Jerome Boyd-Kirkup

Former Postdoc
Email: jerome@picb.ac.cn, jerome.boydkirkup@gmail.com

Experience

  • 2011.07 - , CAS Young International Scientist Fellow in Jing-Dong Jackie Han's Lab, CAS-MPG Partner Institute of Computational Biology, SIBS, Shanghai

  • 2010.09 - 2011.07, Research Officer at Alzheimer’s Society, UK

  • 2009.01 - 2009.04, UK Medical Research Council Fellow at the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

  • 2005.10 - 2009.12, Ph.D. University of Cambridge, UK

  • 2002.09 - 2003.09, Research Student at the National Institute of Medical Research, UK

  • 2000.10 - 2005.07, MSci. Biochemistry, Imperial College London, UK

Research Focus

Systems biology of genetic and epigenetic modifications in mitochondrial genes that influence human aging and susceptibility to age-related disease.

Publications

  1. M. Di Re, H. Sembongi, J. He, A. Reyes, T. Yasukawa, P. Martinsson, L. J. Bailey, S. Goffart, J. D. Boyd-Kirkup, T. S. Wong, A. R. Fersht, J. N. Spelbrink and I. J. Holt*. The accessory subunit of mitochondrial DNA polymerase c determines the DNA content of mitochondrial nucleoids in human cultured cell. Nucleic Acids Research, Jul 2009.

  2. J. D. Boyd-Kirkup. Diet and Cancer (Review). UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology note, 2019.

  3. Ian J Holt, Jiuya He, Chih-Chieh Mao, Jerome D. Boyd-Kirkup, Peter Martinsson, Hiroshi Sembongi, Aurelio Reyes and Johannes N Spelbrink. Mammalian mitochondrial nucleoids: Organizing an independently minded genome. Mitochondrion, Sep 2007.

  4. Y.P Lin, V Gregory, M Bennett, H Wright, J Boyd-Kirkup, R Russell and A Hay. Genetic reassortment among recently circulating human influenza A and B viruses. International Congress Series, Jun 2004.

Personal Show

  • Favourites: Travelling the world, meeting new people, studying the history of other cultures, trying new foods, communicating science to everybody, and listening to live music.