembri focussed on nitric oxide stress in Uropathogenic E. coli. In 2011 he moved to the University of Kent, where he is now a Senior Lecturer in Microbial Biochemistry.