Adam Benham
Associate Professor
Department of Biosciences
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
I graduated from St. Catherine's College, Oxford, with first class honours in Biochemistry and obtained my PhD in transplantation immunology with Prof. John Fabre at the Institute of Child Health, University College, London. I received an EU postdoctoral fellowship to study the biochemistry of antigen presentation with Prof. Jacques Neefjes at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam and then joined Prof. Ineke Braakman's laboratory at Utrecht University, Netherlands, to research mechanisms of protein quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum.
Research Interest
Research Interests are Antigen processing and presentation, Oxidative folding of proteins in the Endoplasmic Reticulum.
Publications
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Tarran, W. A., Freeman, G. R., Murphy, L., Benham, A. M., Kataky, R. & Williams, J. A. G. (2014). Platinum(II) Complexes of N^C^N‑Coordinating 1,3-Bis(2-pyridyl)benzene Ligands: Thiolate Coligands Lead to Strong Red Luminescence from Charge-Transfer States. Inorganic Chemistry 53(11): 5738-5749.
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Tokuhiro, K., Satouh, Y., Nozawa, K., Isotani, A., Fujihara, Y., Hirashima, Y., Matsumura, H., Takumi, K., Miyano, T., Okabe, M., Benham, A.M. & Ikawa, M. (2015). Calreticulin is required for development of the cumulus oocyte complex and female fertility. Scientific Reports 5: 14254.
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Schorr-Lenz, A., Alves, J., Hence, N.A., Seidel, P.M., Benham, A.M. & Bustamante-Filho, I.C. (2016). GnRH immunization alters the expression and distribution of protein disulfide isomerases in the epididymis. Andrology 4(5): 957-963.
