Bob (robert) Robinson

Biography

  Bob obtained a BSc (1987) in Chemistry from King's College, London University, an MSc (1990) in Biochemistry from University of British Columbia, and a DPhil (1996) in Structural Biology from Oxford University. During his postdoctoral studies at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1996-2001), Bob solved the X-ray structure of Arp2/3, an actin-nucleating complex consisting of seven proteins. In 2001, Bob was appointed as a Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University. There, the research group elucidated structures of key actin-regulating proteins. Bob became an EMBO Young Investigator in 2003. Bob joined IMCB as a Principal Investigator in 2005 and became a Research Director in 2011. He holds adjunct/affiliated positions at NTU (LKCMedicine, NISB and SBS) and at NUS (Biochemistry and SynCTI), and serves on the Editorial Boards of Open Biology and Cytoskeleton. In Singapore, the laboratory has been instrumental in deciphering the evolutionary and structural bases of how force generated from polymerizing motors is integrated into biological processes. The laboratory runs the IMCB X-ray Facility.

Research Interest

 Molecular and Cell Biology