Neil Brockdorff

Neil Brockdorff is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biologists, The Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal Society. He is also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). 

Neil Brockdorff studies the molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression during development. A central focus of his work is X chromosome inactivation in mammals, a developmentally regulated process in which genes on one of the two X chromosomes present in female cells are stably silenced. More information can be found on his lab website Brockdorff Lab.  In addition to his research work Neil Brockdorff contributes to undergraduate and post-graduate teaching in the Department of Biochemistry.