News

The latest news from the Polizzi Group

Holiday Greetings from all of us in the Polizzi lab!

Welcome to Kushaal Desai and Rui Wu

A warm welcome to Kushaal (Kush) and Rui our latest PhD students!

Congratulations to Prof Karen Polizzi

Huge congratulations from everyone in the Polizzi lab to Prof Karen Polizzi who has been promoted to Professor of Biotechnology!

-Sep 1, 2021

Farewell to Juhyun (Chu) Kim

Chu sadly leaves us to go on to setup his own lab as a lecturer at Kyungpook National University, Korea.

-Aug 12, 2021

Welcome to Amalia Choupi

The lab welcomes Amalia Choupi who is working on an MSc project in the lab.

-Jun 18, 2021

Congratulations Dr Elli Makrydaki for winning the Dudley Newitt Prize for Experimental Excellence

Congratulations to Elli whose fantastic PhD resulted in the Dudley Newitt Prize!

-Mar 18, 2021

Congratulations Dr Barney Walker

Congratulations to Barney who successfully defended his PhD! We look forward to celebrating with you soon.

-Jan 22, 2021

Welcome to Farzana Alam

The lab welcomes Farzana Alam as a new PhD student in the lab!

-Dec 7, 2020

Congratulations Dr Elli Makrydaki

Congratulations to Elli who successfully defended her PhD thesis!

-Dec 3, 2020

Welcome to our new PhD Students Noah and Oscar

The lab welcomes Noah Sprent and Oscar Marshall as PhD students in the lab!The lab welcomes Noah Sprent and Alex Perkins who have joined us as part of their Systems and Synthetic Biology masters course.

-Oct 5, 2020

Welcome to our MRes Students

The lab welcomes Noah Sprent and Alex Perkins who have joined us as part of their Systems and Synthetic Biology masters course.

-Jan 13, 2020

Congratulations Dr Hung-En (Terrence) Lai

Congratulations to Hung-En Lai who successfully defended his PhD!

-Oct 11, 2019

Welcome to our new cohort of PhD students

Ivet Angelova, Giuliana Mastropietro and Dean Keck have all started their PhDs in our lab!

-Sep 30, 2019

Congratulations Dr Pinpunya (Joyce) Riangrungroj

Congratulations to Pinpunya (Joyce) Riangrungroj for successfully defending her PhD!

-Jun 4, 2019

Welcome to Juhyun Kim

Juhyun (Chu) Kim has joined the Polizzi group as a Research Associate working on biosensors in mammalian cells

- May 13, 2019

Congratulations Dr Charles Motraghi

Congratulations to Charles Motraghi for successfully defending his PhD!

- Jan 31, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Polizzi

Karen has taken on a new job in the Department of Chemical Engineering as a Reader.

- Oct 9, 2018

Welcome to the lab Thomas

Thomas has joined the Polizzi lab for a 3 month MRes project

- May 29, 2018

Welcome to Masue Marbiah

Masue Marbiah has joined the Polizzi group working on lactate bionsensors in mammalian cells.

- May 2, 2018

It's been a busy few months...

..for the Polizzi group.

We had 3 undergraduate students, Marius Rebmann, Elliot Medcalf and Jennifer (Zhao) Ding for over 2 months. During that time we've also been joined by Oskar Lange and Charlotta Behrens on the Applied Biology and Biotechnology Masters until August.

Sadly, we've said goodbye to Linda Dekker and Kate Royle and wish them well on the future endeavours.

- Jul 3, 2017

Belated Christmas with the Polizzi group

In traditional Polizzi group style the Polizzi group went for this Christmas lunch in January - Christmas trees included.

- Feb 17, 2017

Big changes for the Polizzi Group

The second half of 2016 saw some big changes for the Polizzi Group with both James Arpino and Jordan Ang leaving and moving on to new adventures. We wish them the best of luck!

- Nov 29, 2016

More comings and goings

We say farewell to Jinwen Hua, Damian Gautschi, Vickeisha Lall and Zhe Lu who all finished their courses this month. We hope you enjoyed your time with us.

We also welcome to the lab Eirini Rousounelou and Ahranee Canden who have started their Master's rotation with us.

- Jun 15, 2016

Graduation, Sunshine and Smiles

Congratulations to Susie, Phil and Ioanna who all graduated at the Royal Albert Hall this month! We hope you had a wonderful day.

- May 18, 2016

Hello - Goodbye

We'd like to say a fond-farewell to Irysad who completed his MRes rotation with us.

