{"id":169,"date":"2023-10-09T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T10:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/multidefence\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2023-12-13T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T09:58:46","slug":"prof-tim-r-blower-durham-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/multidefence\/prof-tim-r-blower-durham-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Tim R. Blower, Durham University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/multidefence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/235\/2023\/08\/TRB_Headshot8-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/multidefence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/235\/2023\/08\/TRB_Headshot8-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/multidefence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/235\/2023\/08\/TRB_Headshot8.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">Tim is a Professor in the Department of Biosciences at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.durham.ac.uk\/staff\/timothy-blower\/\" target=\"_blank\">Durham University<\/a>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;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 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blowerlab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">lab<\/a> that focusses on the biochemistry and structural biology of phage defence, toxin-antitoxin systems and topoisomerases. Connect with Tim on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlowerLab\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlowerLab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@blowerlab<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim is a Professor in the Department of Biosciences at Durham University. Tim did his undergraduate degrees and PhD at Cambridge University, supervised by Prof George Salmond. 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