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Meet the Team
From left to right:
From left to right:
Nishan Nathoo (PhD Student 2024-2028)
Supervisors: 1st Supervisor: Dr Laia Pasquina Lemonche (Biosciences School, UoS)
2n Supervisor: Prof Per Bullough (Biosciences School, UoS)
Project summary: Understanding the cell wall maturation of Streptococcus pneumoniae using biophysical approaches such as AFM, STORM and image analysis
Calum Lloyd (PhD Student 2024-2028)
Supervisors: 1st Supervisor: Dr Andrew Parnell (MPS School, UoS)
2n Supervisor: Dr Laia Pasquina Lemonche (Biosciences School, UoS)
Project summary: Exploring the use of neutron reflectometry to characterise biophysical properties of Staphylococcus aureus cell wall under different environments
Dr Laia Pasquina-Lemonche (Research Fellow)
Mai Quynh Nguyen (Visiting PhD Student October-November 2024)
Supervisor: 1st Supervisor: Dr Cecile Morlot (IBS, Grenoble, France)
Project summary: Deciphering the interplay between Wall Teichoic Acids and Peptidoglycan on Streptococus pneumoniae using super resolution techniques: STORM and AFM
Former Team
Florence Brand
Florence Brand
(2025-2026) Level 4 Undergraduate and Master student (UoS, School of Biosciences)
Investigating how cell wall antibiotics affect the cell wall of D39 S. pneumoniae with correlative AFM and microscopy, optimising recovery experiment to test structure after low level antibiotic exposure
Jessica Mordaunt
Jessica Mordaunt
(2025-2026) Level 4 Undergraduate and Master student (UoS, School of Biosciences)
Investigating how cell wall antibiotics affect the cell wall of the lab strain R800 S. pneumoniae with correlative AFM and microscopy, developing multiple-colour microscopy
Katherine Pitchford
Katherine Pitchford
(Summer 2025) Generation Research Level 2 Undergraduate Student (University of Huddersfield)
Investigating the effect of loss of a synthetase on the cell wall of S. pneumoniae with Atomic Force Microscopy
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