Past members

Peng Wang obtained a degree in Biochemistry from Bristol and carried out his PhD with us from 2007 working on new ER proteins that have an effect on the secretory pathway. He characterised two arabidopsis proteins KMS1 and KMS2 which are multi-pass ER membrane proteins and somehow involved in ER to Golgi transport. . From 2010 to 2011 Peng worked as a postdoc. on a Leverhulme funded project. He looked at the potential role of VAP proteins in ER anchoring and on the role of reticulons at the cell plate in BY2 cells.  Peng has moved to Patrick Hussey's lab. in Durham and is working on actin associated proteins in plants.

Jan Evins: Jan joined the groupin 1995 as a research technician, and worked with PhD students, post doctoral researchers and technicians. She helped with microscopy, especially confocal microscopy, and looks after the group's greenhouse.  Jan retired in December 2011 but stil returns to help us with sceince outreach activities.

Barry Martin: Was laboratory manager for the Bioimaging group for 22 years, and was responsible for maintaining the laboratory. he retired to Yorshire in 2011 to grow plants and keep bees.

Eric Hummel Joined the group in 2006 after completing his PhD at the University of Heidelberg on the plant Golgi. He is an electron microscopist and was working on a BBSRC funded project using high pressure freezing and tomography to look at Golgi structure and Golgi regeneration after dissolution. Eric now runs the imaging unit at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Sarah Irons

Sarah was a postdoctoral research assistant funded under the EU Framework VI Pharma-Planta project. She joined the group in July 2004 after completing her PhD at Oxford Brookes University in plant nuclear envelope dynamics. The project involves providing microscopy services for the Pharma-Planta consortium. The work will also include the production of fluorescent protein constructs, which will be used for location studies in tobacco, and to examine the effect of regulatory proteins on targeting and expression levels. Sarah is currently working as a postdoc. in the Radiation Biology Group at Oxford Brookes. sarahirons@brookes.ac.uk

Verena Kriechbaumer

Verena carried out her PhD research at the technical University, Munich and joined the group for 6 months to work on Golgi matrix proteins. She is now carrying out postdoctoral research at Sheffield Hallam University. V.Kriechbaumer@shu.ac.uk

Claudine Carvalho

Claudine completed her PhD on the identification of host factors that participate in virus movement processes in the Department of Plant Science, University of Wageningen and joined the group in March 2004. She worked on a BBSRC sponsored project on Golgi matrix proteins. The project was a collaboration with the group of Dr Karl Oparka, formally of the SCRI, Dundee who had a SEERAD funded researcher working on the same programme. Claudine is currently working at the University of Viçosa, Brazil. ccarvalho@vicosa.ufv.br

Kentaro Tamura

Kentaro was a postdoctoral research fellow funded by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. He joined the group in March 2006 after completing his PhD at Kyoto University in plant endomembrane research. His project is to identify Golgi mutants in Arabidopsis, and to isolate genes involved in the function of the Golgi in plant cells. He has now returned to Japan to a permanent position at the University of Kyoto. tamura@gr.bot.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Maité Vicre

Maïté joined the group in July 2003. Prior to that she did her PhD thesis on cell wall analysis in resurrection plants, at the University of Cape Town in South Africa in collaboration with the Université de Rouen in France. Then she came back to work at the Université de Rouen as a teacher in plant physiology, whilst doing research at the Centre Commun de Microscopie Electronique. At Brookes, she researched into the plant endomembrane system using high pressure freezing and transmission electron microscopy. She is now teaching at the University of Rouen. Maite.Vicre@univ-rouen.fr

Federica Brandizzi

Fede began her career at Oxford Brookes in 1999, as a BBSRC postdoctoral researcher. She continued with a one year research fellowship, and became a temporary lecturer helping develop master's courses. Fede specialized in the dynamics of the endomembrane system, investigated by fluorescent proteins. She developed photobleaching techniques for investigating protein transfer between the ER and Golgi now routinely used in our laboratory.

In September 2003, Fede became a lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada and is now an Associate Professor at Michigan State University. brandizz@msu.edu

Ulla Neumann

Ulla joined the group in May 2001. Prior to that she worked in Paris, teaching botany and plant ecology at the Pierre & Marie Curie University. At Brookes, she researched into the dynamics of the plant endomembrane system, and worked with the BBSRC sponsored high pressure freezer. Ulla returned to Germany in July 2003 and is now working as an electron microscopist at the Max-Planck Institute, Cologne. 520004424174-0001@t-online.de

Sasha Andreeva

Sasha joined the group in 1994 as a postdoctoral assistant funded by the University and by the BBSRC working on proteins of the Golgi-ER interface.. She left the group in 2001 and is now at the University of Illinois, Chicago. aandreev@uic.edu

Beatrice Statiat-Jeunemaitre

Joined the group in 1989 and idscovered that our clathrin monoclonal recognised plant Golgi bodies.  That is why we now work on the Golgi!  She now runs the Cell Biology Platform at the CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette. Beatrice.Satiat-Jeunemaitre@isv.cnrs-gif.fr

Janey Henderson

Joined the lab. in 1994 and worked on targeting of the maize auxin binding protein. She is now at the University of Northumbria.