Next we have a plethora of welcomes - firstly to our MRes students Jinwen Hua and Abi Faflou. We also have three undergraduates joining us for their final year projects; Damian Gautschi, Vickeisha Lall and Zhe Lu.

We hope you all enjoy the experience of working in our lab!

- Mar 7, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Felix Jonas

Congratulations to Dr. Felix Jonas on passing his PhD viva!

- Feb 22, 2016

Welcome to Irsyad

We would like to welcome Irsyad to our group, he will be joining us for a few months working on his masters project with Lisa.

- Oct 29, 2015

Congratulations to Latiffah!

Congratulations are extended to Latiffah for submitting her PhD thesis!

- Oct 26, 2015

Well done to Susie, Felix and Kealan

Congratulations to Susie, Felix and Kealan for climbing that last hurdle and submitting your thesis! We look forward to welcoming you back for your vivas and future celebrations!

- Oct 7, 2015

Congratulations Dr. Phil

Our most heartfelt congratulations go to the new Dr. Philip Jedrejewski on passing his PhD viva. We hope you enjoy your time traveling the globe and enjoying your well-earned freedom.

- Sep 9, 2015

Goodbyes

We would like to say congratulations and goodbye to Alex West and Wu Yuzheng who have joined through the year for their Masters. We wish you luck for all your future endeavours!

- Sep 9, 2015

Smoked Goodies Farewells

We say goodbye to our three undergraduates, Doug, Miranda and Sukham, who have been with us since March and wish them all the best in their future endeavours. We also welcome Alex West who is joining us as a Masters student for a few month. What better way to say our goodbyes than with smoked food (and some smokey beer)!

Jun 26, 2015

Karen goes to Parliament

Karen attended Parliamentary Links day on Tuesday 25th June with the Society for Experimental Biology. And there was even a surprise guest in attendance.

- Jun 26, 2015

From left to right: Zoe Self (Royal Veterinary College), Nicolas Bury (Kings College London), Hillary Benn MP, Sarah Blackford (Lancaster University), George Littlejohn (University of Exeter), Esther Odekunle (Queen Mary), me, Richard Kino (University of Reading), Alun Anderson, Cristobal Uauy (John Innes Centre).

More welcomes

We would like to welcome Pinpunya (Joyce) Riangrungroj who is starting her PhD with us and Linda Dekker who will be joining our lab as a Postdoc!

- May 26, 2015

Students galore!

We have been infiltrated by both MRes and Undergraduates for the summer term (and then some more). We hope you enjoy working in our lab!

- Apr 30, 2015

Congratulations to Dr Ioanna Stefani and Dr Lisa Goers

Huge congratulations go to Dr Ioanna and Stefani and Dr Lisa Goers for passing their vivas!

- Jan 28, 2015

Congratulations to Dr Marios Tomazou

Congratulations to Dr Marios Tomazou for passing his PhD viva!

- Dec 8, 2014

Congratulations to our MRes Students

Congratulations to all our MRes students; Annette Strege, Charles Motraghi, Gerald Zikeli and Lai Hung for completing their MRes projects. It has been a pleasure having you all in the lab and good luck with all your future endeavours!

- Sep 24, 2014

Welcome to our MRes Students

The Polizzi group would like to welcome Gerald Zikeli and welcome back Annette Strege, our two new MRes students who will be joining us for the next few months

- Jun 16, 2014

Welcome to Kate Royle

The Polizzi lab would like to welcome our newest postdoc Kate Royle to the team!

- May 7, 2014

Welcome to our MRes Students and Undergraduate Students

The Polizzi lab would like to extend a warm welcome to Hung Lai who will be joining us as an MRes student on the Systems and Synthetic Biology Course. We would also like to welcome our three undergraduates for their final year projects; Margarita, Grace and James! We hope you all find the lab an exciting and enjoyable place to work!

- Mar 31, 2014

Welcome and Congratulations

The Polizzi lab would like to welcome our new MRes students Annette and Charles. We would like to congratulate Nicolas Kral and Dafni Glinos for passing their MRes!

We would also like to say a huge congratulations to Ali Behjousiar for passing his PhD!

- Oct 18, 2013

Welcome MSc and BSc Students

The Polizzi lab would like to welcome this years undergraduate and taught graduate students, totally in 6 keen students in total. They will be working on a number of projects helping to support our research. Welcome all !!!

- Apr 17, 2013

Annual Autumn Symposium and Book Launch...

Welcome

The Polizzi lab would like to welcome Nick and Hugo, both who will be working in Biosensors

- Oct 20, 2009