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Prof. Douglas Kell
School of Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Faraday Building
PO Box 88
Sackville Street
Manchester M60 1QD
United Kingdom
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Email:
Tel: +44 (0)161 306 4492
Fax: +44 (0)161 306 4556
Place of birth: London, U.K. Date of birth: 7 April 1953
Marital status: Married, 1 son (DoB 3-8-92), 2 daughters (DoB 15-7-95 and 27-3-98)
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Education |
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Primary and Secondary education:
Hydneye House, Sussex (pix),
1961-66,
Bradfield
College, Berkshire (Top Scholar), 1966 - 1970.
'A' Levels: Physics (A), Chemistry (A), Pure & Applied Mathematics (B).
University record:
B.A. (Hons) Biochemistry,
St John's College,
Oxford (1975), Class 2-1,
with Distinction in Chemical Pharmacology.
Senior Scholar of St John's College, Oxford. M.A. (Oxon) 1978.
D.Phil. (Oxon) 1978; thesis title: "The Bioenergetics of Paracoccus
denitrificans".
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Postdoctoral work |
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SRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College of Wales,
Aberystwyth, 1978 - 1980. Project title: "Energy Coupling in
Methanogenic Bacteria".
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University College of Wales,
Aberystwyth, 1980 - 1981. Project title: "Butyricin 7423 and the
membrane H+-ATPase of Clostridium pasteurianum".
SERC Advanced Fellow, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1981 -
1983. Project title: "Novel approaches to the understanding of
protonmotive systems in bacteria".
'New Blood' lecturer in Microbial Physiology, Department of Botany &
Microbiology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1983 - 1988.
Director, Aber Instruments Ltd, 1988 -
Reader in Microbiology, Dept of Biological Sciences, University College
of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1988 - 1992.
Personal Chair, University of Wales, 1992 - 2002
Director of Research, Institute
of Biological Sciences, UW Aberystwyth, 1997-2002.
Director, Aber Genomic Computing (now
Predictive Solutions Ltd), 2001 -
EPSRC/RSC
Research Chair in Bioanalytical Sciences, Dept of Chemistry,
UMIST. 2002 - (since 2004
School of Chemistry,
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Awards and Distinctions |
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1986 Recipient of the Fleming Award of the
Society for General
Microbiology, awarded annually by the Society "in recognition
of outstanding research by a young microbiologist working in the UK or the
Republic of Ireland".
1986/87 Co-recipient (with Dr R.W.Todd) of one of 12 SMART Awards (Phase
I and Phase II) for novel instrumentation from the Department of Trade and
Industry, for "the development of an electronic biomass probe".
1989/1990 Co-recipient (with colleagues from
Aber Instruments) of a
SMART Award (Phase I and Phase II) from the Department of Trade and
Industry for the development of "An automated bacterial colony
counter".
1999 Fellow of the Institute of Biology
(CBiol FI Biol)
2002 DTI
Beacon Award in collaboration with Mike White
(Liverpool University), Steve Oliver and Norman Paton
(University of Manchester).
2004 Royal Society
of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award
2005 FEBS/IUBMB
Theodor Bücher medal
and lecture. 2005
Royal Society/Wolfson Merit Award. 2005
Royal Society
of Chemistry Chemical Biology Award 2006 SAC/RSC
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Miscellaneous |
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Some links I may find useful are here.
Click here for a picture of the boss (ca 200 kbytes)
and here for a more action-packed one (ca 295 kbytes),
here for the 2nd newest boss (ca 150 kbytes) and
here for our newest addition.
Click to see the list of some publications of
the group. My Community of Science entry is here.
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Contact Details |
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If you wish to contact me, please use the following contact details:
E-mail:
Address:
School of Chemistry and The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre
The University of Manchester
131, Princess St,
Manchester M1 7DN
United Kingdom
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