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Curriculum Vitae

  • 1984-1989 Mechanical Engineering, HTBL Graz, Austria, Ing.
  • 1989-1996 B.Sc. Physics & MSc. Theor. Physics, Erzherzog Univ. Graz
  • 1996-2000 PhD in Comp. Protein Cryst., EMBL & Karl-Franzens Univ. Graz.
  • 2000-2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Crystallography - Dr. G. Bricogne, Cambridge
  • 2002-2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Structural Bioinformatics - Prof. J. Thornton, EBI, Hinxton
  • 2005- Project Leader in Computational & Systems Biology, JIC
  • 2006- Hon. Lecturer in Computing Sciences, 2008 Sen. Lecturer
  • 2008- Hon. Reader in Biological Sciences
  • 2010- Hon. Reader in Mathematics
  • 2010- Head of Department, Computational & Systems Biology

Richard Morris

Head of Department

Computational and Systems Biology

Contact details

richard.morris@jic.ac.uk

Research interests

The main research focus of my group is on the application of mathematical and computational models to help understand biological phenomena. We are particulary interested in how biological entities process information and communicate through `noisy channels'. 

The approaches range from standard numerical and theoretical physics techniques to methods of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational geometry, computer vision, information theory, Bayesian inference, evolutionary programming and the development of new algorithms.

 

Selected Publications

Granqvist E., Oldroyd G. E., Morris R. J. (2011)
Automated Bayesian model development for frequency detection in biological time series
BMC Systems Biology 5 (1) 97
DOI:10.1186/1752-0509-5-97
Grandison S., Roberts C., Morris R. J. (2009)
The application of 3D zernike moments for the description of "model-free" molecular structure, functional motion, and structural reliability
Journal of Computational Biology 16 (3) 487-500
DOI:10.1089/cmb.2008.0083
Hazledine S., Sun J., Wysham D., Downie J. A., Oldroyd G. E., Morris R. J. (2009)
Nonlinear time series analysis of nodulation factor induced calcium oscillations: evidence for deterministic chaos?
PLoS One 4 (8) e6637
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0006637
Grandison S., Morris R. J. (2008)
Biological pathway kinetic rate constants are scale-invariant
Bioinformatics 24 741-743
Kosuta S., Hazledine S., Sun J., Miwa H., Morris R. J., Downie J. A., Oldroyd G. E. (2008)
Differential and chaotic calcium signatures in the symbiosis signaling pathway of legumes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105 (28) 9823-8
DOI:10.1073/pnas.0803499105

Recent Publications

Capoen W., Sun J., Wysham D., Otegui M. S., Venkateshwaran M., Hirsch S., Miwa H., Downie J. A., Morris R. J., Ané J. M., Oldroyd G. E. (2011)
Nuclear membranes control symbiotic calcium signaling of legumes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108 (34) 14348-14353
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1107912108
Niewiadomski S., Beebeejaun Z., Denton H., Smith T. K., Morris R. J., Wagner G. K. (2010)
Rationally designed squaryldiamides - a novel class of sugar-nucleotide mimics?
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 8 (15) 3488-3499
DOI:10.1039/c004165c