Liam McGuffin
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Professor
Professor of Bioinformatics
Teaching
- Key Skills in Biological Sciences
- Molecular Genetics
- Introduction to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Part 3 Projects in Bioinformatics
- MSc by Research in Molecular Medicine
Research projects
- Funding from the BBSRC, MRC, Diamond Light Source, RCUK and International Governments
- Development of novel computational tools for the prediction of protein structures, functions and interactions from amino acid sequences. See: McGuffin Group Web servers
- Prediction and experimental verification of the effects of mutations on protein folding and function
- Application of computational methods for understanding the molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular function and disease
- Development of algorithms for the evaluation of the quality of 3D models of proteins and setting data standards for theoretical model validation
- High performance computing for the large scale structure and functional annotation of the proteomes of organisms relevant to food security
- Participation in the biennial experiments for the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP)
Awards and honours
Esteem Factors
- RCUK Academic Fellowship (held from 2006-2011)
- Invited speaker at numerous Community Wide Experiments on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction
- Member of the MRC College of Experts for Special Training Fellowships in Biomedical Informatics
- Member of the program committee for the European Conference on Computational Biology