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Dr. Phillip Auckland

PhD project: Molecular analysis of chromosome movement by microtubule depolymerisation-coupled pulling

Supervisor: Andrew McAinsh (WMS) and Anne Straube (WMS)

Now a Wellcome Trust funded Postdoctoral fellow in the McAinsh lab continuing his work on chromosome segregation.

Dr. Gokhan Tut

PhD project: On the microtubule based transport of Marek's disease virus

Supervisor: Anne Straube (WMS) and Venugopal Pair (Pirbright Institute)

Dr. Ian Winfield

PhD project: Quantifying biased agonism of adenosine and calcitonin-like receptors

Supervisor: Graham Ladds (Warwick Medical School and Cambridge) and Jonathan Millar (WMS)

After graduation took up a postdoctoral position in the Andreas Bender Lab, University of Cambridge, and is now Senior Scientist at Charles Rivers Laboratories.

Dr. Mary Halebian

PhD project: Biophysical analysis of binding interactions between clathrin and its adaptor proteins

Supervisor: Corinne Smith (SLS) and Frances Brodsky (UCL)

Dr. Liam Messin

PhD project Spatial control of microtubule shrinkage

Supervisors: Jonathan Millar (WMS) and Rob Cross (WMS)

After graduation was initially editor for the Biomed Central journal Oral Health and is now Senior Submissions Editor at Springer Nature.

Dr. Souvik Naskar

PhD project: Reconstitution and functional analysis of the FtsEXA-PcsB divisiome complex required for peptidoglycan remodelling and cell separation in S.pneumonia

Supervisors: David Roper (SLS) and Corinne Smith (SLS)

Now post-doctoral researcher at Imperial College London.

Dr. Nicholas Sillett

PhD project Exploring the roles of the C-terminal of Pol2, the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase E, in replication and checkpoint response

Supervisors: Giacomo De Piccoli (WMS) and Philippe Pasero (Montpellier)

Now a Project Manager and Research Associate with International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM)

Dr. Oliver Sinfield

PhD project: Processing bodies are dynamically localised and associate with multiple organelles throughout the replicative lifespan of the yeast cell

Supervisors: John McCarthy (SLS) and Rob Cross (WMS)

Now Product Manager at Cleaver Scientific Ltd

Dr. Joseph van de Wiel

PhD project: Towards an understanding of the role of Connexin26 in breathing

Supervisors: Nicholas Dale (SLS) and Mark Wall (SLS)

Dr. Laura Wood

PhD project: Development of an inducible model of clathrin-mediated endocytosis

Supervisor: Steve Royle(WMS) and Anne Straube (WMS)

Laura held our Institute of Advanced Study-MRC DTP Early Career Fellowship before moving to University of Bath (Koumanov lab) as post-doctoral associate to work on defects in glucose transporter (GLUT4) trafficking in the development of type 2 diabetes.