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Past Members: FAQ
SCIENTIFIC OFFICERS
INGE RECKMANN
Jan 1995 - Sept 2001 - Research Assistant at EMBL
Next and current position - Technician with Prof. Felix Wieland University of Heidelberg, Germany
Website - https://bzh.db-engine.de/default.asp?lfn=2241&fg=2335&fgItem=4297
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SIBYLLE SCHLEICH
June 2004 - Dec 2007 - Senior Scientific Officer at LRI, Cancer Research UK, London.
Next and current position - Research Technician with Dr Aurelio Teleman DFKZ, University of Heidelberg
Website - https://www.dkfz.de/en/signal-transduction-cancer/pages/lab_members.html
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THERESA HIGGINS
Sept 2001 - Aug 2015 - Principal Scientific Officer at LRI, Cancer Research UK, London.
Next position - Quadrant manager at Crick Institute
Current position - Science Services Manager at Crick
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JASMINE ABELLA
April 2015 - Oct 2017 - Principal Laboratory Research Scientist, at Crick Institute, London.
Next and current position - In Basel job hunting
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-abella/?originalSubdomain=uk
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ANTONIO POSTIGO
July 2008 - April 2018 - Principal Laboratory Research Scientist at LRI & Crick Institute, London
Next and current position - Head of Innovation at Psioxus Therapeutics Ltd, Oxford, UK
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-postigo-30639073/?originalSubdomain=uk
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PHD STUDENTS
SALLY CUDMORE - Graduated 1996 - EMBL
Thesis Title - Vaccinia virus assembly and motility
Next position - Postdoc with Tim Mitchison, UCSF, USA.
Current position - General Manager, APC, Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
Website - http://apc.ucc.ie/sally_cudmore/
FREDRICH FRISCHKNECHT - Graduated 1999 - EMBL
Thesis Title - Vaccinia virus mimics receptor tyrosine kinase signalling to achieve actin-based motility.
Next position - Postdoc with Robert Menard, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Current position - Professor for Integrative Parasitology in Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University.
Website - https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/Malaria-3-Frischknecht.100117.0.html
SABINE ROETTGER - Graduated 1999 - EMBL
Thesis Title - Dissecting the actin-based motility of vaccinia virus
Next position - Management consultancy, Germany
Current position - Franchise Director at Ethicon / Johnson & Johnson, Hamburg, Germany
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabine-roettger-3a043228/?originalSubdomain=de
BOYAN GARVALOV - Graduated 2002 - EMBL
Thesis Title - Characterisation of the novel focal adhesion protein Tes and of its interacting partner, Arp7A.
Next position - Postdoc with Frank Bradke, MPI-Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany.
Current position - Senior Scientist, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Website - https://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/mikrovaskulaere-biologie-und-pathobiologie/lab-members/
NIKI SCAPLEHORN - Graduated 2004 - EMBL / LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Subversion of both the actin and microtubule cytoskeletons during vaccinia virus infection.
Next position - Postdoc with Thomas Preat, CNRS-ESPCI, Paris, France.
Current position - Chief Life Sciences Editor, Nature Communications, London.
Website - https://www.nature.com/ncomms/about/editors
MARKUS ZETTL - Graduated 2004 - EMBL / LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Signalling of pathogens to the actin cytoskeleton
Next position - Postdoc with Matthew Freeman, MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK.
Current position - Director Immune-Oncology at Piers Pharmaceuticals Inc. Vienna, Austria.
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-zettl-2b62b910/
CERI EDWARDS - Graduated 2005 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - The roles of vaccinia virus proteins in kinesin-dependent microtubule transport
Next position - Research Manager, Translational Research, Cancer Research UK.
Current position - Project Leader (Drug Development), Cancer Research UK
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drceriedwards/?originalSubdomain=uk
JOAO CORDERIO - Graduated 2008 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Modulation of Rho GTPase signalling during vaccinia virus infection.
Next position - Postdoc with António Jacinto, University of Lisbon.
Current position - Health Law, Biolaw and Bioethics Researcher and Professor at the National School of Public Health, NOVA University Lisbon
Website - https://www.unl.pt/joao-cordeiro
INA WEISSWANGE - Graduated 2008 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Analysis of vaccinia virus actin tail nucleating complex dynamics.
