Researchers

Dr Helena Watson

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Helena Watson
About
Helena is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Rosalind Franklin Institute in Michael Grange’s group, working on methods development for in situ structural biology. After completing an MBiochem at the University of Oxford, she moved to the Rosalind Franklin Institute for her PhD.
Her work centres on advancing plasma FIB milling and cryo-ET data acquisition, with a particular interest in imaging larger cellular volumes by cryo-ET. She developed a multiscale cryo-ET imaging approach and is currently exploring the application of chromatic aberration-corrected TEM for cryo-ET.
Projects and Platforms

Large Volume Tomography

High resolution large volume tomography with electron microscopy has the potential to transform our understanding of life, by linking the atomic and molecular structure of protein complexes in their biological context – the cell.

Structural Neurobiology

Developing cutting edge techniques to image structures in the brain on the molecular scale so we can identify early structural changes leading to disease onset.