Ben Collins
Since August 2019 Ben is a Reader in the the School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, UK. His research focuses on broadly on 3 topics: (i) method development and applications in data independent acquisition mass spectrometry; (ii) method development and applications in the analysis of protein interaction networks and protein complexes; and host-pathogen biology with a focus on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ben is a native of Ireland where he studied chemistry and applied chemistry at the National University or Ireland, Galway. After working as an analytical chemist in Schering-Plough, Ireland, he undertook an MSc in Molecular Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. Ben's PhD was completed at University College Dublin in 2009 where he remained for 1 year as the Agilent Technologies Newman Fellow (postdoctoral) in Quantitative Proteomics. Ben moved to the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich in Autumn 2010 as postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Ruedi Aebersold, where his research focused on the application of quantitative interaction proteomics in signaling and the development of DIA/SWATH mass spectrometry. Following this Ben was a Group Leader and SNF Ambizione Fellow at IMSB, ETH Zurich with a focus on applying methods developed as a postdoc to relevant problems in host-pathogen biology.
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