Our Team

Achillefs N. Kapanidis

Professor of Biological Physics

kapanidis@physics.ox.ac.uk

Short CV

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

Single-molecule studies of single-cell bacterial isolates for rapid testing of antimicrobial resistance

Jagadish Prasad Hazra

Post-doctoral Fellow

jagadish.hazra@physics.ox.ac.uk

Single molecule DNA sequencing by hybridisation

Suchintak Dash

Post-doctoral Fellow

suchintak.dash@physics.ox.ac.uk

Single molecule analysis of transcription kinetics inside live bacteria

Nicolas Shiaelis

DPhil student

nicolas.shiaelis@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Developing the tools for viral diagnostics utilizing fluorescent microscopy, machine learning and neutron reflectometry

Rasched Haidari

DPhil student

rasched.haidari@linacre.ox.ac.uk

Super-resolution studies to probe spatial distribution of proteins

Mirjam Kummerlin

DPhil student

mirjam.kummerlin@physics.ox.ac.uk

Studying transcriptional mechanisms using single-molecule DNA hybridization

Emma Lalande

DPhil student

emma.lalande@lincoln.ox.ac.uk

Studying global transcriptional regulation using single molecule techniques - a road to homeostasis

Qing Zhao

DPhil student

qing.zhao@physics.ox.ac.uk

Assessing the packaging stoichiometry and spatial organisation of influenza A viral segments

Jacob Wright

DPhil student

jacob.wright@linacre.ox.ac.uk

Using super-resolution microscopy to investigate protein structure in bacteria

Sammi Ta

DPhil student

sammi.ta@keble.ox.ac.uk

Molecular mechanisms of bacteriophage infection and replication in E. coli

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. Piers Turner
Post-doctoral Fellow (2021-2024).
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. Alison Farrar
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), Edward Wheeler (2024)

MPhys students

Beichen Zhang(2024), 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)

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)