Summer lab-based traineeship supervisors in Life Sciences

Potential supervisors with their research interests who could offer a summer vacation project.

Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery

Name Research interests Email
Professor Alessio Ciulli Chemical and Structural Biology of Targeted Protein Degradation [email protected]
Professor Kevin Read Drug discovery, lead optimisation and preclinical development [email protected]
Dr Mattie Christine Pawlowic Cryptosporidium, molecular parasitology, drug discovery [email protected]
Professor Susan Wyllie Kinetoplastid Biology [email protected]
Dr Beatriz Baragana Delivering effective and safe treatments for malaria, cryptosporidiosis and schistosomiasis exploiting novel biological pathways. [email protected]
Dr Manu De Rycker Drug discovery for infectious diseases, development of cell-based screening cascades and understanding of persisters in infectious diseases [email protected]
Dr William Farnaby Discover novel chemical tools to understand and address CNS diseases [email protected]
Professor Ulrich Zachariae Computational Biophysics and Drug Discovery [email protected]
Dr Peter Cossar Developing chemical tools to tackle key questions in molecular biophysics and chemical biology [email protected]
Professor David Horn Neglected Tropical Diseases caused by trypanosomes [email protected]
Professor Mahmood Ahmed Medicinal Chemistry for Drug Discovery [email protected]
Dr Laura Cleghorn Identifying novel candidates to potentially become new therapies for Tuberculosis (TB) [email protected]
Professor Marcus Lee Understanding antimalarial drug resistance and the validation of new drug targets [email protected]

Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology

Name Research interests Email
Dr David Murray Understanding the basic molecular mechanics in the formation of sub-cellular structures [email protected]
Professor Ronald Hay Role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in transcriptional regulation [email protected]
Professor Tom Owen-Hughes Chromatin structure and gene regulation [email protected]
Dr Fede Pelisch Mechanisms of Meiotic Chromosome Segregation and its Regulation by Post-Translational Modifications [email protected]
Professor Liz Miller Protein quality control and secretion [email protected]
Professor Jens Januschke Dynamics of cell polarisation [email protected]
Dr Tony Ly Proliferation control in health and disease [email protected]
Professor Tomoyuki Tanaka Mechanisms ensuring proper chromosome segregation in mitosis [email protected]
Professor Angus Lamond Nuclear structure proteomics and gene expression [email protected]
Dr Wataru Kobayashi Epigenetic reprogramming in early mammalian development [email protected]
Dr Leeanne McGurk How does RNA biogenesis control motor neuron disease? [email protected]
Professor Kees Weijer Cell-cell signalling and chemotactic cell movement during development [email protected]

Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology

Name Research interests Email
Professor Simon Arthur Signaling networks that control inflammation [email protected]
Dr Henry McSorley Immunological interactions with helminth parasites [email protected]
Professor Doreen Cantrell T-lymphocyte signal transduction [email protected]
Dr Andy Howden understanding how immune cells sense and respond to their environment and regulate core cellular processes [email protected]
Professor Nicola Ternette The Antigen Discovery Group: Uncovering targetable HLA antigens shaped by disease and evolution [email protected]
Dr Amy Lloyd Understanding the role of microglia in neurodegenerative diseases [email protected]

Division of Computational Biology

Name Research interests Email
Professor Geoffrey Barton Protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis and function prediction [email protected]
Professor Rastko Sknepnek Computational soft condensed matter and biophysics [email protected]
Dr Hajk Drost Digital Biology and Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences [email protected]
Dr Gabriele Schweikert Computational epigenomics [email protected]

MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit

Name Research interests Email
Professor Dario Alessi Professor Alessi is a biochemical engineer whose research focuses on opening up our understanding of human health and disease. Much of his current work focuses on understanding a gene involved in Parkinson’s called LRRK2 and aims to exploit findings on this to develop improved ways to better diagnose and treat the disease. [email protected]
Dr Greg Findlay Embryonic Stem Cell Signaling Modules [email protected]
Professor Miratul Muqit Elucidation of the PINK1 signaling pathway in Parkinson’s disease [email protected]
Dr Esther Sammler Parkinson’s disease [email protected]
Professor Gopal Sapkota Untangling the TGFβ and Wnt signalling networks in cells, development and human diseases [email protected]
Dr Amos Liang Understanding the fundamental pathway, endoplasmic reticulum-specific autophagy [email protected]
Professor John Rouse Control of chromosome stability and DNA repair in health and disease [email protected]
Dr Kirby Swatek Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in the immune system [email protected]
Professor Sir Philip Cohen Signaling Networks in the Innate Immune System [email protected]
Professor Yogesh Kulathu Signal transduction mediated by the posttranslational modification of proteins in the maintenance of protein and cellular homeostasis [email protected]
Dr Adrien Rousseau Signalling pathways controlling proteasome homeostasis [email protected]
Dr Chiara Maniaci “Cleave-to-Modify”: Illuminating the “dark proteome” with novel chemical biology tools [email protected]
Professor Ian Ganley Molecular analysis of autophagy [email protected]
Dr Mahima Swamy Immune interactions at the intestinal epithelium [email protected]
Professor Satpal Virdee Chemical Biology Approaches for Studying The Ubiquitin System [email protected]

Division of Molecular Microbiology

Name Research interests Email
Professor Nicola Stanley-Wall Understanding the molecular mechanism of biofilm formation [email protected]
Professor Helge Dorfmueller Investigation of streptococcal cell wall biogenesis and glycoconjugate vaccine development [email protected]
Professor Sarah Coulthurst Microbial competition and bacterial protein secretion systems [email protected]
Dr Varsha Singh Understanding olfaction in development and disease, olfactory GPCRs in C. elegans and swarming in bacteria [email protected]
Dr Megan Bergkessel Regulatory mechanisms operating during bacterial growth arrest and persistence [email protected]
Dr Daniel Neill Host-pathogen interactions and bacterial adaptations to the respiratory tract environment [email protected]

Division of Genome Integrity

Name Research interests Email
Professor Karim Labib Chromosome replication and genome integrity [email protected]
Dr Constance Alabert DNA replication in the context of chromatin – Implications for human diseases [email protected]
Dr Agostina Bertolin DNA-end Homeostasis in Health and Disease [email protected]
Professor Adrian Saurin [email protected]

Division of Plant Sciences

Name Research interests Email
Dr Jorunn Bos Understanding how aphids and plants interact at the molecular level [email protected]
Dr Davide Bulgarelli Structure, function and host control of the plant microbiota [email protected]
Dr Piers Hemsley Regulation of protein function in plants by S-acylation [email protected]
Dr Didier Ndeh Understanding the genetic and molecular basis of complex glycan metabolism and function in health and disease [email protected]
Professor Paul Birch Plant pathogen interactions [email protected]
Professor Ingo Hein Plant Pathogen Co-evolution [email protected]
Dr Sarah McKim Developmental biology of plant architecture [email protected]
Dr Martin Balcerowicz Dr Balcerowicz is a plant molecular biologist with a specific interest in how plants perceive and react to their environment, particularly to light and temperature signals. His areas of expertise include plant development, plant genetics, light signalling, temperature sensing and plant responses to climate change. [email protected]
Dr Claudia Martinho Climate-induced memory and inheritance in plants [email protected]