Dr Martin Pool MA, PhD

Biography

Martin studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and graduated with a first class degree in 1993. He stayed on in Cambridge for his graduate studies in the Department of Biochemistry working with Alison Baker investigating protein targeting to plant peroxisomes. After obtaining his PhD in 1997 he moved to the ZMBH at the University of Heidelberg working as an EU-funded post-doctoral research fellow with Bernhard Dobberstein studying protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum. In 2003 Martin moved to Manchester as a new lecturer and established an independent reserach group. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2011 and since 2012 has been the director for the BSc Biochemistry degree programmes.