User:Simon C. Baker

Contact Info



 * Simon C. Baker
 * Oxford Brookes University
 * Gypsy Lane
 * Oxford
 * England
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

I lead the BioProcess Research Group at the School of Life Sciences. I learned about OpenWetWare via word of blog, and I've joined to allow public dissemination of results generated from a multi-centre project.

Education

 * 1991, PhD, University of Warwick, UK
 * 1988, BSc, University of Reading

Research interests

 * 1) Biosurfactants At the moment we have active multidisciplinary research projects looking at new fermentation systems that generate large amounts of biosurfactant by a method known as foam fractionation
 * 2) Enzymology Currently we are looking at nucleic acid enzymology in non-aqueous systems, but in the past have explored the mutagenic space of enzymes such as nitrilase
 * 3) Collaborators Until his untimely death in March 2008, we were proud to collaborate with one of the better UK organic chemists, Dr David Kelly.

A few of our publications
// Our last paper on nitriles // The latest paper on surfactin // PhD work on methane sulphonate metabolism // Enzymology meets plastics formulation! // Review article
 * 1) Paper1 pmid=18264580
 * 1) Paper2 pmid=17681624
 * 1) Paper3 pmid=9000341
 * 1) Paper4 pmid=14514060
 * 1) Paper5 pmid=12867150
 * 1) Book1 isbn=0415390885

Useful links

 * Introductory tutorial
 * OpenWetWare help pages