Stefan Roberts - Deputy Chair

Stefan Roberts pursued a PhD at the University of Sheffield studying the regulation of gene expression in the salivary glands. In 1991, he went to the laboratory of Michael Green at the University of Massachusetts to undertake postdoctoral studies on the general mechanisms of transcriptional activation in eukaryotes. In 1996, he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship to establish a research group in the department of Biochemistry at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Here, his interests in basic transcription mechanisms continued, but he also initiated a project concerning the mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by the Wilms' tumour suppressor protein WT1. In 2000, Stefan was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship and moved his group to the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester. From 2006 to 2009 he was Chair of the Genes Theme Panel of the Biochemical Society. In 2009 Stefan moved to the Department of Biological Sciences at the University at Buffalo, New York.