Tim did his undergraduate degrees and PhD at Cambridge University, supervised by Prof George Salmond. He then obtained an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship to join Prof James Berger’s lab at the University of California-Berkeley before moving across to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Arriving at Durham University in 2015, Tim founded a lab that focusses on the biochemistry and structural biology of phage defence, toxin-antitoxin systems and topoisomerases. Connect with Tim on @blowerlab.