Dr Tansy Hammarton

Senior Lecturer (Parasitology)

telephone: 01413306766
email: Tansy.Hammarton@glasgow.ac.uk

RB625 Level B6, Iii - Sgdb, University Place, Glasgow G12 8TA

Biography

‌I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Infection & Immunity and have a mixed academic portfolio comprising research, teaching and public engagement, as well as leadership roles in Health and Safety.

Research

My current research interests lie in parasitology, with a focus on understanding how kinetoplastid parasites such as trypanosomes and Leishmania replicate and divide. I became interested in the cell cycle of Trypanosoma brucei when I was a postdoctoral research assistant in Jeremy Mottram’s lab and discovered differences in cell cycle regulation between different life cycle stages of the parasite. I went onto obtain research fellowships from the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Research Councils UK (RCUK), followed by an MRC New Investigator Research Grant to investigate the unusual mechanism of cytokinesis in T. brucei and functionally characterise a number of protein kinases and cytoskeletal proteins essential for cell division.

More recently, my research interests have expanded to include Leishmania and other kinetoplastid parasites. Through a bioengineering collaboration with Melanie Jimenez (University of Strathclyde), we have explored microfluidic approaches to separating different parasite cell cycle stages, have developed an event-based camera approach for imaging of parasites and other particles in microfluidic channels, and have carried out studies with Leishmania parasites that have enhanced our understanding of how non-spherical particles focus in microfluidic channels. We have also developed imaging flow cytometry analysis pipelines to enhance cell cycle analysis in Leishmania mexicana, allowing easier visualisation of rare cell cycle stages and resulting in new insights into the fundamental biology of its cell division cycle.

Other current projects in the lab include investigating the evolution of the protein kinome in free-living to pathogenic trypanosomes, and investigating the protein kinase signalling networks that regulate cytokinesis in T. brucei and L. mexicana.

I also have a broader interest in microbiology, stemming from my undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, where I specialised in microbial and parasitic disease and virology, and carried out research on male-killing bacteria in ladybirds, and my PhD studies on the Export of Polysaccharide Capsule in Escherichia coli at the University of Manchester.

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Public Engagement

I have a strong interest in public engagement, which stems from the outreach work I did as an RCUK fellow. I have been a STEM Ambassador since 2005 and over the years, have developed a range of infection biology-related activities for nursery and school pupils aged 2-18 yrs, including school visits and talks, hands-on workshops, a science club and role-playing activities as well as Continuing Professional Development sessions for teachers. I am also a member of the Microbiology in Schools Advisory Committee (MiSAC), have undertaken consultancy work for the Scottish Schools Educational Research Council (SSERC) and am an Associate Editor for the kids’ science journal, Frontiers for Young Minds. I have also taken part in a variety of events to bring science to the general public, including giving public lectures, organising conference sessions for the public and taking part in the Glasgow Science Festival and Pint of Science. I also train undergraduate and postgraduate students in Science Communication and public engagement and am active in championing public engagement activities across the School of Infection and Immunity (SII).

In 2018, my public engagement work was recognised with the award of the Peter Wildy Prize from the Microbiology Society Microbiology Society Peter Wildy Prize 2018: Dr Tansy Hammarton | Microbiology Society.

Other activities

Outside of research and public engagement, I have a strong teaching portfolio, from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, covering topics such as microbiology, parasitology, molecular biology, research skills and science communication (see teaching tab for more details). I have also undertaken numerous Health and Safety roles for the SII, and more widely for the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences (MVLS). For example, I was a member for many years and later chaired the MVLS Genetic Modification 37 committee, and I am currently Chair of the SII Health and Safety committee, a member of the SII Containment Level 3 Management Group and am one of the SII SAPO (Specified Animal Pathogens Order) representatives.

Research interests

Cell division in kinetoplastid parasites

Kinetoplastid parasites, such as the African trypanosome (Trypanosoma brucei spp.) and Leishmania spp. are vector-borne protozoan parasites which cause Neglected Tropical Diseases, so called because they disproportionately affect some of the world’s most impoverished people in tropical areas. T. brucei causes sleeping sickness (humans) and Nagana (livestock) in sub-Saharan Africa and is spread by the bite of infected tsetse flies, while Leishmania parasites cause the leishmaniases, a spectrum of diseases ranging from unsightly, and often stigmatising, skin ulcer to fatal visceral disease, and are spread by sand flies. Leishmaniasis is found in many parts of the world, including Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, and parts of Asia and Europe, and is spreading to new areas in response to climate change. Effective vaccines for these diseases do not exist, and there is a continuing need to extend our drug arsenal against these diseases.

Research in the Hammarton lab is focussed on understanding how these parasites replicate and divide in their hosts, and on uncovering the molecular pathways that control cell division, particularly those involving protein kinases. Protein kinases are key signalling molecules and are known to be druggable. Cell division is not only essential for kinetoplastids to multiply in their hosts but is very divergent from mammalian cell division. Understanding the essential protein kinase signalling pathways regulating cell division is likely to identify novel parasite proteins that could be specifically targeted by new drugs to cure infections. Furthermore, trypanosomes display remarkable cell biology and are useful model organisms for comparative studies with higher eukaryotes; our work on uncovering the regulatory networks involved is shedding light on the evolution of cell division in these important pathogens.‌

In recent years, we have also collaborated with Melanie Jimenez’s lab at the University of Strathclyde to develop and enhance technologies such as microfluidics and imaging flow cytometry to facilitate the study of the kinetoplastid cell cycle, which has provided novel insights into the fundamental biology of these organisms.

