Current Fellows
Professor Tom Baden
Title of Research Project
Anisotropic retinal circuits for processing of colour and space in nature.
Other Information
MIT Technology Review, Europe. “Innovators under 35″, 2016
Eppendorf & Nature. Young European Investigator Award, 2017
Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), 2019
Granted Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2020
Awarded Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact, 2019
Awarded the Boehringer Igeleim FENS research Awards, 2022
Voted onto the IBRO PERC Committee, 2022
Elected Member of EMBO, 2023
Dr Elizabeth Ballou
Title of Research Project
Investigating how cross-kingdom microbial partnerships impact fungal pathogenesis of the causative agents of Mucormycosis
Dr David Bending
Regulation of T cell receptor signalling dynamics during T follicular helper cell responses
Professor Tanmay Bharat
Title of Research Project
In situ structural studies of the functional organisation and inhibition of the BAM complex in Gram-negative bacteria
Other information
Awarded International Prize Scholarship, Vallee Foundation, USA, 2018
Awarded John Kendrew Award, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 2019
Selected for a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Biological Sciences, Leverhulme Trust UK, 2020
Selected as an EMBO Young Investigator, 2020
Awarded Eppendorf Young European Investigator Award, 2021
Awarded Colworth Medal, The Biochemical Society, 2022
Awarded Fleming Prize, The Microbiology Society, 2023
Finalist for the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists UK , 2024
Professor Timothy Blower
BREX and phage-bacteria interactions.
Dr Alexander Borodavka
Title of Research Project
From Single Molecules to Whole Viruses: A New View on Viral Assembly and Replication in Cells.