Daisy Holgate

UNIQ+ Student
Tel.: 01865 275532
e-mail: daisyholgate04@outlook.com

Daisy has finished her second year studying Biology at Keble College, University of Oxford. She joined the lab as part of the UNIQ+ programme, where she spent 7 weeks investigating the dynamics of centriolar proteins using fluorescence microscopy and computational analysis.

 

 

Saad Yawar

UNIQ+ Student
Tel.: 01865 275532
e-mail: saad.yawar@visiting.ox.ac.uk

Saad is a medical student at the GKT medical school (King’s College London). He has recently also completed an intercalated Bachelors at Imperial. He joined the Raff Lab as a summer research intern through the UNIQ+ programme to explore pre-clinical research and graduate studies for 7 weeks. At the lab he carried out fluorescence microscopy to image centriole proteins, image processing using Fiji, and data analysis on Graphpad and Excel. Saad plans to implement the valuable skills he has learnt during his time at Oxford in the near future as an academic doctor.

 

 

Rohan Rana

Summer Student
Tel.: 01865 275532
e-mail: rohanr13@hotmail.com

Rohan has just finished his first year studying Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He joined the lab as a summer student through a studentship given by his college, Gonville and Caius. His work focussed on investigating the temporal dynamics of three core proteins necessary for centrosome assembly.

 

 

Lorena Blaya Martinez

Biochemistry 4th year
Tel.: 01865 275532
e-mail: lorena.blaya@hertford.ox.ac.uk

Lorena is a fourth year Biochemistry student at Oxford University. For Part II of her Integrated Master's degree, she joined the Raff Lab for a one-year project studying centrosome assembly in the Drosophila embryo.

 

 

Lauren Lee

Summer Student
Tel.: 01865 275532
e-mail: leelauren2003@gmail.com

Lauren has finished her first year studying Biochemistry at Imperial College London. She has joined the lab as a summer student interested in gaining insight into working in a lab. Her time will be spent investigating different splicing variants of various PCM proteins.

 

 

Keeley Dennett

UNIQ+ Student
Tel.: 01865 275532
e-mail: keeleyd02@icloud.com

Keeley is a third year MBiol Biology student at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and has joined us through the UNIQ+ programme. Keeley will be gaining experience of what it is like to work in a lab as a graduate student and will focus her UNIQ+ project on centriole duplication in Drosophila embryos.

 

 

Maya Lewis

UNIQ+ Student
Tel.: 01865 275532
e-mail: mayalewis1602@gmail.com

Maya is a third year BSc Biomedical Science student at University of Bristol, and has joined through the UNIQ+ programme as a summer intern. Maya will be gaining experience of what it is like to work in a lab as a graduate student and will focus her project on centriole duplication in Drosophila embryos.

 

 

Aashna Saini

Summer Student 2023
e-mail: aashnasaini.ma22@nsut.ac.in

Aashna, a master's student from India studying Psychology, joined the lab to enrich her laboratory knowledge with hands-on experience. She diligently observed and learned from members of the Raff lab, from May to July 2023. In addition to her commitment to the lab, Aashna was an active participant in the Dunn School Green Group, contributing significantly to the Dunn School's green initiatives.

 

 

Katie Booth

Biomedical Science 2nd year
e-mail: katie.booth@seh.ox.ac.uk

Katie is a second year Biomedical Science student completing her Integrated Master’s degree at Oxford University. She joined the Raff lab in order to complete her 8 week research project for her FHS studies in which she learnt techniques including embryo collection, embryo injection and confocal microscopy as well as analysing these images using Image J and Trackmate. Katie will continue to use the data from her time in the lab to complete a presentation and write up as part of her 3rd year studies.

 

 

Eleanor Monkman

UNIQ+ 2022

Eleanor is about to start an international study year of Biomedical Science degree at Keele University. She joined the Raff lab as a UNIQ+ summer intern. During her time at the lab, she and other interns worked to create movies of centriole development, to then be analysed later with ImageJ and TrackMate. Alongside this, she learnt other various important skills such as PCR, embryo injecting etc. Eleanor plans to implement the valuable skills she has learnt during her time here, into her final year dissertation project.

 

Emmanuel Moore

UNIQ+ 2022

Emmanuel completed his second year at the University of Warwick studying Chemistry. He joined the Raff lab as a summer research intern through the UNIQ+ programme. During his internship, Emmanuel carried out data analysis on the growth and movement of centrioles in Drosophila embryos using ImageJ and Graphpad. He also learned about the different phenotypes of fruit flies and how to distinguish them from one another.

 

Max Tuggle

Summer Student 2022

Max is a third-year student at the University of Plymouth enrolled on a BSc Biomedical science degree. He joined the Raff lab as a summer student intern primarily to work on the analysis of specific proteins which are involved in centriole assembly. Techniques involved required the collection of embryos, the use of a confocal microscope, and ImageJ software to produce the data.

 

Maria Eppey

Biochemistry 4th year

Maria studied at the University of Oxford (2018-2022), completing a 4 year Integrated Masters in Biochemistry. During her degree, she has played a prominent role in the Oxford University Chemistry and Biochemistry Society, as Event's Officer and later, Secretary. She carried out a summer placement in Alessio Vagnoni's lab, Kings College London, working on characterising and manipulating protein complexes involved in neuronal mitochondrial trafficking, using Drosophila as a disease model. She worked with the Raff Lab on understanding the dynamics behind centrosome maturation.

 

Priya Ahmed

UNIQ+ 2021

Priya did her undergraduate integrated masters degree in Biochemical Engineering at University College London, graduating in the summer of 2021. The same summer she secured a placement on the UNIQ+ programme by University of Oxford, joining the Raff Lab as a summer research intern. During her time at the lab she worked alongside another intern on the analysis of microscopic images in order to understand the dynamics of centriole assembly. She worked primarily with the ImageJ software, and utilised the TrackMate plug-in to track centriole movement.

 

Filiz Goktas

UNIQ+ 2021

Filiz is about to complete her BSc Biomedical degree from the University of Surrey. She joined the Raff lab for a summer internship and assisted in the ‘Data Analysis of Organelle Assembly’ project with another intern. Filiz learned important data analysis skills and how to use ImageJ software. She will be implementing the skills gained in this internship in her final year dissertation.

 

 

Eline van Houtum

Masters Internship 2018-19

Eline joined the Raff lab for 8 months (2018-2019) to perform an internship as part of her Master studies in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands). During her internship, she generated fly lines in which centriolar proteins are fluorescently tagged using CRISPR-Cas9, supervised by Thomas. Also, she studied Plk4 oscillation during centriole biogenesis, supervised by Mo. Eline is now doing a PhD at the Radiotherapy and OncoImmunology laboratory (Radboudumc, Nijmegen).