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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.