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Helena Watson

PhD student
Helena Watson
About

Thesis Title: Advances in cryo-electron tomography approaches for in situ structural biology

Primary Theme: Structural Biology

Franklin supervisor: Dr Michael Grange

University: University of Glasgow

University supervisors: Professor James Naismith, Dr Laura Spagnolo and Professor Malcolm White

Helena is a PhD student at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, focusing on advancing cryo-electron tomography through the development of new approaches for plasma FIB milling and cryo-ET data acquisition. She has applied these developments to a range of biological systems, including understanding the in situ mechanisms of bacterial anti-phage immune responses.

She holds an MBiochem (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, where she performed her Master’s research on ubiquitin signalling regulation proteins using NMR and biophysical techniques.

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