Dr. Rubina Aktar Rubina was a QMUL student who studied the regulation of ferritin expression by metal transcription factor, itself induced by zinc. Contributed to a publication in FEBS Letters. She moved to the Medical School at Queen Mary, University of London for her Ph.D.
Mr. Abhyuday Deshpande Adam was QMUL student who received a BBSRC summer student award to work on “Genetic mapping of the Drosophila melanogaster mutant allele responsible for ectopic expression of ferritin in the larval anal pads”. He also stayed in the lab for his final year project which contributed towards 2 publications in Biochemical Society Transactions and Biochimie. Adam continued to do a Ph.D. at Newcastle University. Presently a teacher of biology at Suzhou, China.
Ms. Christelle Durand Christelle was an international student from the Institut National de sciences appliquées in Toulouse, France, who worked on “Ferritin expression in wild type flies collected from various regions of Italy”. She then took up a Ph.D. at the University of Paris.
Dr. Nicanor Gonzalez Morales Nicanor was an undergraduate student from the Institute of Neurobiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico. He visited the lab for a summer internship working on the role of ferritin in Drosophila development. Nicanor received a prestigious fellowship from Mexico to undertake his Ph.D. studies at the University of Marseille in France. His work in my lab was published in PLoS ONE. Nicanor did his postdoc at McGill University with Dr. Frieder Schöck and is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University.
Dr. Lucia GutiérrezLucia spent six months in the lab developing a multidisciplinary approach to study the iron proteome. She then accepted a fellowship to work at the Material Sciences Institute in Madrid and is presently a Ramon y Cajal fellow at the University of Zaragoza. Her work was published in Metallomics. Lucia also mentored two project students and was first author of their joint paper in FEBS Letters.
Dr. Anuja MehtaAnuja was responsible for fly maintenance and some departmental teaching in practicals. Research-wise, Anuja performed a genetic screen aimed at isolating novel mutants involved in iron homeostasis. She also mentored and was helped by final year project students in this project. Anuja authored 2 publications during her stay, in Biochemical Society Transactions and Biochimie, after which she moved on to do a Ph.D. at Brandeis University. Presently studying patent law at San Diego.
Ms. Narmatha Sabaratnam Narmatha was a QMUL student who studied a fly model of pantothenate kinase associated neurodegeneration. She contributed to a publication in FEBS Letters reporting zinc accumulation in flies with a mutation in pantothenate kinase.
Mr. Darren Pilbro – QMUL student: in vivo imaging of ferritin assembly.
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