Our team

Principal investigators

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Jacob Lewis

Senior Lecturer

Cryo-electron microscopy, Chromosome duplication, DNA repair

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Lisanne Spenkelink

Senior Research Fellow

Single-molecule visualisation, DNA replication, Directed evolution, Biosensing

Laboratory manager

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Nicholas Kusi-Appauh

Laboratory Operations Manager

G-quadruplexes, DNA replication, Single-molecule visualisation

Postdoctoral researchers

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Jordan Cater

Associate Research Fellow

Protein engineering, Molecular evolution

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Thilini Munasinghe

Associate Research Fellow

Mitochondrial DNA replication, Therapeutic targets, Global health

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Jordan Nicholls

Associate Research Fellow

DNA replication, Cryo-electron microscopy, Single-molecule visualisation

PhD students

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Declan Fisher

PhD student

DNA lesions, DNA replication, Cryo-electron microscopy

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Will Heaton

PhD student

Cryo-electron microscopy, Grid development, Nanobodies

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Callum King

PhD student

Directed evolution, Diagnostics, Nanobodies

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Tran Le

PhD student

Biomarkers, Nanobodies, Single-molecule diagnostics

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Via Rigoli

PhD student

Directed evolution, DNA polymerases, Bioremediation

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Sankavi Thaveenthiran

PhD student

Human mitochondrial replication, DNA polymerases, Cryo-EM

Alumni

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Conall Mc Guinness

Postdoctoral researcher

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Stefan Mueller

Postdoctoral researcher

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Nirukshan Shanmugam

Postdoctoral researcher

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Nischal Sharma

PhD student

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Elise Wilkinson

PhD student

DNA supercoiling, Single-molecule visualisation