Structural Biology at St Andrews University University of St Andrews Crest

Welcome to our Group!

The Structural Biology Group at St Andrews University is located in the newly built Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, a £9M research centre that houses 120 research staff in an inter-displinary research environment designed to foster collaborations between the physical, chemical and life sciences. The structural biology group currently consists of two research groups, led by Professor's Garry Taylor and Jim Naismith, which combined have 7 postdocs, 11 PhD students and 3 technicians, and is one of the best equipped for protein crystallography in the UK, with a recently installed MSC/Rigaku MicroMax-007 rotating anode X-ray generator with Osmic optics, set up to serve two image plate detectors. An HTC detector with X-Stream cryohead on the right port, and an R-Axis IV++ with X-Stream cryohead on the left. Our research focuses mainly on protein carbohydrate interactions, but also includes research into viral surface proteins, protein halide ion interactions and bacterial membrane proteins. Computing is based on a network of PC, Mac and SG workstations with central Unix-based compute and RAID-filestore servers.

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Congratulations to Kostas for the first integral membrane protein structure solved in St Andrews!