Journal of Bioprocessing & Biotechniques

Mark Leake Royal

Mark Leake Royal, Ph.D
Society University Research Fellow (URF), Group Leader in Biological Physics Clarendon Laboratory
Oxford University, UK

Biography

Dr. Mark Leake Royal a Principal Investigator in biophysics at Oxford University heading an interdisciplinary science team of 9 people, with his group’s activities specializing in single molecule research on living cells using a range of cutting-edge biophotonics and photophysical techniques in combination with state-of-the-art genetics. He have 10 years ′post-doctoral research experience specialising in physics applied to biology at the single molecule level. He have worked on bio-molecule mechanical manipulation and force spectroscopy using both AFM and optical-tweezers, low-light fluorescence imaging in vivo and customized advanced microscope design involving development of nanometer length scale imaging with millisecond time resolution.He have a reputation in single-molecule investigations on living cells involving several multi-institutional collaborations, have published my group’s work in over 30 peer-reviewed articles (including several publications in Biophysical Journal, Nature, PNAS and Science), and in the final stages of writing a sole-authored textbook “Single molecule cellular biophysics” for Cambridge University Press.He have more than 20 significant conference proceedings, have been invited to present my research at ca. 30 talks across the world, and have chaired/co-organized several international meetings. He have won several awards including four competitive research fellowships (a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, a Hertford College Oxford University Research Fellowship, a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and a Senior Fellowship in Systems Biology) as well as an “Illustrious Team Research Award” from the Daiwa Adrian Anglo-Japanese Foundation. In 2010 he was voted the winner of the “Young Investigator Award” from the British Biophysical Society (BBS), a distinguished, competitive award made every two years to honour a single early career research scientist in the UK and Ireland who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to biophysics. He have been elected onto the Management Committee for the Biological Physics Group of the Institute of Physics (UK) as well as the Light Microscopy Committee of the Royal Microscopical Society, of which he is a Fellow. He is a member of the BBS, EBSA and the US Biophysical Society, and  genuinely committed to fostering greater joint activity between all three. His long term goal is to use physics to bridge the length scale gap between biological understanding at the level of single molecules to that at the level of cells, cell populations, tissues and organs.

Research Interest

Specializing in single molecule research on living cells using a range of cutting-edge biophotonics and photophysical techniques in combination with state-of-the-art genetics.