Prof Grant Wheeler

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Prof Grant Wheeler

Principal Investigator

Reader in Cell and Developmental Biology
Email: Grant.wheeler@uea.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1603 59 3988
Office Room 6/0.13

Career History
  • Reader in Cell and Developmental Biology 2015-present
  • Senior Lecturer in Cell & Developmental Biology 2010-2014
  • Lecturer in Cell and Developmental Biology at University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2001-2009
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate and Honorary Lecturer in the lab of Dr Stefan Hoppler, University of Dundee. Studying Wnt signalling in Xenopus development. 1998-2001.
  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the lab of Prof. Birgitte Lane, University of Dundee. Looking at the biology of plectin, a component of hemidesmosomes. 1996-1998.
  • Postdoctoral research with Prof. Richard Hynes at the MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Studying cytoskeletal interactions of integrins. 1992-1996
  • Postgraduate studies at the N.I.M.R. in Mill Hill, London, U.K. with Dr. Tony Magee on the cell and molecular biology of desmosomes. 1988-1991
  • Undergraduate studies in Biochemistry at King's College, University of London, including a sandwich year at the Advanced Drug Delivery Research Unit, Ciba Geigy, Horsham. 1984-1988

Selected External Activities and Indicators of Esteem
  • March 2017, Co-organiser Gene Regulatory Systems in Development Meeting, Carmona, Spain
  • Committee member on the International Xenopus Board (2016-present)
  • Co Organiser - DNATRAP Workshop on drug development to cross Biological Barriers. July 2016
  • August 2016, Co-organiser of the 16th International Xenopus Meeting, Kolymbari, Crete
  • Invited Speaker to a meeting on Neural Crest at the Weizmann Institute, Israel. September 8-11th, 2013
  • Secretary of the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) (2011-2016)
  • Committee member of the British Society for Cell Biology 2010 - 2016


Administrative Posts
·    May 2017 - present: Organiser of the BIO Open Lecture programme
·    October 2013 – present: Theme leader for the Cells and Tissues Theme in the School of Biological Sciences
·    Dec 2011 – 2018: Information Officer for the School of Biological Sciences.
·    2010 – 2014. Member of the University Senate Student Disciplinary Committee for UEA.
·    August 2006 – December 2011, Senior Advisor for BIO.


·    BIO Graduate Studies Committee 2002-2005

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