Dr Jim Warwicker - personal details

Jim is a Senior Lecturer 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.

In following a primary interest of developing algorithms to dissect structure/function relationships in proteins and other molecules, collaborations are maintained with several theoretical and experimental groups within and outside the UK. A major teaching activity is directing the UoM MSc in Bioinformatics, and taking it towards a more Systems-based curriculum. Jim is currently on the Editorial Board of several journals, including Biophysical Chemistry.