Jonathan Ford
Postdoctoral Scientist![](https://www.jic.ac.uk/app/uploads/2018/12/Jonathan-Ford-e1547480468139-300x300.jpg)
Jonathan isĀ investigating the bacterial natural products, actinonin and the matlystatins.
These are potent metalloproteinase inhibitors and are potentially clinically relevant due to their anti-microbial, anti-cancer and anti-malarial properties.
Jonathan will be elucidating their biosynthetic pathway by heterologous expression of biosynthetic genes, protein purification and in vitro reconstruction of the putative pathway.