Next position - Postdoc with Joachim Wittbrodt, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Current position - Researcher at Eupheria Biotech GmbH, Dresden, Germany.
XING (JUDY) CHEN - Graduated 2011 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Ena/VASP proteins interact directly with the WAVE complex.
Next position - Postdoc with Gareth Jones, King’s College London, UK.
CHARLOTTE DURKIN - Graduated 2012 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Vaccinia virus as a tool to study novel mechanisms of host cell contraction and blebbing.
Next position - Postdoc with David Holden, Imperial College London, UK
Current position - MRC Programme Manager for Translational research.
SARA DONNELLY - Graduated 2012 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Molecular dissection of a Nck:WIP:N-WASP signalling network.
Next position - Postdoc with Louis Hodgson, Albert Einstein, New York, USA.
Current position - Program Manager, Life Science Discussion Groups - ‎The New York Academy of Sciences.
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-donnelly-82430594/
ASHLEY HUMPHRIES - Graduated 2013 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Regulation of N-WASP-dependent actin polymerisation.
Next and Current position - Postdoc with Marek Mlodzik, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyhumphriesphd/
XENIA SNETKOV - Graduated 2015 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - The role of endocytic machinery during vaccinia virus egress and spread.
Next position - Laboratory Research Scientist in Way group Sept 2015 - July 2016
Current position - Postdoc with Clare Jolly, University College London, UK
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/xenia-snetkov-0b345092/?originalSubdomain=uk
Twitter - https://twitter.com/xeniasnetkov?lang=en
CHIARA GALLONI - Graduated 2016 - LRI Cancer Research UK
Thesis Title - Arp3 isoforms differentially regulate the activity of the Arp2/3 complex.
Next and Current position - Postdoc with Georgia Mavria, Leeds University, UK
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiara-galloni-phd-241849b7/?originalSubdomain=uk
JULIA PFANZELTER - Graduated 2018 - LRI Cancer Research UK and Francis Crick
Thesis Title - The role of septins during vaccinia virus spread
Next position - Laboratory Research Scientist in Way group Sept 2017 - Mar 2018
Current position - Postdoc with Stephan Grill, TU, Dresden, Germany
Website - http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/research/grill/
LESLEY SHEACH - Clinical Fellow - Graduated 2020 - Cancer Research UK accelerator award at the Francis Crick
Thesis Title - The Role of TBK1 in Vaccinia Virus Induced Cell Death
Next position - ST6 Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Barts Health NHS, UK
DAVIDE CARRA - Graduated 2021 - LRI Cancer Research UK and Francis Crick
Thesis Title - Analysis of the cellular properties of Arp3B containing Arp2/3 complexes
Next position - Laboratory Research Scientist in Way group May 2021- Dec 2021
Current position - Postdoc with Leonardo Morsut, USC, Los Angeles, USA
Website - https://morsutlab.usc.edu/leonardo-morsut/
POSTDOCS
VIOLAINE MOREAU - Nov 1996 - Aug 1999 Funding - Marie Curie EU / EMBL.
Next position - Assistant Professor with tenure, University of Bordeaux, France.
Current position - Team Leader (DR2 Inserm), Bordeaux Research in Translational Oncology, University of Bordeaux.
Website - https://bariton.u-bordeaux.fr/Research/Team-1-Liver-Cancer-and-Tumor-Invasion/Group-V.-Moreau
ASPASIA PLOUBIDOU - July 1998 - Sept 2003 Funding - Marie Curie EU / DFG / EMBL.
Next position - Group Leader, FLI-Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena, Germany.
Current position - Associated Group Leader, FLI-Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena, Germany.
Website - http://www.leibniz-fli.de/research/associated-research-groups/ploubidou/
FERRAN VALDERRAMA - Sept 2001 - Mar 2006 Funding - Marie Curie EU / LRI Cancer Research UK .
Next position - Postdoc with Anne Ridley, Randall Institute, King's College, London.
Current position - Head of Prostate Cancer Cell Biology Laboratory and Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, St George’s, University of London.
