Metabolomics and Systems Biology

Philip J Jackson obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Leeds, UK where his research is centered on the control of ATP synthesis in mitochondria.His subsequent postdoctoral positions, also in Leeds, involved the characterization of potential glycoprotein tumour biomarkers and the structural analysis of several membrane-intrinsic proteins including a proton-translocating ATPase. He then joined an instrumentation manufacturer as a product application specialist in proteomics and lipidomics. In 2010, he returned to Postdoctoral research to work in the Laboratories of Professors Neil Hunter, FRS and Mark Dickman at the University of Sheffield (UK). He specializes in biological mass spectrometry, applying this technology to (1) quantitative proteomics of complexes involved in light harvesting and energy transfer in photosynthesis, (2) analysis of protein-protein interactions within complexes that direct photosystem assembly and (3) structural characterization of the enzyme systems responsible for chlorophyll biosynthesis.