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WHAT WE DO

We are a collaboratory network 

We are the London Infection Postdoc Network, a multi-institutional platform that supports scientific and social exchange among young career researchers working on Infection Biology in London. 

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We organise events and create virtual spaces that help postdocs to:

  • Foster knowledge and technical exchange.

  • Increase collaborations.

  • Present and expose their work to a bigger, like-minded critical audience.

  • Expand networking opportunities.

  • Promote and adverse opportunities for career development.

  • Raise and discuss career related issues.

WHO WE ARE

LIPN Committee

We are postdocs from various academic institutes in London working on infection biology (virus, bacteria, parasites).

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FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE​

  • Jakson Luk

  • Janina Muench

  • Marion Delphin 

  • Valwynne Faulkner

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IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

  • Julia Sánchez Garrido

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BIRBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

  • Natalie Al-Otaibi

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LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE​​

  • Dominik Brokatzky 

  • Zoe Dyson 

 

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

  • Ann-Kathrin Reuschl

  • Matthew Whelan

  • Ziqi Zhou

  • Oscar Torres

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QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

  • Josephine Nemegeer

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LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

  • Caroline Weight

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PAST MEMBERS:

Ana Teresa López Jiménez (LSHTM)

Leo Swadling (UCL)

Margarida Castro-Gomes (LSHTM)

Tapoka Mkandawire (Francis Crick)

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Marion Delphin (she/her)

The Francis Crick Institute

Marion Delphin completed her PhD under the direction of Dr. Julie Lucifora, in the HepVir team headed up by Dr. David Durantel (CIRI, Lyon - France) on the role of liver macrophages in the chronic infection by the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV). She is now undertaking a postdoctoral position in Prof. Philippa Matthews's team at the Francis Crick Institute, working on the impact of HBV sequence diversity on the immune system and subsequent liver diseases outcomes.

https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/marion-delphin

@MarionDelphin

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Zoe Dyson (she/her)

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Zoe Anne Dyson is an Assistant Professor within LSHTM’s Department of Infection Biology working to establish the TyphiNET (https://typhi.net) and AMRnet online Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance platforms. Zoe is a computational and laboratory microbiologist specialising in understanding the genetic epidemiology, transmission dynamics, spread, and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in the bacterial agents that cause enteric fever (Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi A). Zoe has a BComp/BAppSc (Hons) majoring in Computer Science and Biotechnology, and a PhD in Microbiology. Zoe is a founder and coordinator of the Global Typhoid Genomics Consortium (typoidgenomics.org), and an editor for the journal mSystems.

 

Staff profile: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/dyson.zoe

 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-dyson-9b2752b7/

 

Twitter/X: @msmicrobiocode

Ziqi Zhou

University College London

Ziqi Zhou did her PhD training with Malik Peiris at the University of Hong Kong. Her PhD research focused on unravelling a fascinating mystery: Why were there no reported cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in humans in Africa? To shed light on it, she genetically and phenotypically characterized camel MERS-CoVs obtained by African surveillance studies, in comparison with those infecting humans in the Arabian Peninsula. Now she continues her virology journey on coronaviruses as a Postdoc in Greg Towers’s lab in UCL. She's thrilled to explore how virus-host response of coronaviruses impact their ability to cause pandemic and pathogenicity in humans.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziqi-zhou-6210a1100/

Twitter: @ZiqiZhou13

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Jakson Luk (he/him)

The Francis Crick Institute

Jakson received his MPhil at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and later pursued his PhD at the Institut Pasteur, Paris. During his study at Institut Pasteur, he was a member of the Unité Dynamique des Interactions Hôte-Pathogène, under the supervision of Jost Enninga. His work focused on the development of multiplex fluorescent systems to study the different intracellular behaviours of Salmonella. In Fall 2020, Jakson defended his thesis and moved across the English Channel to join the Host-Pathogen Interactions in Tuberculosis Laboratory at The Francis Crick Institute, London. Here, Jakson works on different interdisciplinary systems to understand the host-pathogen interactions in Tuberculosis, by applying his skillset ranging from molecular genetics to high-content imaging.

Profession website: https://scholars.croucher.org.hk/scholars/chak-hon-jakson-luk

X: @LukJakson https://twitter.com/LukJakson

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakson-luk-2baa95114/

Caroline Weight (she/her)

Lancaster University

Caroline received her PhD from the Institute of Food Research and the University of East Anglia working on the infection mechanisms of Toxoplasma gondii in the small intestine. She undertook her first postdoctoral position at Emory University, Atlanta USA investigating tight junction protein signalling in the context of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Following on, she translated her signalling work experience to T cell biology at Lund University in Sweden, under sponsorship from the Wenner Gren Foundation. Caroline was a Senior Research Fellow in Prof. Heyderman’s lab at UCL from 2015-2023 where her research focussed on the control of colonisation of Streptococcus pneumoniae by the human nasopharyngeal epithelium. Caroline is now an independent group leader and Lecturer in Biomedical and Life Sciences at Lancaster University. Her lab contributes towards the development of technological advancements to the field of respiratory infection in humans.   

 

Staff profile: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/health-and-medicine/about-us/people/caroline-weight

 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-weight-955844189

 

Twitter/X: @weightcaroline

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Julia Sanchez-Garrido (she/her)

Imperial College London

Julia did her PhD at Imperial College London, under Dr. Avinash Shenoy in the dept of Infectious Diseases. During her PhD she studied the role of caspase substrates in caspase-mediated signalling cascades, focussing on caspase-1, mainly linked to inflammasome activation, and caspase-8, involved in tissue development, apoptosis and immunomodulation. Julia is now a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Life Sciences with Professor Gad Frankel, working on host-pathogen dynamics at the mucosal interface in two different in vivo models : Citrobacter rodentium in the gut and Klebsiella pneumoniae in the lung. C. rodentium is a natural mouse-adapted pathogen that causes colitis in a type III secretion injectisome dependent manner, while K. pneumoniae on the other hand relies on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes and virulence factors such as its capsule to escape our defences and cause disease. Julia also is a departmental postdoc representative at Imperial, and really enjoys science outreach , both within the college and outside (e.g. https://www.nativescientists.org/ and going to schools to give short talks).

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Staff profile: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/julia.sanchez-garrido08 (She is not a lab manager!)

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-s%C3%A1nchez-garrido-542a1366/

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Twitter/X: @JuliaSanchezBio

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