Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology

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Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology
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Established2010
DirectorRobert Cross
Faculty 19
AddressGibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL
Location,
Coordinates 52°22′25.98″N1°33′8.07″W / 52.3738833°N 1.5522417°W / 52.3738833; -1.5522417
Website mechanochemistry.org

The Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology (CMCB) is a research centre at the University of Warwick, specialising in quantitative, biophysical approaches to cell biology. [1] The Centre was founded by Robert Cross, Andrew McAinsh and Anne Straube when they relocated from the Marie Curie Research Institute in Oxted, Surrey, UK to Warwick Medical School. [2] It has expanded to become an inter-disciplinary centre with research groups led by principal investigators from Physics, Computer Science, Maths and Warwick Medical School.

Research groups in the centre focus on themes such as cell division, cytoskeleton, molecular motors and membrane traffic. They are supported by Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Notable scientists in CMCB [3] include Andrew McAinsh (2018 Hooke Medal Winner [4] [5] ), Stephen Royle (2021 Hooke Medal Winner) and Anne Straube (Lister Institute Prize Fellow). [6] Many of the groups are located in the Mechanochemical Cell Biology Building [7] on the Gibbet Hill Campus. The building was opened in April 2012 by Nobel Prize laureate Paul Nurse. An extension to the building was subsequently built and opened by Nobel Prize winning cell biologist Randy Schekman in 2016.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the virtual seminar series "Motors in Quarantine" was initiated by CMCB scientists led by Prof. Anne Straube. [8]

Faculty

As of 2021 there are 19 Group Leaders in the Centre. [9]

Group Leaders:

  1. Mohan Balasubramanian
  2. Andrew Blanks
  3. Andrew Bowman
  4. Till Bretschneider
  5. Nigel Burroughs
  6. Robert Cross
  7. Samuel Dean
  8. Vasily Kantsler
  9. Darius Koester
  10. Andrew McAinsh
  11. Masanori Mishima
  12. Marco Polin
  13. Aparna Ratheesh
  14. Stephen Royle
  15. Karuna Sampath
  16. Timothy Saunders
  17. Michael Smutny
  18. Anne Straube
  19. Matthew Turner

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