Our Team
Hafez El Sayyed
Post-doctoral Fellow
hafez.elsayyed@physics.ox.ac.uk
Investigating transcription dynamics and nucleoid structure using super-resolution imaging of RNA polymerase in live E. coli
Oliver Pambos
Post-doctoral Fellow
oliver.pambos@physics.ox.ac.uk
Single-molecule and super-resolution studies of the spatial organization of transcription
Stelios Chatzimichail
Post-doctoral Fellow
stelios.chatzimichail@physics.ox.ac.uk
Rapid diagnostics of antimicrobial resistance based on single-cell imaging
Piers Turner
Post-doctoral Fellow
Developing machine learning/deep learning diagnostic tools for rapid detection of antimicrobial resistance
Jagadish Prasad Hazra
Post-doctoral Fellow
jagadish.hazra@physics.ox.ac.uk
Single-molecule DNA sequencing for high-throughput analysis of sequence-dependent protein-DNA interactions
Nicolas Shiaelis
DPhil student
nicolas.shiaelis@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Developing viral diagnostics based on fluorescence microscopy, machine learning and neutron reflectometry
Rasched Haidari
DPhil student
rasched.haidari@linacre.ox.ac.uk
Super-resolution studies to probe spatial distribution and mobility of proteins in bacteria
Mirjam Kummerlin
DPhil student
mirjam.kummerlin@physics.ox.ac.uk
Studying transcriptional mechanisms using single-molecule DNA hybridization
Emma Lalande
DPhil student
Studying in vivo RNA synthesis using single-molecule tracking
Alison Farrar
DPhil student
Novel methods for the rapid detection of antibiotic susceptibility using single-cell imaging of gene expression machinery
Qing Zhao
DPhil student
Assessing the packaging stoichiometry and spatial organisation of influenza A viral segments
Jacob Wright
DPhil student
Using super-resolution microscopy to investigate protein structure and phase separation in bacteria
Edward Wheeler
DPhil student
edward.wheeler@wadham.ox.ac.uk
Single-molecule tracking RNA in E. coli using fluorescence microscopy
Beichen Zhang
MPhys student
machine learning/deep learning methods for FRET analysis
Past Members
Academic Visitors
- Nigel D. F. Grindley (09/07-05/08)
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University - Catherine M. Joyce (09/07-05/08)
Senior Research Scientist, Yale University - Richard Ludescher (2018-2019)
Professor of Food Science, Rutgers University - Xiaojuan Li (2019-2020)
Professor of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University
Post-doctoral Fellows
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Dr. Christof Hepp
Post-doctoral Fellow (2018-2023). -
Dr. Heesoo Uhm
Post-doctoral Fellow (2019-2023). Heesoo Uhm is a research fellow at Seoul National University. https://sites.google.com/view/baelab/ - Dr. Abhishek Mazumder
- Dr. Prabir Kulabhusan
Post-doctoral Fellow (2021-2022). - Dr. Barak Gilboa
Post-doctoral Fellow (2016-2020). - Dr. Jun Fan
Post-doctoral Fellow (2016-2020). - Dr. Horst Steuer
Post-doctoral Fellow (2015-2018). - Dr. Nicole Robb
Post-doctoral Fellow (2011-2017). Nicole Robb is a research fellow at the University of Oxford. https://robb.web.ox.ac.uk/ - Dr. Anssi Malinen
Post-doctoral Fellow (2016). Anssi is a research fellow at the University of Turku, Finland. https://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/sci/yksikot/biokemia/henkilokunta/bk/Sivut/Malinen-Anssi.aspx. - Dr. David Dulin
Post-doctoral Fellow (2016). David has set up his own group in Erlangen, Germany. https://sites.google.com/site/ddulinlab/home. - Dr. David LV Bauer
Post-doctoral Fellow (2016). David is a post-doctoral researcher in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. - Dr. Timothy Craggs
Post-doctoral Fellow (2015). Tim has set up his own group at the University of Sheffield. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profiles/tim_craggs - Dr. Geraint Evans
Post-doctoral Fellow (2015). Geraint is now pursuing a career in industry at Illumina, Inc. . - Dr. Pawel Zawadzki
Post-doctoral Fellow (2014). Currently a postdoctoral fellow in Oxford Biochemistry in the Sherratt group. - Dr. Javier Periz
Postdoctoral Fellow (2014). DPhil Student (2010-2014). Pursuing a career in veterinary-related molecular bioscience. - Dr. Louise Aigrain
Post-doctoral Fellow (2010-2013). Currently a Staff Scientist in the Sequencing Research Team at the Wellcome Trust Research Institute Louise's LinkedIn Page. - Dr. Robert Crawford
