Dr. Bilge Argunhan Bilge was a QMUL student who performed a genetic screen to identify novel mutants affecting metal homeostasis in Drosophila. Co-author in FEBS Open Biology. Continued for his PhD at University of Sussex and for a postdoc at the University of Tokyo. He is presently a Marie-Curie Fellow at Imperial College.
Mr. Rohil Goutam – QMUL student: in vivo imaging of ferritin subunits. Presently an Optometrician in London.
Ms. Sonia Hamza – Master’s student project from University Aix-Marseille in France: The effect of iron homeostasis on fungal pathogenicity.
Ms. Tharse Pathmanathan - Undergraduate student of Biomedical Sciences: working on the characterization of a novel Drosophila melanogaster mutant, which confers male infertility in trans with heterozygous mutants of either ferritin or mitoferrin genes. Continued and received a Masters in my laboratory at the CINVESTAV. She is presently teaching at secondary education in the London area.
Ms. Katarina Voglervisiting graduate from the University of Innsbruck who analyzed the role of multicopper oxidases in copper and iron homeostasis in Drosophila.
Academic Year 2009-2010
Dr. Lucia BettediLucia was an Erasmus exchange student from the University of Ferrara, Italy and later returned to the lab with a Leonardo da Vinci placement. She studied the impact of dietary copper on iron homeostasis and contributed to various publications in the lab; first author of our first paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Lucia subsequently received a Ph.D. from University College London. Presently a post-doc with Dr. Mary Lilly at the NICHD, Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Mohamad F. Aslam Mohamad was a QMUL student investigating the function of Malvolio (proposed divalent metal transporter homologue) in Drosophila. He co-authored our paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Graduate of Medical Genetics continuing his research on the interaction between multicopper oxidase 3 and divalent metal transporter 1 mutants and cloning the ferritin genomic locus for in vitro mutagenesis. Received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Presently a postdoc with Dr. Paul Sharp at King’s College London.
Dr. Maryam Sadraie Undergraduate student of Medical Genetics: pioneered work on metal homeostasis in different species of Drosophilidae. Maryam published her work in Biometals and continued for a Masters of Research in Reproductive Biology at Edinburgh University and a PhD at the University of Kent. Presently a teacher of Biology in London.
