With origins in London I have the dubious honour of being a true Cockney. I am currently Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Dundee in Scotland and the Institute of Parasitology, Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic. I have authored more than 200 research articles, 300 abstracts, have an h-factor of 68 with over 16 000 citations and an unbroken thirty year publication record, and was awarded the British Society for Parasitology C.A. Wright medal in 2010 for recognition of outstanding contributions to parasitology.
I was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and awarded first class honors in Biochemistry, remaining at Oxford for my D.Phil., studying glycoprotein structure and function. My postdoctoral career was initially at the Rockefeller University in New York describing glycosylphosphatidylinositol lipid biosynthesis and structure, with a further period in California at Stanford University, analysing protist surface protein families and characterising the endomembrane systems of trypanosomes. I returned to England in 1994 to establish a research group at Imperial College London, moving to the University of Cambridge in 2005 and the University of Dundee in 2013. The laboratory in Dundee will close by 2028, and I am no longer seeking new postgraduate students.
Studies principally exploit the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei and efforts to leverage genomics and proteomics resources to provide insight into virulence mechanisms and basic cell biology, with specific interests in protein transport systems and nuclear organisation. I have interests in bioinformatics, graphic design, functional genomics and eukaryotic evolutionary biology.
I review for many journals and granting agencies and am Chief Speciality Editor for Frontiers in Parasitology. I have served on the Medical Research Council Infection and Immunity board, Wellcome Trust Expert Reading Group, Polish National Science Centre grants council, as an external advisor at BIOCEV, Charles University, the council of the British Society for Parasitology and as a board member for CamPOD, a local charity in Cambridge.
I collaborate with colleagues in the UK, EU, Africa, Asia, North and South America. I currently live in central Edinburgh with my partner, daughter, several felines and a music/photography studio.
mfield@mac.com, +44 (0)751-550-7880
