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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, […]

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