Professor Charles Bond
Research Profile
Professor Charles Bond is a structural biologist and wants to understand how the spatial arrangement of biological molecules in complexes dictates their biological function. He is particularly interested in protein:nucleic acid interactions, and their functions in gene regulatory complexes in eukaryotes.
Structural biology sits at the intersection of biology, chemistry, physics, computation and visualisation, offering great opportunities for multidisciplinary work all within one lab! As a structural biologist, Charlie studies the three dimensional structure of biological molecules, such as nucleic acids and proteins, which helps to explain how the molecules function. The applications of his studies are very broad and far reaching. Protein structures can be used as a basis to design drugs to treat infectious diseases, and researching how proteins contribute to errors in DNA and RNA expression increases our understanding of how cancers and other disorders are caused, and how they might be treated.
He loves collaborating, combining his expertise in crystallography, bioinformatics, biochemistry and molecular biology, with experts in cell biology and other biophysical techniques.