Scotland 2022
Prof Dr Eva Gluenz
Principal Investigator
Bio
Since August 2022 Professor of Molecular Parasitology (Extraordinaria), Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern
2021-22 Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
2020-21 Senior Research Fellow | Royal Society URF at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, University of Glasgow
2012-20 Fellow by Special Election at St Edmund Hall, Oxford
2011-20 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
2009-10 Retaining Fee Lecturer in Pathology at Trinity College Oxford
2004-11 Postdoc, University of Oxford
2005 PhD London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
2000 MSc (Dipl. Phil.-nat) Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Read more about me, and why I study Leishmania, here and a Thinkpiece on changes for better research.
Dr Ruth Etzensperger
Senior Research Assistant and Lab Manager
Dr Sophia Fochler
Postdoc
Studies axonemal dyneins and the role of cyclic nucleotides in the regulation of flagellar motility.
Dr Tamara Sternlieb
Postdoc
Develops and applies new genetic tools for the study of Leishmania proteins.
Çağla Alagöz
PhD student
Studies the function of V-ATPase in Leishmania.
Himaja Manjunatha
PhD student
Studies the function of PKA in Leishmania motility.
Ana Raquel Pereira
Research Assistant
Generates Leishmania gene deletion libraries with CRISPR-Cas9.
Sidonie Aellig
Research Assistant
Generates Leishmania gene deletion libraries with CRISPR-Cas9.
Mattias Benninger
Research Assistant
Studies flagellar. structure with expansion microscopy.
Jennifer Spurr
MSc Student
Studies Leishmania proton pumps.
Past Lab Members (PhD and MSc students, Postdocs and RAs)
Sandro Möri MSc 2024-25.
Andreia Albuquerque Wendt Postdoc 2018-24. Is now on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship in Prague and Basel.
Jeziel Dener Damasceno Postdoc 2021-22. Is now a Postdoc in the McCulloch lab in Glasgow.
Matthew Young Research Assistant 2021-22. Continued as a Research Assistant at WCIP.
James Smith Research Assistant 2017-22. Left for Australia to study for a PhD.
Ciaran McCoy Postdoc 2017-20. Is now an Assistant Professor at ITM Antwerp.
Tom Beneke DPhil 2019. Thesis title: Dissecting the function of the Leishmania flagellum in a CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen. Current position: EMBO and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Würzburg.
Ross Madden Research Assistant 2014-15. Now works as a software developer.
Jessica Valli DPhil 2017. Thesis title: The Role of the Leishmania mexicana amastigote flagellum in parasite-host Interactions. Now works as Microscope Facility Manager at Edinburgh Super Resolution Imaging Consortium, Heriot-Watt University.
Laura Makin DPhil 2017. Thesis title: Secretion from the Leishmania flagellum as a potential mechanism for virulence factor delivery. Went on to study medicine.
Michael Fiebig DPhil 2014 (co-supervised with K. Gull). Thesis title: Characterisation of the transcriptomes of Leishmania mexicana promastigotes and amastigotes. Is now Vice President Product Portfolio & Innovation at Absolute Antibody.
Richard Wheeler DPhil 2012 (co-supervised with K. Gull). Thesis title: Generation, regulation and function of morphology in Leishmania and Trypanosoma. Is now a PI at Edinburgh.
& many wonderful BSc and project students, interns and visiting researchers
