Lab members

Low lab
 

Dr Jayanti Singh

Research Associate | j.singh8@imperial.ac.uk

 
 Silhouette

Dr Souvik Naskar

Research Associate | s.naskar@imperial.ac.uk
Max Manley 

Dr Max Manley

Research Associate | max.manley16@imperial.ac.uk

Cell membranes separate the complex inner workings of the cell from its environment and are vital to life itself. Max aims to understand how bacteria remodel their cell membranes. His work focuses on bacterial dynamin-like protein and PspA, both of which have eukaryotic homologues. Thus, these proteins could reveal ancient conserved principles of membrane remodelling across all three kingdoms of life. Max studies these proteins using a combination of cryo-electron microscopy, biophysical and biochemical techniques.  

Alasdair Leeding

PhD student | a.leeding23@imperial.ac.uk

Bacteria can assemble complex, membrane-spanning macromolecular assemblies known as secretion systems. Secretion systems can secrete a diverse array of substrates and are critical to infection and biofilm formation in a number of pathogens. Focusing on the Tad (Tight Adherence) secretion system (TadSS), Alasdair aims to understand the mechanism by which the TadSS assembles and extrudes a pilus. His work combines methods in molecular biology, protein biochemistry and cryo-electron microscopy. 
Low lab members
Low lab members
Zhang lab
 

Dr Jie Zhang
Research Associate | jzhang13@ic.ac.uk

Jie used to work on influenza A viruses to understand the influence of virus evolution on its binding property using X-ray crystallography and bio-layer interferometry when she did her PhD in Francis Crick Institute. Currently, her projects mainly focus on studying BRCA2 and Tel1 related protein-protein interactions involved in DNA damage response pathway, using Cryo-EM and other biophysics methods. 

Dr Niranjan Kumar
Research Associate | niranjan.kumar@imperial.ac.uk

Niranjan is working on the dynamic modulation of RAD51 in homologous recombination through employing different biochemical, biophysical, and structural biology techniques. We are trying to understand the mechanistic details about how the fine tuning of different positive and negative regulators of RAD51 is essential for genome stability.

Prior to joining the Zhang lab as a post-doctoral research associate, Niranjan did his Ph.D. in structural biology from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India.

Dr Lucas Kuhlen
Research Associate | l.kuhlen@imperial.ac.uk, +44 07482 535 069

Lucas uses cryo-EM to study the structure of BRCA2.

Bowen Zhang

PhD student | bowen.zhang16@imperial.ac.uk
 

Pengtao Liang 

PhD student | bowen.zhang16@imperial.ac.uk
 

Lindsey Lee 

PhD student | yin.lee24@imperial.ac.uk

Megan Battley 

Research Technician | m.battley@imperial.ac.uk, +44 07565 811 189
Wigley lab

Adam J

Dr Adam Jalal

Research Associate | a.jalal@imperial.ac.uk

Adam earned his PhD from the John Innes Centre where he worked on the ParB/Noc family of CTPases. Currently, Adam's research focuses on chromatin remodelling by the INO80 family of proteins. 
 Dr Paul Girvan

Dr Paul Girvan
Research Associate | p.girvan@imperial.ac.uk

Paul has got experience in single molecule imaging and an interest in unpicking the molecular mechanisms of the cell. Currently, Paul is working on chromatin remodelling complexes.
Liz McCormack 

Liz McCormack
Senior Scientific Officer | e.mccormack@imperial.ac.uk, +44 020 7594 8437

Liz completed a BAppSci in Australia and a number of years later a part-time MSc in Biomolecular Organization at Birkbeck College. Liz worked at the Institute of Cancer Research for 14 years in Professor Keith Willison’s Lab before joining the Wigley Lab in 2011.
Valerie Good 

Valerie Good
Laboratory Manager | v.good@imperial.ac.uk, +44 07843 007 638

Valerie is the manager of the Structural Biology Baculovirus expression facility at Imperial College.
Wigley lab members
Freemont lab
Dr Kirsten Jensen 

Dr Kirsten Jensen

Senior Research Officer | k.jensen@imperial.ac.uk, +44 020 7594 3058

Kirsten has been working in research for over 20 years. She began her career in Hamburg at the Heinrich Pette Institute - Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, where she worked on the molecular basis of Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia 
 Richard Kelwick

Dr Richard Kelwick

RSE Enterprise Fellow | r.kelwick@imperial.ac.uk, +44 020 7594 3058, @rkelwick

Richard is a Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellow (2018-2019) and an entrepreneurially driven researcher, with expertise in both cancer biology and synthetic biology.
Alex Webb

Dr Alexander J. Webb

Research Associate | alexander.webb1@imperial.ac.uk, +44 020 7594 3058, @ajwebb1979

Alex is a Microbiologist with a research focus on engineering bioreporters for global health.
 

Dr Rory Cave 

Research Associate | r.cave@imperial.ac.uk
 

Thomas Adam

Research Assistant | thomas.adam19@imperial.ac.uk
 

Martin Tran

Research Assistant | martin.tran13@imperial.ac.uk

Martin is a Research Assistant working as part of the UK DRI Care Research and Technology Centre. Martin's main focus is on developing point of care diagnostics for early detection of Urinary Tract Infections for people living with Dementia.
 

Pedro Lovatt Garcia


PhD student | p.lovat-garcia21@imperial.ac.uk
Soo Mei 

Dr Soo Mei Chee

Laboratory Manager | s.chee@imperial.ac.uk, +44 020 7594 8556

Soo Mei is the Laboratory Manager for the Department of Infectious Disease.
Freemont lab members
Riglar lab
Dr David Carreno Yugueros 

Dr David Carreno Yugueros
Research Associate | d.carreno-yugueros@imperial.ac.uk

David holds a PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Currently he is investigating spatial variability within the mammalian gut microbiome during health and inflammatory disease at Riglar’s lab.
 

Gadea Meecham-Garcia
PhD student | g.meecham-garcia24@imperial.ac.uk

 

Will McKenny
PhD student | w.mckenny23@imperial.ac.uk

William is studying how to engineer bacteria to detect colorectal cancer for the stratification of immunotherapy. His work will also focus on how to translate synthetic biology from the lab into the clinic via the use of clinical datasets and samples.
Riglar lab
Manka lab

Thomas Trainer

PhD student | t.trainer@imperial.ac.uk
Krishna Kumar lab
 

Dr Witold Postek

Research Associate| w.postek@imperial.ac.uk
 

Dr Cameron Boggon 

Honorary Research Associate (Postdoc.Mobility Fellow)| c.boggon@imperial.ac.uk
 

Dr Jorin Rexinger

Research Associate| jorin.riexinger@univ.ox.ac.uk

 
 

Dr Inez Roegiers

Research Associate (HFSP Fellow) | i.roegiers24@imperial.ac.uk
 

Ella Ishmael

PhD student | e.ishmael24@imperial.ac.uk

 
 

Rohan Sekhri 

PhD student | r.sekhri23@imperial.ac.uk
 

Kush Desai

PhD student | kushaal.desai17@imperial.ac.uk

 
Rengachari lab
 

 
   
 

 

 
 

 
   
   
   

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