Affiliation: University of Sheffield

Chris Toseland is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the University of Sheffield in the Department of Oncology and Metabolism. His research group is interested in nuclear organisation with respect to transcription and DNA repair. The lab specializes in the application of fluorescence and mechanical measurements from whole cells to single molecules.

He received a BSc Biochemistry degree from the University of Wales – Aberystwyth in 2006 then commenced a PhD at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research/University of London. His thesis focused upon the biochemical and biophysical characterisation of DNA helicases. At the end of his PhD, he was awarded an EMBO Long Term Fellowship to move to the LMU–Munich to work on single molecule studies with myosin motors. After 3 years, he relocated to the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry with a research focus on genome organisation. He then established his research group at the University of Kent in 2015.