Zofia Pukalo

PhD student.

Zofia was born and raised in Poland but moved to London for university to study Biological Sciences during which she spent a year abroad in Vienna. Currently, she is doing a Wellcome-funded PhD co-supervised by JP and Andrew Jackson who is based at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer in Edinburgh. As her project, she studies the molecular mechanism of an E3 ubiquitin ligase, TRAIP, which was found to be mutated in patients with dwarfism. Outside of science, she enjoys painting and knitting as well as doing sports such as swimming and skiing.  

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