​In the Thomas lab we seek to understand how bacteria interact with their environment, primarily through the study of how they take up and excrete small molecules and manage the synthesis and function of their cell envelope, for a range of fundamental, industrial biotechnology, medical and bioenergy applications. See Our Research for more details. We are the also the academic home of MORF Bio Ltd, a spin-out of the University of York that creates web-based bioinformatics tools to enable bench-scientist to access complex biological data analysis tools through their browser. 

​Latest publication: ​Bethan E. Kinniment-Williams, Vytaute Jurgeleviciute, Daniel T. West, Reyme Herman, 
James N. Blaza, Marjan W. van der Woude, Gavin H. Thomas. Structural unification of diverse transmembrane acyltransferases reveals a conserved fold for the Transmembrane Acyl Transferase (TmAT) superfamily. (2025) Journal of Biological Chemistry, 110546 

We are always on the look out for potential PhD and MSc by Research students. Please drop us an Email if you are interested in studying for a high degree in the lab.