High Throughput Screening Facility Staff

Peter trained as a geneticist during his undergrduate degree at Newcastle University. He gained his PhD studying the role of cohesins in Caenorhabditis elegans, also at Newcastle University before starting a post doctoral role with David Lydall. It was whilst working on the role of chromatin modifications in budding yeast that Peter became interested in the use of robotics in Genetic research. Utilising the unique setup that David Lydall had develped within the Centre for Intergrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition, Peter developed the skills that would allow him to move into high throughput screening.

In 2011 Peter was appointed to run a new facility set up within the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University. Initially offering to run genome wide yeast screens the faculty invested significant funds to develop mammalian siRNA screening in 2012. Over the following years the screening facility has continue to develop recruiting a new member of staff Adrian Blackburn incorporating bacteria and alternative yeasts such as Candida albicans.

Dr Peter Banks
High Throughput Screening Facility
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Framlington Place
Newcastle University
Newcastle
NE2 4HH
0191 2084963
peter.banks@ncl.ac.uk

Adrian graduated in Biochemistry and Physiology from Sheffield University and has been employed as a Research Technician over a wide range of biological sciences, as a teacher in FE, and in a university spin out company specialising in molecular methods in food microbiology and DNA-based microbial identification. He joined HTSF in May 2014 and is involved in running yeast screens.

Adrian Blackburn
High Throughput Screening Facility
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Framlington Place
Newcastle University
Newcastle
NE2 4HH
0191 2084963
Adrian.Blackburn@ncl.ac.uk