Syma Khalid
Background
Syma graduated with a first class degree in Chemistry from the University of Warwick in 2000. She remained at Warwick to read for a PhD under the supervision of Prof. P. Mark Rodger. After obtaining her PhD in 2003, she moved to the University of Oxford as a postdoc in Prof Mark Sansom’s lab, to study the structure-function relationship of bacterial outer membrane proteins. During her postdoctoral work, she became interested in the application of molecular simulation techniques to problems in bionanotechnology. In 2007, she was appointed as RCUK fellow in chemical biology at the University of Southampton. In 2010, she was appointed to a lectureship at Southampton and promoted to full Professor in 2016. In 2021 she was appointed as Professor of Computational Microbiology at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Anne’s College. Syma is the chair of HECBioSim and is on the Council of the Biophysical Society. She currently holds an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship
Current research
The main theme to the research in my group is the use of computational techniques to explore the structure-function relationships of a range of microbial membranes/cell envelopes, with a particular focus on Gram-negative bacteria. We strive to construct simulation systems that include as much biochemical complexity as is practical such that we see our simulations as computational assays. Using such an approach we are moving towards doing 'Computational Microbiology'.
Contact details
Department of Biochemistry
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3QU
U.K.
Email: syma.khalid@bioch.ox.ac.uk
