Dr John Danial

Dr John Danial

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3767
Email
jshd1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

I obtained my DPhil in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Oxford as a Weidenfeld–Louis Dreyfus Scholar under the supervision of Professor Mark I. Wallace (now Professor of Chemistry at King’s College London). I then joined the group of Professor Ana Garcia-Saez (now Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics) at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen as a Max Planck Society–funded postdoctoral research fellow.

Following this, I moved to the University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral research associate funded by EISAI and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), working with Professor Sir David Klenerman FRS (Royal Society Research Professor) at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry and the UK DRI. During this period, I was also a College Research Associate at King’s College, Cambridge, and a Bye Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge.

I am currently an MRC Career Development Fellow and a proleptic Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Experimental Biophotonics

Research areas

Biology and disease are heterogenous. Same proteins can adopt different conformational structures leading to different diseases. However, It is currently impossible to visualise protein structures in human samples with existing methods.

My lab develops new instrumentation, assays, and software to probe and image protein structure with light. Our eventual aim is to democratise these technologies and use them to study and diagnose fatal neurodegenerative diseases.

PhD supervision

  • Keer Feng
  • Ava Kelly

Selected publications

 

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