COHORT 2018

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Mechanisms, Hallmarks, and Implications of Stem Cell Quiescence

From left to right: Wladislaw Stroukov, Inchul Cho, Jana Obajdin, Prudence Lui, Thea Willis and Federica Riccio

From left to right: Wladislaw Stroukov, Inchul Cho, Jana Obajdin, Prudence Lui, Thea Willis and Federica Riccio

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Jana Obajdin
Jana Obajdin

I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry with a Year in Industry at the University of Leeds. During this time, I spent a year working in the Investigative Toxicology group at UCB BIoPharma in Belgium exploring novel biomarkers of drug-induced kidney injury for toxicity assessments. I then completed my undergraduate thesis project in the lab of Alan Berry working on structural studies to uncover the crystal structure of IdmH, a putative polyketide cyclase and an enzymatic component of the NRPS/PKS system which generates the antibiotic indanomycin.

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Prudence Lui
Prudence Lui

I completed a MSci in Genetics at University College London. I then spent two and a half years working as a research technician in Dr Filipe Cabreiro’s microbiology-metabolism lab, exploring the three-way host-microbiome-environment relationship, using a C. elegans model.

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Thea Willis
Thea Willis

I completed my undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Bath. During my degree, I undertook a placement year to research novel autophagy adaptor proteins in redox homeostasis under Professor Luo at the Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. When I returned to Bath for my final year, I joined Professor Tosh’s lab where I was involved in the characterization of novel transcription factors associated with transdifferentiation events that occur in Barrett’s Oesophagus disease.

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Wladislaw Stroukov
Wladislaw Stroukov

I completed my undergraduate degree in Molecular Medicine and a master’s degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Albrecht Ludwig University of Freiburg.

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Federica Riccio
Federica Riccio

I completed my undergraduate and master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Milan (Italy). During my BSc I examined the molecular mechanisms of stress in the development of depression (University of Milan). During my MSc my work focused on the crystallisation of a Dengue virus protein for drug discovery purposes (internship at University College London). After graduating, I enrolled in the ORISE post-bac fellowship program at the National Institutes of Health (USA) where I worked on a basic cell biology project, looking at the interplay between structure and function of the endoplasmic reticulum.

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Inchul Cho
Inchul Cho

I completed my undergraduate degree in Developmental Biology at the University of Manchester, where I developed an interest in the role of physical cues in regulating cell fate. I then spent a year working as a publishing assistant at the Nature Publishing Group. Finally, I studied for an MPhil in Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge, during which I further pursued my interest in the cellular interactions that occur in response to injury using a mouse model that allows for lineage tracing of a specific pulmonary mesenchymal cell type.

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LISTEN: STEMCELLS@LUNCH DIGESTED

In this special episode of Stem Cells @ Lunch Digested, CSCRM Public Engagement Officer Jessica Sells speaks to the Wellcome Trust ‘Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine’ 4 year PhD Programme 2018 cohort about their experience co-writing a review.

The review titled: ‘Mechanisms, Hallmarks, and Implications of Stem Cell Quiescence’ was published in Stem Cell Reports, and will be featured in the special June edition of the publication to tie in with the International Society for Stem Cell Research 2019 conference.

The interview features Wladislaw Stroukov, Jana Obajdin, Prudence Lui, Thea Willis and Federica Riccio. Unfortunately, fellow cohort member Inchul Cho was unable to attend.

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