Julian Blow is a molecular biologist, Professor of Chromosome Maintenance, and also the Dean of the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland.
[1] Blow’s research focuses on understanding how chromosomes are replicated and the molecular biology behind how this is regulated.
Primarily, his research investigates mechanisms that ensure the eukaryotic genome is precisely replicated during the eukaryotic cell division cycle so that no section of DNA is left un-replicated nor replicated more than once.
[3] In addition to this, Blow has contributions extending to: a potential "constant" number for DNA replication robustness,[4] methods for examining extracts from the African clawed toad (Xenopus laevis) that support cell cycle progression[5] and a potential method for reprogramming somatic cells to a pluripotent state.
[7] Blow has received many awards, among these being the British Association for Cancer Research / Zeneca "Young Scientist of the Year"[17] (1996), Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (2011) and in 2018, in collaboration with the Näthke lab, they were selected for a special collection of “outstanding” 2017/early 2018 Journal of Cell Biology articles focused on Stem Cells and Development.