James Hodgkinson-Bean

James completed his bachelors degree at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, before moving on to study his PhD at the University of Otago in Dunedin New Zealand. His PhD research focussed on complete virion structure of a range of bacteriophages belonging to Myophage and Podophage morphotypes to better understand structural variations amongst phages and phage evolution. In 2025 James moved to Copenhagen to join the Taylor lab, where he now researches mechanisms of flagella-tropic bacteriophage infection and jumbo-phage structure using cryo-EM, computational methods and functional studies.