Current members
Roberto A Steiner
Professor
Roberto graduated in Chemistry from the University of Padova. He then moved on to study for his PhD in structural biology at the University of Groningen followed by a postdoc in crystallographic methods development at the York Structural Biology Laboratory. Soon after he started his own lab at King's College London (KCL).
He hasn't yet found a sport he doesn't like.
Former postdocs
Stefano Pernigo
Postdoc (2011-2017)
Stefano stayed in the lab after his PhD working on projects funded first by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and then by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). As soon as he left the lab he joined Charles River Laboratories where he is now Senior Scientist.
Ivan Campeotto
Postdoc (2011)
Passionate crystallographer. After a short period in the lab he moved to Imperial College and then Oxford. Now an independent investigator at Nottingham Trent University.
Past PhD students
Guest PhD students
Giulia Glorani
PhD student (2017-2018)
Registered for a 3-year PhD at the University of Verona, Giulia ended up spending one year in my lab working on kinesin-1 and contributing to our 2018 eLife paper. She then moved for her first postdoc to the Neu Lab at the Freie Universität Berlin working on structural glycovirology.
Master students
The lab has had the privilege of hosting several excellent Master students for typically 6-8 months long projects. Here is a semi-complete list (apologies if I have forgotten someone...)
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Mr Samuel Lowden (went on to train and work as a patent attorney)
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Mr Conor Tracey (went on to do a PhD in the Ameer-Lab at KCL)
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Miss Fiona Shilliday (BBSRC rotation student - went on for her final project in the Moores lab at Birkbeck)
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Miss Anka Lucic (went on to do a PhD at the University of Oxford in the Schofield lab)
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Miss Mengjia Zhu (went on to work at a biotech in China)
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Miss Helen Armes (went on to do a PhD at the University of Sussex)
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Miss Lucy Vyletova (went on to work at the Institute of Cancer Research in the Wigley lab)
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Undergrad project students
Many good ones. You know who you are.
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