Emeritus Professor Nigel Robinson

About

Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston, Birmingham UK, then (1978 to 1981) BSc in Life Sciences (Plant Physiology, Class I honours) at Liverpool University. Postgraduate studies (1981 to 1984, SERC studentship), Department of Botany, Liverpool University: Ph.D. thesis ‘Cu-binding protein and Cu-tolerance in Mimulus guttatus’. Awarded NERC overseas Research Fellowship plus support from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Directors funded fellowship (1984 to 1986) to collect ‘genetic resources for metal tolerance’, in the Genetics Group, LANL, New Mexico, USA, then (1986 to 1987), as a Staff member (Postdoctoral Appointee) at LANL. Awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowship (1987 to 1995) to study ‘Molecular mechanisms and genetic resources for metal resistance’, initially (to 1994) in the Department of Biological Sciences, Durham University. Appointed Established Chair of Genetics/Professor of Molecular Genetics, (1994 to 2011), Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, Medical School, University of Newcastle and later Director of Research, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biosciences (ICaMB) at its foundation. Appointed Professor of Biomolecular Sciences (from 2011) in the Departments of Biosciences and of Chemistry, Durham University, UK, plus Deputy Director Biophysical Sciences Institute (BSI) and later Director of Research for Biosciences. Appointed Emeritus Professor, Durham University, from October 2024. Supporting ELEMENTAL work packages 3 and 4.1.

Key areas of expertise:

• Cell Biology of Metals

• Metalation calculator version II (released January 2025) decodes cognate metalation and predicts the metalation state of proteins inside cells

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