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Dr. Jim Bloor
in Cell and Developmental Biology
Biography
After completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Leicester, Jim went to work for Nick Brown at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, gaining a PhD for a genetic analysis of Drosophila integrins. He then went to the US to work with Dan Kiehart at Duke University. Here, first as an American Heart Association Research Fellow and then as Research Associate funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, he continued studying Drosophila integrins and their interactions with non-muscle myosin II. It was there that he developed his interest in the live imaging of cell and tissue movements within the developing Drosophila embryo. In 2002 he joined the School of Biosciences where he continues to se fruitfly as a model system to study the signaling and mechanical pathways that underlie many different sorts of biological movements including muscle contraction, morphogenetic cell sheets movements and cell migration. He is a member of the Cell & Developmental Biology group.
Education and Research Career
| 1990 | B.Sc., Biological Sciences, University of Leicester |
| 1997 | Ph.D, Developmental Genetics, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge |
| 1997 - 2002 | Research Associate and American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow, Developmental, Cell and Molecular Biology Group, Department of Biology, Duke University, North Carolina |
| 2002 - present | Lecturer in Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Kent |
Contact
| Room: B215 Extension: 3475 |
email: J.W.Bloor@kent.ac.uk |
