Our Team

In chronological order of joining lab.


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Peter Thorpe

Peter completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh with Noreen Murray studying viral restriction. He undertook post-doctoral training with David Porteous, also at the University of Edinburgh and Rodney Rothstein, at Columbia University, New York studying genetic recombination and kinetochore function. In 2011 he started his own laboratory at the National Institute of Medical Research in London, which later became the Francis Crick Institute. In 2018 the lab moved to East London to the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London.

E-mail: p [dot] thorpe [at] qmul [dot] ac [dot] uk

Teaching: Peter teaches Biochemistry and Biomedicine to undergraduate and post-graduate Master’s courses. Including:

Essential Skills for Biochemists.
Biochemistry Communication
Molecular Basis of Disease
Metabolic Pathways
Essential Biochemistry for Human Life
Advanced Biochemical Research Methods (Master’s)

Support: Peter is the Deputy Dean for Research Impact for the Science and Engineering faculty at Queen Mary University of London.

 

Guy Mercer

Guy is a NERC-funded PhD student who is studying the effects of pesticides upon pollinators (with a little work in yeast). Much of his work is undertaken in the excellent Insect Cognition Laboratory lead by Eli Leadbetter at the Royal Holloway University of London.

Fozia Akhtar

Fozia is a PhD student who works on cellular ageing and is supervised in part by Fabrice Caudron at the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpelier.

 

Akraam Ali

Akraam is a PhD student who studies the role of inner kinetochore proteins with a focus on comparative studies between different yeast species.

 

Alexander Shoebottom

Alexander is an undergraduate student studying Biochemistry. He is completing his final year project in the Thorpe lab.

 

Ieva Jonusaite

Ieva is an undergraduate student studying biochemistry. She is completing her final year project in the Thorpe lab.

 

Rishi Chandrakumar

Rishi is an undergraduate student studying biochemistry. Rishi is completing his final year PhD project in the Thorpe lab.

 

Caitlin Mellor

Caitlin is a Ph.D. student funded by the BBSRC AI for Drug Discovery programme. She completed an undergraduate degree in Biomedicine at the University of East Anglia. She is using mathematical modeling to understand how mitosis is regulated. Her focus is on using models to understand how post-translational modification of proteins - notably phosphorylation - affects progression through mitosis.

Alumni - These are past members of the lab

In chronological order of leaving the lab…

  1. Erika Aquino - Sandwich student

  2. Eleanor Bellows - Sandwich student

  3. Sonia Stinus - Placement student

  4. Eva Herrero - Post doctoral research fellow

  5. Elena Ledesma-Fernández - PhD student

  6. Mathilde Fousier - Placement student

  7. Dorine Thobois - Placement student

  8. Alex Becalick - Sandwich student

  9. Léa Bouton - Placement student

  10. Ilona Tyré - Placement student

  11. Lisa Berry - Technician

  12. Wenjun Guo - PhD student

  13. Robin Hayes - Placement student

  14. Stephanie Addo-Boadu - Master’s student

  15. Zi Han Ooi - Master’s student

  16. Guðjón Ólafsson - PhD student/post doctoral fellow

  17. Rowan Howell - PhD student

  18. Suhana Yasmin - Placement student

  19. Aleria Aleshinloye - Placement student

  20. Adaeze Awogu - Placement student

  21. Mara Torres - Master’s student

  22. Xinhui Chew - Master’s student

  23. Henry Wood - Technician

  24. Cinzia Klemm - PhD student

  25. Maisie Gibson - Placement student

  26. Anonna Chowdhury - Placement student

  27. Nazrin Ali - Master’s student

  28. Samiha Tahsin - Master’s student

  29. Basien Boulet - Placement student

  30. Phoebe Beechinor - Placement student

  31. Khushali Brahmbhatt - Placement student

  32. Abigail Laderman - Placement student

  33. Cléo Thury - Placement student

  34. Grace Heredge Thomas - PhD student