Our Dynamic Molecular Cell Biology students

• Jack Collier
  Investigating RNA Polymerase II CTD phosphorylation and its role in transcription regulation with Alan Cheung.
• Beck Chatwin
  Investigation of the influence of circadian rhythm on bone repair, regeneration and ageing with Chrissy Hammond.

• Kincaid Ingram
  Investigating the influence of the endolysosomal network in Alzheimer’s disease with Pete Cullen.
• Neve Prowting
  Investigating the role of autophagy in regulating cell fate outcomes in the breast with Bethan Lloyd Lewis and Jon Lane.

• Shreya L. Balaji
  Molecular characterization of the human DNA repair factor CtIP and its interactions with DNA and partner proteins with with Mark Dillingham.
• Beth Dean
  Defining the relationship between the mTORC1-autophagy pathway and focal adhesions with Berni Carroll.

• Henry "Harry" Young
  Investigation into the effects of elevated oxidative stress on wound healing in vivo using Drosophila with Helen Weavers.
• Anne George
  Investigating how inflammatory cells influence nerves, melanocytes, and adipocytes in wound healing with Paul Martin.

• Tom MacVicar
  Dysfunctional mitochondria and novel protein involvement in mitophagy with Jon Lane (2009-2013) - he was awarded a prestigous EMBO fellowship to postdoc with Thomas Langer in Cologne.
• Laura Carney
  Temporal and spatial dynamics of IL-10 expression in a peripheral tolerance model of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) with David Wraith (2009-2014) - helped set up our "Careers outside Academia" workshops, and is now a trainee patent lawyer.
• Ian McGough
  Role of trafficking complex retromer in regulating the formation of Wnt morphogenic gradients with Pete Cullen (2008-2012) - now postdocing with JP Vincent at the Crick and looking to set up his own lab soon.
• Laura Dearden
  Nutrient sensitive transcriptomes in the Paraventricular Hypothalamus: Dynamic regulation and downstream physiology with Nina Balthasar (2009-2013) - she is now a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Institute of Metabolic Science.
• Jenny Batson
  Signalling mechanisms involved in prostate cancer cell migration following cell-cell collisions with Kate Nobes (2009-2014) - now Principal Scientist at Exonate Ltd, Nottingham.
• Jon Gillespie
  Investigating the molecular mechanisms that underlie learning and memory with James Hodge (2008-2012) - he undertook an internship at The Academy of Medical Sciences which convinced him that he wanted to be a clinician scientist. Currently undertaking his F2 training in glamorous Southend.
• Boris Simonetti
  SNX-BARs in endosomal sorting with Pete Cullen (2013-2017) - Boris is a Research Associate at Bristol.
• Sonam Gurung
  Synaptic plasticity of kainate receptors with Jeremy Henley (2014-2018) - now a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL.
• Dani Franchini
  Investigating functional and structural changes during mouse brain development with Mike Ashby (2015-2020) - now a Senior Research Associate in the Brain and Sleep Research Lab at Bristol.
• Natalia Jimenez-Moreno (with baby)
  Autophagy regulation in human midbrain dopaminergic neurons with Jon Lane (2015-2020) - now a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at The University of Edinburgh.

• Edward Shaw
  Eddie investigated DNA repair machinery with Anna Chambers and now he is training to be a patent attorney at a firm in Brighton.
• Beth Moyse
  Beth studied inflammation during zebrafish heart repair with Beck Richardson and now has a Client Manager role at Charles River Labs in Portishead.
• Lizzie Lawrence
  Lizzie investigated collagen 11 in osteoarthritis in zebrafish with Chrissy Hammond and is now working as a postdoctoral research associate in David Stephens' lab, in Bristol. She is investigating the role of TANGO1 and associated proteins in secretory pathway organisation and ECM secretion.
• James Daly
  James studied dynamic protein trafficking through the endosomal network with Pete Cullen (2016-2021), he has been awarded a Wellcome Early Career Award Fellowship to study the role of Neuropilin receptors in viral infections at King’s College London.
• Tiah Oates
  Studied macrophage behaviour in normal and patho-physiological erythropoiesis with Ash Toye. She then joined the Dr. Asme Boussahel research group in the school of Cellular and Molecular medicine at the University of Bristol as a postdoctoral researcher.
• Sam Dunkley
  He studied actin-dependent chromosome cohesion in mammalian eggs with Binyam Mogessie.