Dr Emily NoëlMy research career began as a PhD student at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, under the supervision of Elke Ober. Here I learnt to use the zebrafish as a model organism, and worked on mechanisms of hepatic specification and morphogenesis during embryonic development.
Wishing to follow up on my interest in the genetic regulation of tissue morphogenesis, I moved to the lab of Jeroen Bakkers at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht to study different aspects of heart development. Here I worked on the mechanisms governing establishment of left-right asymmetry in the embryo, how left-right asymmetry affects heart morphogenesis, and mechanisms by which the heart undergoes looping. |
Dr Eric Pollitt - Postdoctoral Research AssistantEric is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Biomedical Science at the University of Sheffield. He began his academic career studying Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Bristol followed by a Phd at the University of Nottingham examining social behaviours of bacteria in the laboratory of Steve Diggle. This was then followed by 3 years as a postdoctoral researcher working on an Innovate UK grant in the laboratory of Simon Foster. This looked at the population dynamics of Staphylococcus aureus in model organisms, including zebrafish. He also has an interest in bacterial motility. Outside the lab, his interests include real ale and art.
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Juliana Sánchez Posada - Postdoctoral Research AssociateJuliana recently completed her PhD in the Noël lab, and is currently continuing her work on ECM in heart morphogenesis as a postdoc.. She began her studies at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, where she completed her Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering degrees. During her masters in Biomedical Engineering at the same university, she specialised in the development and in-vitro and in-vivo evaluation of medical devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. During that time she became interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of heart morphogenesis and the development of congenital heart diseases, which brought her to our team! In her spare time, Juliana likes to cook, cycle and relax reading books and listening to jazz at small coffee places.
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Corinna Snashall - PhD studentCorinna is studying for a PhD in Biomedical Science at the University of Sheffield in the Bateson Centre. She obtained her integrated masters degree in Biomedical Science from the University of Sheffield, then spent 2.5 years as a lab technician at the University of Oxford, working on transplant proteomics. Outside the lab, Corinna enjoys cooking, baking, exploring the Peak District (and its pubs) and playing in the Sheffield Concert Band. Corinna is supported by a University of Sheffield PhD Scholarship
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