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Group
leader
 Dr.
Mark
van der Giezen (m.vandergiezen{at}exeter.ac.uk).
I originally
studied
unusual hydrogen-producing mitochondria, called hydrogenosomes, of
anaerobic fungi. This was part of my PhD in the
Netherlands in the group of the late Rudolf Prins (University of Groningen)
and of my
EMBO Fellowship in the
lab of Martin
Embley (now at Newcastle)
at the Natural
History
Museum in
London. Subsequently, I worked on mitochondrial remnants
called mitosomes from the human
parasites Entamoeba histolytica
and Giardia
intestinalis in the lab of Jorge
Tovar
at Royal
Holloway.
In 2004 I became Lecturer in Microbiology at Queen Mary,
University of London. After my recent appointment as Senior Lecturer in
Evolutionary Biochemistry at the University of Exeter
we have moved the lab to this beautiful part of the UK. Here we
continue our
study of mitochondrial remnants in whatever shape or form they appear.
Office: GP213a, tel.: +44 1392 723483
Post-docs
Dr. Kailash Chand
(k.chand{at}exeter.ac.uk).
Recently
arrived from the lab of Phil Rosenthal in San Francisco where he worked
on Plasmodium
cysteine proteases.
Office: GP314, tel.: +44 1392 729296.
PhD-students
 Maria Siegesmund
(ms350{at}exeter.ac.uk).
I
have graduated from the University of Goettingen, Germany with a
Masters in Biology in 2007. The results of my master research warranted
a first authorship in an article in the Journal of Phycology.
In October 2007, I started my PhD in Mark van der Giezen's lab in
Exeter. Throughout my studies I was always interested in microbial
life, its evolution and especially its adaptations to unusual
environments. My PhD centers around the peculiar mitochondria of the
human intestinal parasite Entamoeba histolytica
using molecular and biochemical tools.
Office:
GP312, tel.: +44 1392 729296.
Undergraduates
Abigail
Terry (alt207{at}exeter.ac.uk).
Stephanie
Zahorodnyj (sz227{at}exeter.ac.uk).
 Kim
Appleby (ka247{at}exeter.ac.uk).
I am
currently studying Biological
Sciences at the University of Exeter.
Having finished my second year I
knew that I wanted to do research in the areas of molecular biology and
microbiology. So, I am currently undertaking my year 3 project
in this lab
where I am working on several genes of a harmful parasitic pathogen.
One of
these genes codes for an unusual enzyme which will hopefully prove to
be an
important drug target, benefitting millions people every year. I hope
that this
hugely beneficial experience will help me to go on to do a
PhD. I hope to be working on human pathogens
in order to benefit others.
Alumni
Ifeanyi Nwachukwu. MSc
Biocatalysis students (2009), now PhD-student in Aachen,
Germany.
Nebibe Mutlu.
Erasmus placement student (Summer 2009).
Kim Appleby. Wellcome
Trust Vacation Scholar (Summer 2009).
Dr. Karleigh
Hamblin. PhD-student (2005-2008), now at the
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down.
Dr. Matthew
Rogers. Post-doc (2007-2008), now at the Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute, Hinxton.
Phuong
'Fiona' Luong. Research
Assistant (2005-2007), now at the Institute of Cancer of the
Barts and the London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Veronica Comper. Wellcome
Trust Vacation Scholar (Summer 2007), now PhD-student with Richard
Nichols and James Cotton at Queen Mary, University of London.
Maria
Volynchuk. Nuffield Foundation summer student (Summer
2006).
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