Dr Ben Rowlinson

Ben is a researcher in NMR spectroscopy with a particular interest in using NMR to investigate protein structure and dynamics. He completed his PhD at the university of York in 2018 where he was working on developing Isotopic labelling tools to aid NMR studies of protein structure and characterising the intrinsically disordered protein LIMD1.  Ben then moved onto a postdoctoral position at the university of Leeds where he worked on the TonB dependent uptake system that allows gram-negative bacteria to uptake scarce or large nutrients across the outer membrane. Here he used NMR spectroscopy and single-molecule FRET to characterise the structure and biophysics of TonB under a range of solution conditions and coupled these findings with in vivo assays to elucidate a mechanism for TonB activity.