Contacting CBRG members

The Computational Biology Research Group consists of bioinformatics programmers and statisticians as well as a dedicated systems administrator. The group can be contacted by email at: genmail@molbiol.ox.ac.uk - email sent to this address will reach all CBRG staff.

CBRG staff are located at two sites: the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. Full details can be found on the contact details page.

Mr Stephen Taylor - Head of the Computational Biology Research Group

After completing a B.Sc. in Microbiology and M.Sc. in Computer Science, Mr Taylor worked at Glaxo (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Bioinformatics Group Leader from 1993-1999 where he had a large involvement in the set up of the company's bioinformatics department including managing bioinformatics projects, building bioinformatics infrastructure and helping to set up the corporate intranet.

From 1999-2001 he worked for Entigen Pty Ltd as Senior Director of Bioinformatics. As well as directing the company's bioinformatics strategy he project managed the development of the web based bioinformatics workbench called BioManager which is now used at the Australian National Genome Information Service (ANGIS) in Australia by approximately 4000 users. Prior to joining the CBRG, Steve worked at Oxford Glycosciences.

Tel: (01865 2)22640   WIMM - Monday to Wednesday
Tel: (01865 2)85732   Dunn - Thursday to Friday
Email: stephen.taylor@imm.ox.ac.uk

Dr Simon McGowan - Bioinformatician

Dr McGowan gained a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics at the University of Warwick, examining the light-induced production of carotenoids in Myxococcus xanthus. He then completed two post-doc positions in the lab at Warwick University and at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, where his research centred on carbapenem antibiotic biosynthesis in Erwinia carotovora (Mol Microbiol. 1997:545-556).

Before joining the CBRG, he worked as a bioinformatician for four years at Oxford GlycoSciences (OGS) - a biotechnology/proteomics company. While at OGS he developed novel analysis methods for the interpretation of proteomics data, and initiated and developed a project to use this data in the annotation of the human genome (Curr. Proteomics 2004, 1:41-48). Simon has been with the CBRG since January 2004.

Tel: (01865 2)22609   WIMM
[ Tel: (01865 2)75507   Dunn ]
Email: simon.mcgowan@imm.ox.ac.uk

Dr Zong-Pei Han

Systems Administrator

Tel: (01865 2)85731
Email: zph@herald.ox.ac.uk

Professor Jonathan Bard

Academic Vistor

Professor Jonathan Bard is a mouse developmental biologist and ontologist who retired from the University of Edinburgh in 2007, and joined the CBRG as an associate. His main bioinformatics work is in formalising tissues and cells within ontologies so that they can be used for annotation. He is also interested in using systems approaches to mine expression databases for process-associated genes.

Tel:(01865) 315185
Email: j.bard@ed.ac.uk