Post-doctoral Fellow (2011-2013) and DPhil student (2006-2011). Currently a Scientist in Systems Integration at Illumina, based in Cambridge. Rob's LinkedIn Page. - Dr. Johannes Hohlbein
Post-doctoral Fellow (2008-2012). Currently setting up his own group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Johannes' new lab website. - Dr. Ludovic Le Reste
Post-doctoral Fellow (2011-2012). DPhil student (2006-2011). Ludo is now pursuing a career in industry in Switzerland. - Dr. Thorben Cordes
Post-doctoral Fellow (2010-2011). Currently setting up his own group at Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Thorben's new group page. - Dr. Ling Chin Hwang
Post-doctoral Fellow (2006-2009). Now a post-doctoral researcher at NIH, Washington DC. - Dr. Konstantinos Lymperopoulos
Post-doctoral Fellow (2005-2008). Now a post-doctoral researcher at BioQuant, University of Heidelberg. - Dr. Mike Heilemann
Post-doctoral Fellow (2005-07). Currently a professor at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Heilemann group - Dr. Soeren Doose
Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow (2005). Currently a group leader at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
D.Phil students
- Dr. Anna Wang
- Dr. Aleksander Zagajewski
- Dr. Andrew McMahon
- Dr. Rebecca Andrews
- Dr. Maabur Sow
Currently working as a post-doctoral position at the Institute for Quantum Optics at Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. - Dr. Federico Garza de Leon
- Dr. Marko Sustarsic
- Dr. Anne Plochowietz
- Dr. Diego Duchi Llumigusin
- Dr. Alexandra Tomescu
Working for Oxford University Press as an Assistant Editor for scientific publications. - Dr. Stephan Uphoff
Currently a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow based in Oxford Biochemistry with the Sherratt group and Johan Paulsson's lab at Harvard Medical School. - Dr. Justin Pinkney
Currently working for Sargentia, an R&D consultancy based in Cambridge. - Dr. Kristofer Gryte
Now a Data Scientist and Data Visualization Engineer for Decoded. - Dr. Seamus Holden
Currently working as a post-doctoral position at the Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. - Dr. Yusdi Santoso
Currently working as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in Indonesia. - Dr. Joseph Torella
Currently pursuing his second doctorate at Harvard University, Boston. - Dr. Peter May
Currently working for a financial institution in London.
MRes students
Jingwen Xiao(2020)
MPhys students
Sadia Rahman(2023), Luke Knight(2023), Benjamin Middleton (2022), Helena Bayley (2022), 
Joseph Pollacco (2021), Akshat Shah (2021), Kieran Wachsmuth (2020), Nicolas Shiaelis (2019), Joseph Dolphin (2018) Amy Kent (2018), Joe Dolphin (2018), Jonathan Taylor (2017), Mantas Krisciunas (2017), Fraser Jenkings (2016), Thomas Jollans (2015), Andrew Cuthbert (2012), Sam Hollick (2012), Michael Senior (2011), James Dunbar (2010), James Mountain (2010), Doug Kelly (2009), Rob MacAndrew (2009), Nick Berry, Tom Chapman (2008), Robert Edgington (2007), Timan Gill, Mariko Takahagi, and Jonathan Ions (2006)
Joseph Pollacco (2021), Akshat Shah (2021), Kieran Wachsmuth (2020), Nicolas Shiaelis (2019), Joseph Dolphin (2018) Amy Kent (2018), Joe Dolphin (2018), Jonathan Taylor (2017), Mantas Krisciunas (2017), Fraser Jenkings (2016), Thomas Jollans (2015), Andrew Cuthbert (2012), Sam Hollick (2012), Michael Senior (2011), James Dunbar (2010), James Mountain (2010), Doug Kelly (2009), Rob MacAndrew (2009), Nick Berry, Tom Chapman (2008), Robert Edgington (2007), Timan Gill, Mariko Takahagi, and Jonathan Ions (2006)Biochemistry Part II students
Pouya Shoolizadeh (2011), James Ghadiali (2005);
DTC rotation students
Jack Miller (2012), Mathew Stracy (2012), Sam Roots (2011), Brian Chuang, Tiago Rito (2009), Richard Muscat (2007), Wei Meng Ho, Mark Chang (2006)
Wellcome Trust Centre for Structural Biology rotation Students
David Yadin(2009)
Visiting students
Ryan Harrison (2012), Thijs Cui (2014), Martin Kaller (2015), Angelina Scheck (2016)
Summer students
Anna Wang (2018), Irénée Frenot (2010), Oliver Britton (2009), Quentin Delacour (2009); Arnaud Riegert (2008); Vuong Thi Kim Thanh, Ouardane Jouannot (2007), Leila Sattary (2006)
UNIQ+ students
Zonerah Mahmood (2019)
