PhD students
PhD Students (2021/22)
Chloe Cheng
PhD student
Thesis Title: Mapping the Emergence of Synapses in the Brain Primary theme: Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Franklin supervisors: Dr Mark […]
Niamh Morris
PhD student
Thesis Title: Autonomous phenotype-directed discovery of chemical probes Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Franklin supervisors: Prof Adam Nelson and Dr […]
Emily Barot
PhD student
Thesis Title: Time-resolved imaging of biomolecules using liquid-cell TEM Primary theme: Correlated Imaging Franklin Supervisors: Dr Emanuela Liberti, Dr Judy […]
Ben Gaunt
PhD student
Thesis Title: Combining Ptychography and EDX to investigate cubosome internalisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Franklin supervisors: Judy Kim, Chen Huang […]
Natalie Nord
PhD student
Thesis Title: Improving cryo-electron ptychography for bioimaging Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Secondary Theme: Artificial Intelligence & Informatics and Structural Biology […]
Nikolai Juraschko
PhD student
Thesis Title: Combining MD simulations with ML approaches to facilitate the morphological classification of Chlamydia from cryo-ET data Primary Theme: […]
Bronwen Foster
PhD student
Thesis title: Electron cryo-tomography of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons to study structural changes in Alzheimer’s disease Primary […]
Helena Watson
PhD student
Thesis Title: The molecular basis of antiviral defence in bacteria Primary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin supervisor: Professor Jim Naismith University: […]
Nadisha Gamage
PhD student
Thesis Title: Structural investigation of chromatin reprogramming and organisation in development Primary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin Supervisor: Professor James Naismith […]
PhD Students (2022/23)
Ellen Reed
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating the contribution of glycan interactions in extracellular vesicle internalisation and propagation of pathological tau in human tauopathies […]
Lara Fragapane
PhD Student
Thesis title: Solving the mysteries of human protein N-glycosylation: The Early Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharide Synthesis Pathway Primary Themes: Structural Biology and Next Generation […]
Jack Bercovici
PhD Student
Thesis title: Photodroplets: A Light-Controllable Method Of Unpicking Phase Separation Biology Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Secondary theme: Structural Biology […]
Katie Beirns
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating mitochondrial dynamics using liquid phase electron microscopy methods. Primary Theme: Correlated imaging. Secondary themes: Structural biology and Biological Mass […]
Becky Csöndör
PhD Student
Thesis title: Probing the molecular impact of Tau pathology on synaptic integrity Primary Theme: Structural Biology Secondary Theme: Mass Spectrometry […]
Tia É Hawkins
PhD Student
Thesis title: Understanding the GAG reflex: how glycosaminoglycans interact with Nipah virus to differently perturb its infectivity Primary Theme: Next […]
Angharad Smith
PhD Student
Thesis title: Developing Tools to Study In Situ Crystallisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging and Structural Biology Franklin supervisors: Dr Marcus Gallagher-Jones and Dr Maud […]
Joe Thrush
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating the Membrane Fusion events of Nipah Virus using Advanced Light Microscopy and Cryo-Electron Microscopy. Primary theme: Structural […]
Jess Stone
PhD Student
Thesis title: Correlative light and electron microscopy to investigate the cytotoxic T-cell mediated anti-tumour response. Franklin Themes: Correlated Imaging and Structural […]
PhD Students (2023/24)
Richon Blake
PhD Student
Richon attended Imperial College London where he graduated with a bachelors in Biochemistry. During his final year, Richon embarked in […]
Jack Bromley
PhD Student
Jack did both his undergraduate BSc and postgraduate MSc(Res) degrees at the University of St Andrews. During his master’s project, […]
Xuemeng Chen
PhD Student
Xuemeng obtained her BSc degree in Biosciences from the University of Birmingham and completed her MRes in Structural and Molecular […]
James Conway
PhD Student
James graduated from the University of Warwick with an integrated master’s in Biomedical Science. For his master’s project, he investigated […]
Dimitrios Ioannidis
PhD Student
Dimitrios graduated with a MRes in Medical and Molecular Biosciences from Newcastle University where he also obtained his BSc in […]
Kostantina Karagianni
PhD Student
Kostantina graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry at University of Bath in 2023. She also completed a professional placement year […]
Aparajita Karmakar
PhD Student
Aparajita has completed her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Master’s degree in Data Science. Throughout her academic journey, she […]
Ana Katsini
PhD Student
Ana studied Applied Biological Sciences at the University of Stirling. Her final year project focused on investigating novel drugs for […]
Ellie Tardo
PhD Student
Ellie completed a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Essex, with a final year project focusing on structural bioinformatics. […]
Alexander Wilkes
PhD Student
Alex graduated from the University of Reading with a BSc in Biochemistry and MRes in Biomedicine. Before joining the Franklin, […]