Who are we?

Dr Eva Frickel

Eva is in charge of the lab. She started her research career studying how proteins fold inside cells, which made her interested in how different proteins react to infectious microorganisms during infection. This eventually led to her leading her own research group, which became the Host-Toxoplasma Interaction Lab!

Dr Barbara Clough

Barbara is the Senior Research Scientist in the lab. She researches how proteins attach to the parasite-containing vacuole (the compartment in the cell where Toxoplasma hides during infection) and how they interact with other proteins in the cell.

Dr Robbie Evans

After completing his PhD studying infectious fungi, Robbie joined Eva's lab to study Toxoplasma. He investigates important genes and proteins that are involved in controlling how our cells respond when Toxoplasma infects them.

Dr Daniel Fisch

Daniel completed his PhD in Eva's lab where he focussed on making HRMAn (the software we use to help understand the images from our experiments) and investigating how we can use it to improve how we analyse images of Toxoplasma and other infectious microbes.

Sophie Byrne

Sophie is completing her Masters degree project in the Host-Toxoplasma Interactiom lab. Part of her project has involved developing this Zooniverse project! She is in charge of collecting the data that you will generate, and analysing it later on.

Dr Helen Spiers

Zooniverse Biomedical Research Lead
Dr Helen Spiers is the Biomedical Research Lead of the Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org). Currently based across the University of Oxford and The Francis Crick Institute, where she is presently seconded, Dr Spiers collaborates with multiple national and international research groups to develop, deploy and novel biomedical citizen science projects. Although diverse in subject matter, these projects are united by the common aim of applying collective intelligence to perform distributed data analysis of large volumes of biomedical data. Additionally, Dr Spiers analyses the meta-data produced by the Zooniverse platform and applies citizen science to advance electron micrograph segmentation approaches. Prior to her current role, she completed a PhD in developmental epigenetics at King’s College London after obtaining a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.