The Etch A Cell Team

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EMBL Hamburg

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Matthew Lawson - Post-doctoral research fellow

I am a post-doctoral research fellow currently working at EMBL in
Hamburg, Germany. I primarily work on three-dimensional imaging of human
soft tissues primarily using X-ray imaging at the Petra III synchrotron
in Hamburg. Additionally I am heavily involved in the post-processing
and analysis of 3D imaging data.

 

Jonas Albers - Research Scientist and Senior Technical Officer

Jonas Albers is a Research Scientist and Senior Technical Officer at EMBL in Hamburg. He is actively involved in X-ray imaging methods development and establishing the X-ray Imaging service at EMBL. Prior to joining EMBL, he acquired his doctoral degree in Molecular Medicine at the University of Göttingen, Germany, working in the Department for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen.

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European Bioinformatics Institute

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Virginie Uhlmann - Deputy Head of Research and Research Group Leader

Virginie Uhlmann is Deputy Head of Research and Research Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge, UK. Her main research area is bioimage quantification, with strong interests in approximation theory, machine learning, computational geometry, and statistical shape analysis. She is also co-chairing the Theory Transversal Theme, an EMBL-wide initiative promoting theory-guided approaches in life science research.

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Imperial College London

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Candice Roufosse - Clinical Reader and Honorary Consultant

Dr. Candice Roufosse (MD PhD) is a Clinical Reader in Renal Pathology in the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases (CID), Dept Immunology & Inflammation, Imperial College London. She is also an Honorary Consultant in Renal and Transplant pathology at North West London Pathology, affiliated to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She carries out translational research in kidney and transplant kidney pathology, with a focus on the application of gene expression analysis and novel imaging technologies to improve diagnosis. She is a trial pathologist for clinical trials in transplantation and glomerulonephritis. Particular areas of expertise are transplant rejection and paraprotein-related renal injury.

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The Francis Crick Institute

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Alana Burrell - Electron Microscopist and Research Scientist

Dr Alana Burrell started her career by training in Veterinary Medicine, before going on to complete a PhD in Veterinary Parasitology. It was during her PhD studies that she first used electron microscopy to investigate the interactions between animal cells and parasites. Alana now works as an electron microscopist and research scientist in the Electron Microscopy Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute London. She is also a visiting researcher with the Dept Immunology & Inflammation, Imperial College London. Her particular interests include the development and application of advanced imaging workflows to study pathological processes in human tissue.

 

Lucy Collinson - Head of Electron Microscopy

Lucy Collinson realised that she was fascinated by the nano-world when she did her final year science project in microbiology at school and watched milk turn sour for a month. This inspired her to apply for a degree and then a PhD in microbiology, followed by post-doctoral research using massive, complicated microscopes to image tiny fascinating cells. During her post-doc, she realised that she was much more interested in developing microscopy techniques than in understanding the samples she was imaging, and she soon switched from studying the cells themselves to running electron microscopy facilities. She now runs a large imaging facility at the Francis Crick Institute, which houses many cutting edge light, X-ray and electron microscopes. Her primary role is to image a huge range of cell and tissue samples for other researchers with a team of ten biological electron microscopists, and she also collaborates with engineers, physical and computational scientists to design new microscopes and imaging workflows.

 

Martin Jones - Deputy Head of Microscopy Prototyping

Martin is Deputy Head of Microscopy Prototyping at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Originally an experimental physicist, with an interest in evolutionary and adaptive computation, he switched to biological research at Cancer Research UK’s London Research Institute. After initially working in a vascular biology lab, Martin joined the Electron Microscopy Science Technology Platform where he now works on developing new hardware and software solutions to help acquire and efficiently interpret image data.

 

Helen Spiers - Zooniverse Biomedical Research Lead

Dr Helen Spiers is Biomedical Research Lead of the Zooniverse and a CZI Imaging Scientist Fellow. Based at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Helen works with many research teams around the world to develop novel citizen science projects tackling a range of biomedical research questions. Helen also studies the phenomenon of citizen science, and is currently examining multiple aspects of volunteer experience across the Zooniverse. Prior to her current position, Helen completed a PhD in developmental epigenetics at King’s College London, worked as a Medical Writer for two years, and obtained a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.