Group Members
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Achillefs N. Kapanidis, Ph.D. |
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Current Members |
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Dr. Hafez El Sayyed Post-doctoral Fellow Email: hafez.elsayyed@physics.ox.ac.uk Investigating transcription dynamics and nucleoid structure using super-resolution imaging of RNA polymerase in live E. coli |
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Dr. Oliver Pambos Post-doctoral Fellow Email: oliver.pambos@physics.ox.ac.uk Single molecule and super-resolution studies of the spatial organization of transcription. |
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Dr. Abhishek Mazumder Post-doctoral Fellow Email: abhishek.mazumder@physics.ox.ac.uk Single-molecule studies of structural transitions in RNA polymerase during transcription initiation and elongation. |
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Dr. Christof Hepp Post-doctoral Fellow Email: Christof.Hepp@physics.ox.ac.uk Utilizing in vitro single molecule fluorescence microscopy on immobilized influenza vRNPs to elucidate important mechanistic aspects of viral RNA replication and transcription. |
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Dr. Heesoo Uhm Post-doctoral Fellow Email: Heesoo.Uhm@physics.ox.ac.uk In vitro and in vivo single molecule analysis on mechanism of transcription and DNA repair. |
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Dr. Stelios Chatzimichail Post-doctoral Fellow Email: stelios.chatzimichail@physics.ox.ac.uk Single-molecule studies of single-cell bacterial isolates for rapid testing of antimicrobial resistance. |
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Dr. Piers Turner Post-doctoral Fellow Email: piers.turner@physics.ox.ac.uk Developing machine learning/deep learning diagnostic tools for rapid detection of antimicrobial resistance. |
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Dr. Jagadish Prasad Hazra Post-doctoral Fellow Email: jagadish.hazra@physics.ox.ac.uk Single molecule DNA sequencing by hybridisation. |
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Dr. Prabir Kulabhusan Post-doctoral Fellow Email: prabir.kulabhusan@physics.ox.ac.uk Developing rapid virus diagnostic methods using fluorescence and super resolution microscopy. |
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Andrew McMahon DPhil student Email: andrew.mcmahon@physics.ox.ac.uk Single-molecule studies of influenza and SARS-CoV2. |
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Nicolas Shiaelis DPhil student Email: nicolas.shiaelis@st-annes.ox.ac.uk Website link: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/shiaelis My project aspires to develop the tools for the next generation of viral diagnostics utilizing fluorescent microscopy, machine learning and neutron reflectometry. |
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Aleksander Zagajewski DPhil student Email: aleksander.zagajewski@keble.ox.ac.uk Spatial organisation and mechanical control of gene expression on the bacterial chromosome. |
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Anna Wang DPhil student Email: anna.wang@physics.ox.ac.uk Development of a spectral microscope for visualising coupled conformational changes. |
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Rasched Haidari DPhil student Email: rasched.haidari@linacre.ox.ac.uk Super-resolution studies to probe spatial distribution of proteins. |
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Mirjam Kummerlin DPhil student Email: mirjam.kummerlin@physics.ox.ac.uk Studying transcriptional mechanisms using single-molecule DNA hybridization. |
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Emma Lalande DPhil student Email: emma.lalande@lincoln.ox.ac.uk Studying global transcriptional regulation using single molecule techniques - a road to homeostasis. |
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Alison Farrar DPhil student Email: alison.farrar@keble.ox.ac.uk Developing novel methods for the rapid detection of antibiotic susceptibility in clinical samples and using single-molecule imaging to investigate cross-talk between cellular translation and replication machinery in bacteria. |
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Qing Zhao DPhil student Email: qing.zhao@physics.ox.ac.uk My research is about assessing the packaging stoichiometry and spatial organisation of influenza A viral segments. |
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Benjamin Middleton MPhys student Email: benjamin.middleton@stcatz.ox.ac.uk Machine learning based approaches for super resolution enhancement of fluorescence images. |
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Helena Bayley MPhys student Email: helena.bayley@exeter.ox.ac.uk Using electroporated DNA probes to study how the fluidity of the bacterial cytoplasm depends on the metabolic or stress state of the cell. |
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
- 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. 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

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)