People

Julie did her PhD in Structural Biology of the regulation of CDK/cyclins and other complexes  in the LMB, University of Oxford with Prof Jane Endicott and Prof Martin Noble. She spent one year in Eva Nogales's laboratory at UC Berkeley to further study mitotic protein complexes by electron microscopy. She joined the Cheeseman lab, at the Whitehead Institute and MIT, Boston, in 2008 to pursue cell biology and biochemical studies on mitosis. 

Julie received a CRUK research career development and moved in April 2012 to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh to start the lab and study the molecular basis for motors in cell division. From 2018-2024, she was Wellcome Senior Fellow. 

MRC Precision medicine student

Jeraldine is a Biochemistry graduate from the University of Bath. She spent one year at the ESRF, France while an undergraduate and worked on the PROTAC degradation system in her final year project. Jeraldine is half-french half-thai.

Jeraldine is working on tubulin isotypes in collaboration with Prof Alison Hulme.

MRC Precision medicine student

Pallavi is a Chemistry graduate from Imperial College London. During her undergraduate studies, she completed a year-long placement at AstraZeneca where she worked as an analytical chemist. Now, as part of the Precision Medicine DTP, she is investigating the role of mitotic protein phosphatases in regulating cell proliferation in collaboration with Prof Alison Hulme and Prof Joe Marsh.

Darwin Trust PhD student

Postdoctoral associate  

Shivam is a postdoctoral researcher interested in intracellular transport mediated by motor proteins. He joined the Welburn Lab to investigate the role of mitotic motors such as CENP-E and MKLP1 in cell division. Previously, he studied how short linear motifs (SLiMs) and natural cargo adaptors activate kinesin-1, applying techniques including electron microscopy and hydrogen–deuterium exchange. His long-standing interest in motor protein architecture and regulation began during his PhD, where he focused on the kinesin-1 heterotetramer.

Postdoctoral associate

Alice did her undergraduate degree  in Natural Sciences, followed by a M Sci Biochemistry in Cambridge. She then did her PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge with Dr Emmanuel Derivery studying polarised trafficking during asymmetric cell division.

She joined the lab to work on intercellular cytoplasmic transport in germ cells 

Darwin Trust PhD student

Michelle is a Darwin Trust PhD student. She holds an Integrated Master’s degree from VIT University, India. She then worked as a Project Associate in the Department of Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, where she was involved in research focused on the biophysics of fluid transport in kidney epithelial cells.