Website - https://www.sgul.ac.uk/research-profiles-a-z/ferran-valderrama
TIM NEWSOME - Sept 2001 - Sept 2006 Funding - EMBO / HSFPO / LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next position - Lecturer in Virology, School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Australia.
Current position - Senior Lecturer, School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney.
Website - http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/timothy.newsome.php
JIM SUTHERLAND - Jan 2002 - Jan 2005 Funding - Marie Curie EU / LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next position - Group Leader, CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao, Spain.
Current position - Research Assistant, CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao.
Website - https://www.cicbiogune.es/people/jsutherland
ANTONIO POSTIGO - Jan 2002 - Jan 2007 Funding - Marie Curie EU / LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next position - Postdoc with Geoff Smith, Dept of Virology, Imperial College London
Next position - Principal Laboratory Research Scientist in Way Lab since July 2008, Francis Crick Institute, London.
BATISTE BOEDA - Mar 2003 - Mar 2008 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next and current position - Independent INSERM position with Sandrine Etienne-Manneville, Institut Pasteur.
Website - https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/cell-polarity-migration-and-cancer/
MIKE REDD - Sept 2003 - Sept 2005 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next and current position - Research Assistant, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, USA
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-redd-7936b113/
YOSHIKI ARAKAWA - June 2005 - May 2007 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next position - Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University, Japan.
Current position - Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine.
Website - https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=bI8LAscAAAAJ&hl=en
MORAG MARTIN - June 2006 - Apr 2010 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next and current position - Research Strategy and Development Officer, University of Dundee, UK.
Website - https://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/impact/public-engagement/sls-public-engagement-team
MARK DODDING - Jan 2007 - Dec 2010 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next position - Group Leader, London Law Trust Medal Fellow (Jan 2011-Feb 2012) and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Randall Division, King's College, London (Feb 2012 - Oct 2017).
Current position - Senior Lecturer in Cell Biology, Biochemistry Dept. University of Bristol, UK
Website - http://www.bris.ac.uk/biochemistry/people/mark-p-dodding/index.html
NAOKO KOGATA - Apr 2008 - Sept 2009 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next position - Research Assistant with Beatrice Howard, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
Current position - Senior Laboratory Research Scientist in Way Lab since Oct 2017, Francis Crick Institute, London.
Website - https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/naoko-kogata
AMY RAMSDEN - Apr 2008 - May 2011 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next position - Associate Medical Writer, StemScientific, Lyndhurst, NJ, USA.
Current position - Scientific Director, StemScientific, Lyndhurst, NJ, USA.
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-ramsden-90671434
YUTAKA HANDA - Nov 2008 - Apr 2013 Funding - EMBO / JSPS / LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next position - Senior Research Scientist, Dept. Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Research Institute, National Centre for Global Health & Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Apr 2013 - Jan 2017
Current position - Medical Science Liaison, AbbVie GK, Tokyo, Japan.
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yutaka-handa-1a617359/?locale=en_US
JOE COCKBURN - Oct 2011 - Sept 2014 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next and current position - Lecturer in X-ray crystallography, The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Leeds University, UK.
Website - http://www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk/people/staff/staffpage.php?StaffID=JJBC
JASMINE ABELLA - Jan 2010 - Apr 2015 Funding - FRSQ / EMBO / CHIR.
Next position - Principal Laboratory Research Scientist, Way Lab, Francis Crick Institute, London.
Current position - In Basel job hunting.
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-abella/?originalSubdomain=uk
DAVID BARRY - Nov 2010 - Oct 2016 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK.
Next and current position - Senior Lab Research Scientist, Image Analyst in Light Microscopy facility, Crick Institute.
Website - https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/david-barry
FLAVIA LEITE - Jan 2014 - Jan 2019 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK and Francis Crick.
Next and current position - Head of Virus Services, IST, Vienna, Austria
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/flleite/
CAITLIN TOLBERT - Aug 2014 - Aug 2019 Funding - LRI Cancer Research UK and Francis Crick.
Next and current position - House Editor and Medical Writer at Niche Science & Technology Ltd, London, UK
Website - https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-tolbert-aaa43514/?originalSubdomain=uk
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