Group
Current group members
Gleb Zhelezov is a postdoc at the School of Mathematics, who joined the group in the spring of 2018 to work on stochastic intracelluar transport. In joint work with Natalia Bulgakova (U. Sheffield) and Victor Alfred (U. Sheffield), we have shown that the molecular motors on bi-directional microtubule bundles have distinct roles (kinesin - mixing, and dynein - targeted delivery) (bioRxiv). Gleb also works on modelling the evolution of bird songs (bioRxiv).
Vicente Gomez-Herrera (U. Santiago, Chile) was a visiting undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. We continue working on the continuation of Vicente's undergraduate thesis on intracellular transport.
Previous group members
Aleks Plochocka was a MIGSAA (The Maxwell Institute Graduate School in Analysis & its Applications). She was a PhD student jointly with me and Kevin Painter (Heriot-Watt U.). Together with the experimental group of Natalia Bulgakova (U. Sheffield) and Sandy Davie (U. Edinburgh), Aleks worked on showing that in epithelial cells the self-organisation of microtubule cytoskeleton is robust on the tissue level (bioRxiv). In the second part of her PhD, Aleks worked on the problem of cellular crowding, and showed how it aligns and debundles the microtubule cytoskeleton (bioRxiv). Aleks is now a joint Research Fellow at the Flatiron Institute, at the Center for Computational Biology and the Center for Computational Mathematics.
Paul Seip was a MSc student in Operational Research MSc at School of Mathematics, U. Edinburgh. Paul successfully completed his MSc thesis Learning Faster: Optimizing Training for Deep Neural Networks on comparing the state-of-the-art optimization methods for training deep neural nets. Paul shared the first place student prize for the best performance on the Operational Research MSc programme.