Lab Members
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Helena is a Group Head at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS), and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge in 2006, at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in the group of Dr Mike Murphy, where she developed an interest in mitochondrial oxidative stress and redox biology. She started working with Drosophila in 2007 as a post-doc at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, UCL in the laboratory of Prof. Linda Partridge. She established her own group at the LMS in 2013, and was promoted to Programme Leader Track in 2018.
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Andrea graduated with a BA in Natural Sciences specialising in Genetics at Trinity College Dublin in her native Ireland. She then completed a Masters in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster, before moving to London to work as a research technician at University College London. She has been working in the field of Drosophila ageing and metabolism ever since, and joined the Cochemé Lab in 2014.
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Marcela comes from the Czech Republic, where she did her BSc in Biology and MSc in Animal Physiology at the University of South Bohemia, researching ageing using the linden bug model. For her PhD at the University of Leicester, Marcela moved to the field of chronobiology studying the light synchronisation of circadian and seasonal rhythms in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Marcela joined the Cochemé Lab in 2018.
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Claudia is from Germany and did her PhD studies in Biochemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the group of Prof. Barbara Seliger, where she developed an interest in redox signalling, exploring the effects of selenocompounds on cellular redox state and how tumours escape from immune surveillance. As part of her PhD studies, she moved to the US for 8 months to work at the Georgia Cancer Center in the group of Dr Samir Khleif. Claudia joined the Cochemé Lab as an MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientist in 2018, and is investigating the redox regulation of metabolic signalling pathways in Drosophila.
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Lucie is from the Netherlands and did her BSc in Neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam, followed by an MRes in Neurosciences at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. As part of her masters, she moved to London for 6 months to do a placement in the lab of Prof. Linda Partridge at UCL, where she was first introduced to the wonderful world of fruit flies. Lucie joined the Cochemé Lab as a PhD student in 2014, and is studying the redox regulation of metabolic signalling pathways in ageing.
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Alec completed his BSc in Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol in 2014. Keen to expand his laboratory experience, he spent 8 months as a voluntary research assistant at UCL investigating the role of the Y chromosome in sexual antagonism, before working as a research technician for a year at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, UCL. Alec started his PhD in the Cochemé Lab in 2016 investigating the role of nitric oxide signalling in metabolic regulation.
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Eliano comes from Portugal, where he completed his Medical Degree at the New University of Lisbon. Aspiring to become a biogerontologist, he gained laboratory experience during his MD training, most notably working as a volunteer researcher in the group of Dr Silvia Conde at the Chronic Diseases Research Center, where he studied morphological changes in the carotid body with ageing and insulin resistance. Eliano joined the Cochemé Lab as a PhD student in 2018.
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Cassie Lee - MRes StudentCassie is currently studying for her MRes in Biomedical Research at Imperial College London. She previously graduated with a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from Brunel University. She joined the Cochemé Lab in 2018 to complete her first project rotation on stress responses and survival in Drosophila.
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Alumni
- Salih Kucuk (MSc Student)
- Dr Fiona Leiper (Post-Doc): Senior Scientist, University of Glasgow
- Joel James (Commonwealth Scholar): PhD VIT University, India
- Stephany Jaiquel Baron (MSc Student): PhD University of Cambridge
- Lucy Marshall (BSc Student): PhD King’s College London
- Emma Walmsley (BSc Student): MSc Imperial College London
- Esther van Dam (Erasmus Scholar): MD VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
- Henry Bickers (BSc Student): MSc University of Oxford