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Brian Stramer completed his undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, and his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology at Tufts University in Boston, MA. He then moved to the UK to work in the laboratory of Paul Martin as a US/UK Royal Society Fellow at the University of Bristol, before becoming a lecturer and a group leader at King’s College London in 2008.
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Mubarik Burki, PhD |
Mubarik is a developmental cell biologist originally from Pakistan but has lived in England for most of her life. She completed her PhD at University College London, studying epithelial cell polarisation under the supervision of Professor Franck Pichaud. In 2016, she began her postdoc in the Stramer lab, where she is studying the behaviour of macrophages during Drosophila embryogenesis to analyse how directional migration is regulated. In her spare time, Mubarik is passionate about Netball and plays at Club level. Currently, she is getting to grips with balancing life as a new Mum.
zile.burki@kcl.ac.uk |
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Fiona Kenny, PhD
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Fiona is an engineer from Ireland and completed her PhD at The Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London studying mechanical regulation of epidermal cell behaviour. In 2016, she joined the Stramer lab as a postdoc. In our lab, Fiona is studying matrix biology in vitro. In collaboration with the Shaw lab, she has been investigating matrix organisation and remodelling in keloids. In her spare time, Fiona loves to travel and to go hiking.
fiona.kenny@kcl.ac.uk |
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Stefania Marcotti,
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Stefania is a mechanical engineer from Novara, a city in the North of Italy famous for its mosquitos. She completed her PhD in Sheffield at the Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine studying bone cell mechanical properties and joined the Stramer lab in 2018. In our lab, she works as data and image analyst of all things bio across different projects, automating analysis pipelines in different coding languages. She also weirdly enough likes statistics. In her spare time, Stefania is an amateur climber and keen baker.
stefania.marcotti@kcl.ac.uk |
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Yutaka Matsubayashi, PhD |
Yutaka is a cell biologist from Tokyo, Japan. He completed his PhD in Kyoto, an ancient capital of the country. Since then he has been interested in wound healing and inflammation, and he joined our lab in 2014. Here, he revealed an unexpected role of macrophages in the formation of the basement membrane (BM): they deliver BM components throughout the body during Drosophila embryogenesis. He also made a mathematical model of BM component expression dynamics that revealed a remarkably rapid turnover of BM during embryogenesis. In his spare time, he loves practicing kendo (Japanese fencing), and coaches the kendo club of our university.
For Yutaka's Google Scholar Citations see this link. yutaka.matsubayashi@kcl.ac.uk |
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Besaiz J Sanchéz-Sanchéz,
PhD |
Besaiz is a developmental biologist from Granada, one of the most beautiful areas in Andalucia, Spain. He completed his PhD in Seville, studying macrophage migration in the Drosophila embryo in the Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology, and moved to London in 2016 to work as a postdoc in the Stramer lab. In our lab, he is studiyng macrophage behaviour during Drosophila embryogenesis to analyse how the cytoskeleton is regulated through cell migration, and how cells built the extracellular matrix during development. In his spare time, he loves going to the cinema and spending time with his husband, Jesús.
besaiz.sanchez_sanchez@kcl.ac.uk |
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Eduardo Serna-Morales
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Deandra Belo de Freitas |
Deandra is from Madeira, a small Portuguese island off the Moroccan coast, known by many as the Pearl of the Atlantic. She is a Biomedical Engineer who graduated from Imperial College London and is now doing a PhD between the Stramer and Shaw labs. She is interested in dissecting the cellular and mechanical changes that drive keloid scaring through Traction Force Microscopy and High-Throughput Drug Screens. In her spare time, Deandra loves any activities which exploit her artistic and foodie side.
deandra.belo_de_freitas@kcl.ac.uk |
Maria C Diaz de la Loza, PhD
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Maria Carmen Diaz is an Andalusian Researcher and Scientific Illustrator originally from a little fishing town in Cádiz. She has worked as a researcher in laboratories in both Spain and the UK, and after her second postdoc in the Francis Crick Institute in London, she joined the Stramer lab in 2020 as a fly technician, to continue working with fruit flies and live microscopy. She is an avid reader of Sci-Fi and fantasy, and she loves drawing and painting.
maria.diaz.loza@kcl.ac.uk
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Andrei Luchici, PhD
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John Robert Davis, PhD
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Simon Brayford, PhD
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Lawrence Yolland, PhD
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Jennifer Zanet, PhD
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Stramer Lab
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King’s College London
Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus London SE1 1UL United Kingdom |
Professor Brian Stramer
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