Introduction

Structural Biology of Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis and Recombination

Group leader Biography:

Owen Davies is a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Structural Biology at the Centre for Cell Biology. After graduating from the University of St. Andrews with a BSc (Hons) in Medical Science in 2003, he studied for a PhD at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Sir Tom Blundell and Prof. Luca Pellegrini. Upon completion in 2007, he was awarded a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship for postdoctoral study at theUniversity of Edinburgh with Prof. Sally Lowell. He then returned to the University of Cambridge in 2010, where he established his career research interest in the meiotic synaptonemal complexin Prof. Luca Pellegrini’s laboratory. Owen was awarded a Wellcome Sir Henry Dale Fellowship in 2014 to establish his independent laboratory to study the synaptonemal complex at the University of Newcastle. In 2021, he moved to the Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh as a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow (2021-2026) to study the structural basis of chromosome synapsis and recombination in meiosis.