Our staff in Experimental Medicine and Biomedicine

Academic staff

Members of experimental Medicine and Biomedicine
Name	Role
Professor Adele Fielding	Head of Experimental Medicine and Biomedicine Professor of Haematology
Professor Dimitris Lagos	Director of Research and Professor of Immunology
Dr Aziz Asghar	Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Dr Gavin Barlow	Senior Clinical Lecturer in Infection
Dr Heidi Baseler	Senior Lecturer in Imaging Sciences
Professor Richard Gale	Professor of Ophthalmology
Dr Allison Green	Professor in Immunology
Dr Rachel Harry	Lecturer in Immunology (T&S)
Professor Paul Kaye	Professor of Immunology
Dr Ioannis Kourtzelis	Lecturer in Immunology
Dr Marika Kullberg	Senior Lectuer in Immunology
Professor Charles Lacey	Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Dr Elmarie Myburgh	Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Immunology and Infection
Dr Natalie Prow	Research Fellow in Vaccinology
Professor Tarl Prow	Director, Skin Research Centre
Dr Paul Pryor	Senior Lecturer in Cellular Microbiology
Dr Nathalie Signoret	Senior Lecturer in Immunology
Professor Marjan van der Woude	Professor of Microbiology
Professor Gavin Wright	Professor in Microbial Biochemistry
Dr Damian Perez Mazliah	Independent Research Fellow

Affiliated clinical staff

Affiliated clinical staff
Name	Role
Professor Philip Beer	Honorary Professor of Translational Medicine
Professor Alison Layton	Consultant Dermatologist and Associate Medical Director for Research and Development, Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust. Honorary Professor, Hull York Medical School

Postdoctoral Scientists and Fellows

Postdoctoral scientists and fellows
Name	Funder	Principal Investigator
Dawei Chen	Diabetes UK	Dr Allison Green
Nidhi Dey	MRC GCRF	Professor Paul Kaye
Mohamed Osman	MRC GCRF	Professor Paul Kaye
Mia Shandell	MRC Confidence in Concept	Professor Dimitris Lagos

Technical staff

Technical staff
Name	Funder	Role
Najmeeyah Brown	Wellcome Trust
Helen. Ashwin	MRC/DFID
Liz Greensted	MRC GCRF & MRC/DFID	Project Manager
Rebecca Wiggins	Wellcome Trust	Project Manager

PhD students

Name: Shoumit Dey
Funder: Wellcome Trust
Supervisors: Professor Dimitris Lagos (principal supervisor), Jon Pitchford (co-supervisor, Biology/Maths)
Title: Macrophage population diversity as a determinant of primary and secondary responses to LPS

Name: Joshua Lee
Funder: iCASE BBSRC DTP
Supervisors: Professor Dimitris Lagos (principal supervisor), James Hewitson (co-supervisor, Biology), Dan Turner (co-supervisor, Oxford Nanopore Technologies)
Title: Probing the immune epitranscriptome

Name: Zoe Richmond-Mynett
Funder: Hull York Medical School
Supervisors: Dr Nathalie Signoret (principal supervisor), Christoph Baumann (co-supervisor, Biology)
Title: Membrane effects of bacterial lipoteichoic acid (LTA) on chemokine receptors.

Name: Vivak Parakash
Funder: MRC GCRF
Supervisor: Professor Paul Kaye
Title: Human challenge model of leishmaniasis (co-supervised with Professor Charles Lacey)

Name: Caroline Pearson
Funder: BBSRC
Supervisors: Professor Marjan van der Woude (principal supervisor), G Thomas (co-supervisor)
Title: Biological Role and Structure Function Analyses of O Antigen Modifying Enzymes in the Bacterial Pathogen Salmonella

Name: Gulab Rani
Funder: Kyber Medical University / Higher Education Committee of Pakistan
Supervisor: Professor Paul Kaye
Title: Mechanisms of thrombocytopenia in experimental leishmaniasis

Name: Sarah Rixham
Funder: Wellcome Trust
Supervisors: Professor Marjan van der Woude (principal supervisor), J. Wood (co-supervisor)
Title: Quantitative investigation of contact inhibition from single cell to microcolony level

Name: Kate West
Funder: BBSRC DTP
Supervisors: Professor Dimitris Lagos (principal supervisor), Dawn Coverley (co-supervisor, Biology)
Title: Understanding lncRNA function in immune cells

Co-supervised PhD students

Name: Alina Capatina
Funder: BBSRC DTP
Supervisors: Will Brackenbury (principal supervisor, Biology), Professor Dimitris Lagos (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Regulation of cellular metabolism and intercellular communication by sodium signaling

Name: Helen Davies
Funder: Wellcome Trust
Supervisors: D O'Connell, Physics (principal supervisor), Professor Marjan van der Woude (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Low Temperature Air Plasmas for Wound Healing Applications

Name: Lara Dresser
Funder: ICASE BBSRC DTP
Supervisors: Professor Mark Leake (main supervisor, Biology/Physics), Dr Nathalie Signoret (co-supervisor) and Dr Mike Shaw (National Physical Laboratory, co-supervisor)
Title: Developing next generation bioimaging/biophotonics tools to dissect the immunological synapse in single cells, one molecule at a time

Name: J. Ferguson
Supervisors: Y Hancock, Physics (principal supervisor), Professor Marjan van der Woude (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Utilising Raman Spectroscopy for Characterisation and Investigation into the Antimicrobial Properties of Graphene

Name: Jenny Hayes
Funder: ICASE BBSRC DTP
Supervisors: Dr Martin Fascione (main supervisor, chemistry), Prof Gideon Grogan (co-supervisor, chemistry), Dr Nathalie Signoret (co-supervisor) and Prozomix (industrial partner)
Title: Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering (MOE) using Sortases.

Name: Scott Jackson
Supervisors: V Chechik Chemistry, D O'Connell, Physics (principal supervisors), Professor Marjan van der Woude (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Low temperature plasma chemistry

Name: Laetitia Raynal
Funder: Rosetrees Trust
Supervisors: Chris Spicer (principal supervisor, Chemistry), Professor Dimitris Lagos (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Increasing the potency of biomaterials for tissue growth

Name: Benjamin Rowlinson
Funder: BBSRC DTP
Supervisors: Michael Plevin (principal supervisor, Biology), Professor Dimitris Lagos (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Unravelling the structural biology of the LIMD1 scaffold protein using novel NMR approaches

Name: Alexander Scott
Funder: BBSRC
Supervisors: C Baumann, Biology; D O'Connell, Physics (principal supervisor), Professor Marjan van der Woude (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Investigating the mechanism of bactericidal killing by Low Temperature Plasma

Name: Sarah Tindall
Funder: BBSRC
Supervisors: J Potts, Biology, G Thomas, Biology (principal supervisor), Professor Marjan van der Woude (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Structural analysis of acyltransferase proteins involved in lipopolysaccharide modifications

Name: Danielle Varley
Funder: Department of Health Sciences
Supervisors: Professor Christina van der Feltz Cornelis (principal supervisor, Helath Sciences/Hull York Medical School), Professor Dimitris Lagos (co-supervisor)
PhD title: Increasing the potency of biomaterials for tissue growth