Professor Michael Geeves

Emertius Professor of Physical Biochemistry

About

Mike Geeves joined the School of Biosciences in January 1999. He studied biochemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham then went on to the University of Bristol to work on a PhD with David Trentham. It was here that he first came to work on the myosin motor which has been the focus of his work ever since. In those early days it was muscle myosin - the only known form of myosin. After completing his PhD he spent 2 years at the University of California, Santa Cruz studying enzymology at sub-zero temperatures with Anthony Fink. He then return to spend 14 years at the University of Bristol working alongside Freddie Gutfreund, first as an SERC Junior Fellow then as a Royal Society University Fellow. At the end of the Fellowship he moved to become a Group Leader in the new Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology that was being established in Dortmund by Roger Goody. He left there to take up the current position as Professor of Physical Biochemistry. He was Head of School between 2006 - 2010.
Mike is a member of the Mechanobiology group also known as MaDCaP 
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9364-8898

Research interests

  • Molecular motors particularly the motors of the myosin family including the myosin IIs responsible for muscle contraction
  •  Regulation of muscle contraction via calcium 
  • Inherited diseases of skeletal and cardiac muscle 
  • Novel fast reaction methods.  

Supervision


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