Summer lab-based traineeship supervisors in Life Sciences

The following supervisors are offering places to summer students of the Vacation Scholarship Programme.

Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery

Name	Research interests
Professor Alessio Ciulli	Chemical and Structural Biology of Targeted Protein Degradation
Professor David Gray	Molecular Pharmacology and Compound Screening
Professor Kevin Read	Drug discovery, lead optimisation and preclinical development
Dr Mattie Christine Pawlowic	Cryptosporidium, molecular parasitology, drug discovery
Professor Susan Wyllie	Kinetoplastid Biology
Dr Beatriz Baragana	Delivering effective and safe treatments for malaria, cryptosporidiosis and schistosomiasis exploiting novel biological pathways.
Dr Chiara Maniaci	“Cleave-to-Modify”: Illuminating the “dark proteome” with novel chemical biology tools
Dr Manu De Rycker	Drug discovery for infectious diseases, development of cell-based screening cascades and understanding of persisters in infectious diseases

Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology

Name	Research interests
Professor Kim Dale	Investigating the role of Notch signalling in building the body plan
Dr David Murray	Understanding the basic molecular mechanics in the formation of sub-cellular structures
Dr Constance Alabert	DNA replication in the context of chromatin – Implications for human diseases
Professor Ronald Hay	Role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in transcriptional regulation
Professor Tom Owen-Hughes	Chromatin structure and gene regulation
Dr Fede Pelisch	Mechanisms of Meiotic Chromosome Segregation and its Regulation by Post-Translational Modifications

Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology

Name	Research interests
Professor Simon Arthur	Signaling networks that control inflammation
Dr Henry McSorley	Immunological interactions with helminth parasites

Division of Computational Biology

Name	Research interests
Professor Geoffrey Barton	Protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis and function prediction

MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit

Name	Research interests
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.
Dr Paul Davies
Dr Greg Findlay	Embryonic Stem Cell Signaling Modules
Professor Miratul Muqit	Elucidation of the PINK1 signaling pathway in Parkinson’s disease
Dr Esther Sammler	Parkinson’s disease
Professor Gopal Sapkota	Untangling the TGFβ and Wnt signalling networks in cells, development and human diseases
Dr Amos Liang	Understanding the fundamental pathway, endoplasmic reticulum-specific autophagy
Professor John Rouse	Control of chromosome stability and DNA repair in health and disease
Professor Karim Labib	Chromosome replication and genome integrity
Dr Kirby Swatek	Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins in the immune system
Professor Sir Philip Cohen	Signaling Networks in the Innate Immune System
Professor Yogesh Kulathu	Signal transduction mediated by the posttranslational modification of proteins in the maintenance of protein and cellular homeostasis
Dr Adrien Rousseau	Signalling pathways controlling proteasome homeostasis

Division of Molecular Microbiology

Name	Research interests
Professor Nicola Stanley-Wall	Understanding the molecular mechanism of biofilm formation
Dr Helge Dorfmueller	Investigation of streptococcal cell wall biogenesis and glycoconjugate vaccine development
Professor Sarah Coulthurst	Microbial competition and bacterial protein secretion systems
Dr Varsha Singh	Understanding olfaction in development and disease, olfactory GPCRs in C. elegans and swarming in bacteria

Division of Plant Sciences

Name	Research interests
Dr Jorunn Bos
Dr Davide Bulgarelli	Structure, function and host control of the plant microbiota
Dr Piers Hemsley	Regulation of protein function in plants by S-acylation
Dr Didier Ndeh

James Hutton Institute

Name	Research interests
Tracy Valentine
Runxuan Zhang