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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
The Polizzi lab wishes everyone happy holidays!
-Dec 11, 2019
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
Tech Transfer with the Vaccine Hub
Karen and Rochelle have been training Ashik and Arif from Incepta on molecular biology.
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
Rochelle wins Best Early Career presenter prize!
Congratulations to Rochelle for being awarded first place for the early career talks at the BioProNET 4th Annual Conference.
- Oct 20, 2017
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
Rochelle goes to Parliment
Rochelle Aw was awarded a place at STEM for Britain 2017, where early career researchers present their work to MPs. Rochelle presented research on using yeast to produce anti-HIV vaccines.
- Mar 17, 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
Karen takes on the World Economic Forum
Karen Polizzi will be attending the World Economic Forum to present her latest findings on biosensors in Synthetic Biology along with three other researchers from the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation.
- Oct 20, 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
Susie wins Best Early Career Researcher prize!
Congratulations to Susie for being awarded the prize for the Best Early Career Researcher at ESACT-UK
- Jan 28, 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...
The Institute's Autumn Symposium closed yesterday the 15 November 2012. The two day event brought together an array for researchers with interests in the fields of Systems and Synthetic Biology. The sucessful event saw many informative and inspiration talks, culminating in the book launch of 'Synthetic Biology - A Primer' (Authored by are very own Karen).
Next years symposium will hopefully be as much fun, details of which can be found on the institutes website. But if you can't wait till next autumn the Sixth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology (SB6.0) will be hosted at Imperial in July 2013.
- Oct 20, 2009
Welcome
The Polizzi lab would like to welcome Nick and Hugo, both who will be working in Biosensors
- Oct 20, 2009