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PhD Students (2021/22)

Chloe Cheng

PhD student

Thesis Title: Mapping the Emergence of Synapses in the Brain Primary theme: Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Franklin supervisors: Dr Mark […]

Niamh Morris

PhD student

Thesis Title: Autonomous phenotype-directed discovery of chemical probes Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Franklin supervisors: Prof Adam Nelson and Dr […]

Emily Barot

PhD student

Thesis Title: Visualising ribosomes using liquid-phase electron microscopy Primary theme: Correlated Imaging Franklin Supervisors: Dr Judy Kim, Dr Lauren Eyssen […]

Ben Gaunt

PhD student

Thesis Title: Combining Ptychography and EDX to investigate cubosome internalisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Franklin supervisors: Dr Judy Kim, Dr […]

Natalie Nord

PhD student

Thesis Title: Improving cryo-electron ptychography for bioimaging Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Secondary Theme: Artificial Intelligence & Informatics and Structural Biology […]

Nikolai Juraschko

PhD student

Thesis Title: Combining MD simulations with ML approaches to facilitate the morphological classification of Chlamydia from cryo-ET data Primary Theme: […]

Helena Watson

PhD student

Thesis Title: The molecular basis of antiviral defence in bacteria Primary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin supervisor: Professor Jim Naismith and […]

Nadisha Gamage

PhD student

Thesis Title: Structural investigation of chromatin reprogramming and organisation in development Primary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin Supervisor: Professor James Naismith, […]

PhD Students (2022/23)

Ellen Reed

PhD Student

Thesis title: Investigating the contribution of glycan interactions in extracellular vesicle internalisation and propagation of pathological tau in human tauopathies […]

Lara Fragapane

PhD Student

Thesis title: Solving the mysteries of human protein N-glycosylation: The Early Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharide Synthesis Pathway Primary Themes: Structural Biology and Next Generation […]

Jack Bercovici

PhD Student

Thesis title: Photodroplets: A Light-Controllable Method Of Unpicking Phase Separation Biology​ Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Secondary theme: Structural Biology […]

Katie Beirns

PhD Student

Thesis title: Investigating mitochondrial dynamics using liquid phase electron microscopy methods. Primary Theme: Correlated imaging. Secondary themes: Structural biology and Biological Mass […]

Becky Csöndör

PhD Student

Thesis title: Probing the molecular impact of Tau pathology on synaptic integrity Primary Theme: Structural Biology Secondary Theme: Mass Spectrometry […]

Tia É Hawkins

PhD Student

Thesis title: Understanding the GAG reflex: how glycosaminoglycans interact with Nipah virus to differently perturb its infectivity Primary Theme: Next […]

Angharad Smith

PhD Student

Thesis title: Developing Tools to Study In Situ Crystallisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging and Structural Biology Franklin supervisors: Dr Marcus Gallagher-Jones and Dr Maud […]

Joe Thrush

PhD Student

Thesis title: Investigating the Membrane Fusion events of Nipah Virus using Advanced Light Microscopy and Cryo-Electron Microscopy. Primary theme: Structural […]

Jess Stone

PhD Student

Thesis title: Correlative light and electron microscopy to investigate the cytotoxic T-cell mediated anti-tumour response. Franklin Themes: Correlated Imaging and Structural […]

PhD Students (2023/24)

Richon Blake

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Creating an artificial metalloenzyme for site-specific protein modification Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Secondary Theme:  Structural Biology Franklin […]

Jack Bromley

PhD Student

Thesis Title: High-Resolution Mapping of the Bacterial Spore Coat Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Secondary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Franklin Supervisors: […]

Xuemeng Chen

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Biophysics of tight junction assembly and dysregulation​ Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Secondary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin Supervisors: […]

James Conway

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Probing Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Protein Translocation Impairments in Cholinergic Neurodegeneration of Synucleinopathies. Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Secondary Theme: Structural […]

Dimitrios Ioannidis

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Visualizing adhesion complexes in intestinal organoids via super-resolution STED Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Secondary Theme: Correlated Imaging […]

Kostantina Karagianni

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Solving the mysteries of human N-glycosylation: Role of RFT1 in the lipid-oligosaccharide translocation. Primary Theme:  Next Generation Chemistry […]

Aparajita Karmakar

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Using Machine Learning to Predict siRNA Gene Expression Knockdown Efficacy Primary Theme: Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Secondary Themes: […]

Ana Katsini

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Towards a Foundation Model for Accelerating Volumetric Cryo-image Segmentation Primary Theme: Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Secondary Theme: Structural […]

Ellie Tardo

PhD Student

Thesis Title: In vivo structural investigation of the TonB system via Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Primary Theme: Structural Biology Secondary […]

Alexander Wilkes

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Multi-modal Raman and mass spectrometry imaging for the identification of antibiotic resistant microbial biofilms and their underlying biomarkers. Primary Theme: […]

PhD Students (2024/25)

Ioanna Bezirtzoglou

PhD Student

Ioanna recently graduated from Imperial College London with an MRes degree in Drug Discovery and development. Her research focused on […]

Natasha Cooke

PhD Student

Natasha graduated with an Integrated Master’s in Biochemistry from the University of St Andrews. During her studies, she completed a […]

Minal Dayaram

PhD Student

Minal graduated from the University of Kent with a BSc in Biochemistry, including a Year in Industry. For her final […]

Clara Dieterle

PhD Student

Clara graudated from the University of Dundee with a M.Sc. in Applied Neuroscience, focussing in her Master’s project on characterizing […]

Gloria Gao

PhD Student

Gloria studied Chemistry at Wadham College, Oxford, focusing her Master’s project on investigating Mass Photometry’s precision in detecting low-mass proteins. […]

Haiyang He

PhD Student

Haiyang obtained his integrated Master’s degree in Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry and a Year in Industry from Imperial College London. […]

Rebecca Hobbs

PhD Student

Rebecca attended the University of Warwick where she graduated with an integrated master’s in Biomedical Science. During her master’s year, […]

Peter Hughes

PhD Student

Peter graduated from the University of Loughborough with an integrated masters in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry. His masters project focused […]

Aleyna Lumsden

PhD Student

Aleyna Lumsden studied Biomedical Sciences at the University of Warwick. During her integrated Master’s, she investigated the gene regulatory network […]

Michael Penny

PhD Student

Michael graduated from the University of Cardiff with an integrated Master’s in chemistry. After a year of working at Thermofisher […]

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