People

Meet the lab members.

Julie Welburn

Julie did her PhD in Structural Biology of the regulation of cell cycle 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. Since August 2018, she is Wellcome Senior Fellow. 

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In 2019, she was also selected as an EMBO Young investigator. She has also recently received the Patrick Neill Royal Society of Edinburgh medal for her work in 2021. Her lab uncovers mechanisms of microtubule-based molecular transport and how cargos, motors and tracks cooperate to build cellular structures and ensure correct cell function.

Jeraldine Weber

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.

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Pallavi Simkhada

MRC Precision medicine student

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Lenka Koptasikova

Darwin Trust PhD student

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Shivam Shukla

Postdoctoral associate  

Welburn Shivam Shukla

Agata Gluzsek-Kutusz 2014-2025. Next destination: Sustainability coordinator for the College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh.

Thomas Attard 2018-2022. Next destination:  travelling

Toni McHugh 2015-2022. Next destination: microscopy facility specialist in SBS

Benjamin Craske 2017-2022. PhD student, Next destination: scientist at Fujifilm.

Thibault Legal 2015-2021 (part-time student and awesome RA)-Next destination: a postdoc at McGill in the Bui lab

Jovana Deretic PhD student 2013-2017. Received a Marie Curie International Fellowship. Next destination:  in Elif Firat-Karalar lab.

Alicja Sochai Research Assistant-now postdoc in Poland

Sarah Young Research assistant - next destination: PhD student at the Crick Institute

Sandeep Talapatra postdoc- next destination: postdoc at UCL

Jonida Tafilaku-undergraduate -next destination: PhD student at the MRC-LMB, Cambridge

Viktoryia Stancheva-summer undergraduate (BSCB summer studentship 2014)-next destination:  PhD student at the MRC-LMB, Cambridge

Heather Johnston-Research assistant-next destination: research scientist at Sygnature Discovery

Innes Jarmson (Carnegie Summer studentship 2016)


 

Iva Tolic (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia)

Aurelie Bertin (Institut Curie)

Ulrike Gruneberg (University of Oxford)

Owen Davies (SBS, University of Edinburgh)

Donal O'Carroll (SBS, University of Edinburgh)

Ian Adams (IGC, University of Edinburgh)


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