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Professor Martin Cann is Head of Department in the Department of Biosciences and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University. His research focuses on carbon dioxide (CO₂) sensing and its impact on cellular processes, particularly through carbamate post-translational modifications. He collaborates with physicists, chemists, and mathematicians to explore CO₂'s role in diverse biological systems, including plant responses to environmental changes and cellular signaling mechanisms.
Key research interests include bicarbonate regulation, molecular biology, signal transduction, and hypercapnia/hypocapnia effects. Cann has supervised multiple PhD students, including Victoria Liu, Breanna Voss, and others, in areas such as microbiology, molecular signaling, and plant biology.
His awards include Fellowships from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2023) and Royal Society of Biology (2021), and the Rosalind Franklin Silver Medal (2020). Notable contributions include identifying CO₂-binding proteins like ubiquitin and elucidating CO₂'s role in plant and microbial systems. Cann's work bridges biochemistry, cell biology, and systems biology to uncover fundamental mechanisms of CO₂ regulation in life processes.
