Michael Häusser
University College London. Michael Häusser earned his PhD from Oxford University under the supervision of Julian Jack. He subsequently worked with Nobel Laureate Bert Sakmann at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and with Philippe Ascher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He established his lab at UCL…
Juliette Fedry
MRC LMB. After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique (France) in 2013, Juliette did her PhD at Institut Pasteur Paris under the supervision of Felix Rey. Using X-ray crystallography and biochemical assays, she identified the ancient eukaryotic protein HAP2 as the first known gamete membrane fusion. In 2017, Juliette joined the cryo electron tomography…
Wendy Bickmore
MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh. Wendy Bickmore is Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, at the University of Edinburgh. Her undergraduate degree is in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and she then completed a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Edinburgh. Following a postdoc…
Kirsty Spalding
Karoliska Institutet. Kirsty Spalding received her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Western Australia, after which she completed a year as a Rotary Ambassadorial Academic Scholar at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Following her time as a postdoctoral fellow at the department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet (2002-2005),…
Thomas Lecuit
Collège de France (IBDM). Thomas Lecuit trained at the Ecole Normale Supérieur of Paris, did a PhD in developmental biology at EMBL in Heidelberg and received a postdoctoral training in cell biology at Princeton University with Eric Wieschaus. In 2001 he joined the the Institut de biologie du développement in…
Scott Waddell
Oxford University. Scott Waddell is Professor of Neurobiology in the Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour at the University of Oxford. Scott studies molecular, cellular and neural circuit mechanisms of memory and motivation using genetic approaches in Drosophila. His work has revealed extensive heterogeneity in the structure and function of the…
Lorenz Fenk
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany. Lorenz has broad interests in neural systems function, natural behaviour, and evolution. He completed undergraduate studies in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna, and undertook a doctorate with Mario de Bono at the MRC-LMB / University of Cambridge, studying chemosensory behaviours, their plasticity…
Alexander Stark
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP). In higher eukaryotes, genes are expressed dynamically in complex spatial and temporal patterns, which are progressively refined to set up body plans and define specific cell-types. The information about when and where each gene is to be expressed is encoded in the sequences of…
Tiago Costa
Imperial College London. Tiago Costa obtained his Biochemistry degree in Portugal, and after a short spell in the industry he started his PhD in 2007 at the University of Umeå, Sweden, where he studied the function of a crucial protein involved in Yersinia infection. In 2013, he joined the laboratory…
Judy Hirst
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (Cambridge, UK). Judy Hirst studied chemistry at Oxford and obtained a D. Phil. there studying mechanisms of electron transport in complex enzymes. Following postdoctoral work at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, she joined the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit to establish an independent research group…
