Neil Hunter
Krebs Chair in Biochemistry
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
Biography
1978 - 1979: Busch Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Microbiology, Rutgers University, N.J., U.S.A. 1979 - 1980: Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Rutgers University, N.J., USA. 1981 - 1982: SERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Bristol University. 1983 - 1984: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Microbiology, Bristol University. 1984 - 1988: Lecturer, Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Imperial College, London. 1986: Visiting EMBO Fellow, Department of Biophysics, Leiden University, The Netherlands. 1986: Visiting Faculty Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Rutgers University, N.J., U.S.A. 1988 - 1990: Senior Lecturer, Dept of Mol. Biology and Biotechnology (MBB), Sheffield University. 1990 - 1993: Reader, MBB, Sheffield University. 1993 - 2008: Professor, MBB, Sheffield University. 2008 - present: Krebs Professor of Biochemistry, MBB, Sheffield University
Research Interest
Photosynthesis, microbiology, chlorophyll, phototrophic bacteria, cyanobacteria, carotenoids, light-harvesting complexes, reaction centres, membrane proteins, biochemistry, enzymology, nanotechnology, atomic force microscopy
Publications
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Hitchcock A, Hunter CN, Sener M. Determination of Cell Doubling Times from the Return-on-Investment Time of Photosynthetic Vesicles Based on Atomic Detail Structural Models. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2017 Mar 16;121(15):3787-97.
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Niedzwiedzki DM, Swainsbury DJ, Martin EC, Hunter CN, Blankenship RE. Origin of the S* Excited State Feature of Carotenoids in Light-Harvesting Complex 1 from Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2017 Aug 4;121(32):7571-85.
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Rampley CP, Davison PA, Qian P, Preston GM, Hunter CN, Thompson IP, Wu LJ, Huang WE. Development of SimCells as a novel chassis for functional biosensors. Scientific Reports. 2017;7.