‌‌Current projects

Functional analysis of MAK signalling pathways in trypanosomes and Leishmania
Comparative analysis of animal trypanosome kinomes
Signalling through the kinetoplastid cell division cycle
Developing new technologies to facilitate the study of kinetoplastid cell division

Publications

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Number of items: 32.

2025

Howell, Jessie, Hall, Nicole, Omwenga, Sulochana, Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 and Jimenez, Melanie (2025) An experimental investigation into the focusing behaviours of flagellated and elongated cells in inertial microfluidic devices. Analyst, 150(16), pp. 3602-3614. (doi: 10.1039/d4an01288g) (PMID:40626926)

2024

Howell, Jessie, Omwenga, Sulochana, Jimenez, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-0608 and Hammarton, Tansy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2024) Analysis of the Leishmania mexicana promastigote cell cycle using imaging flow cytometry provides new insights into cell cycle flexibility and events of short duration. PLoS ONE, 19(10), e0311367. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311367) (PMID:39361666)

2021

Farthing, A. G. et al. (2021) Sepsis: when a simple infection becomes deadly. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9, 639681. (doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.639681)

2020

Howell, Jessie, Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Altmann, Yoann and Jimenez, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-0608 (2020) High-speed particle detection and tracking in microfluidic devices using event-based sensing. Lab on a Chip, 20(16), pp. 3024-3035. (doi: 10.1039/D0LC00556H) (PMID:32700715)

2019

Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2019) Who needs a contractile actomyosin ring? The plethora of alternative ways to divide a protozoan parasite. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 9, 397. (doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00397) (PMID:31824870) (PMCID:PMC6881465)

2017

Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2017) The remarkable Dr Robertson. Parasitology, 144(12), pp. 1590-1601. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182016002080) (PMID:27876111)

Moreira, Bernardo P., Da Fonseca, Carol K., Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 and Baqui, Munira M.A. (2017) Giant FAZ10 is required for flagellum attachment zone stabilization and furrow positioning in Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Cell Science, 130(6), pp. 1179-1193. (doi: 10.1242/jcs.194308) (PMID:28193733) (PMCID:PMC5358337)

2014

Benz, C., Thomas, E. and Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2014) Trypanosomatid cell division kinases. In: Doerig, C., Späth, G. and Wiese, M. (eds.) Protein Phosphorylation in Parasites: Novel Targets for Antiparasitic intervention. Series: Drug discovery in infectious diseases (5). Wiley Blackwell: Weinheim, pp. 79-98. ISBN 9783527332359 (doi: 10.1002/9783527675401.ch04)

Jones, Nathaniel G., Thomas, Elizabeth B., Brown, Elaine, Dickens, Nicholas J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0492-5855, Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 and Mottram, Jeremy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 (2014) Regulators of Trypanosoma brucei cell cycle progression and differentiation identified using a kinome-wide RNAi screen. PLoS Pathogens, 10(1), e1003886. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003886)

Porcel, B. M. et al. (2014) The streamlined genome of Phytomonas spp. Relative to human pathogenic kinetoplastids reveals a parasite tailored for plants. PLoS Genetics, 10(2), e1004007. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004007)

2013

Monnerat, S., Almeida Costa, C.I., Forkert, A.C., Benz, C., Hamilton, A., Tetley, L., Burchmore, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1663-9004, Novo, C., Mottram, J.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 and Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2013) Identification and functional characterisation of CRK12:CYC9, a novel cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)-cyclin complex in Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e67327. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067327) (PMID:23805309) (PMCID:PMC3689728)

2012

May, Sophie F., Peacock, Lori, Almeida Costa, Cristina I. C., Gibson, Wendy C., Tetley, Laurence, Robinson, Derrick R. and Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2012) The Trypanosoma brucei AIR9-like protein is cytoskeleton-associated and is required for nucleus positioning and accurate cleavage furrow placement. Molecular Microbiology, 84(1), pp. 77-92. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08008.x)

Benz, C., Clucas, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5592-6810, Mottram, J.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 and Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2012) Cytokinesis in bloodstream stage Trypanosoma brucei requires a family of katanins and spastin. PLoS ONE, 7(1), e30367. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030367) (PMID:22279588) (PMCID:PMC3261199)

2010

Ma, Jiangtao, Benz, Corinna, Grimaldi, Raffaella, Stockdale, Christopher, Wyatt, Paul, Frearson, Julie and Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2010) Nuclear DBF-2-related kinases are essential regulators of cytokinesis in bloodstream stage Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285(20), pp. 15356-15368. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M109.074591)

2009

Forsythe, Glynn R., McCulloch, Richard and Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2009) Hydroxyurea-induced synchronisation of bloodstream stage Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 164(2), pp. 131-136. (doi: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.12.008)

Monnerat, Séverine, Clucas, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5592-6810, Brown, Elaine, Mottram, Jeremy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 and Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2009) Searching for novel cell cycle regulators in Trypanosoma brucei with an RNA interference screen. BMC Research Notes, 2(46), (doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-46)

2007

Hammarton, Tansy C., Monnerat, Séverine and Mottram, Jeremy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 (2007) Cytokinesis in trypanosomatids. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 10(6), pp. 520-527. (doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.10.005)

Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Kramer, Susanne, Tetley, Laurence, Boshart, Michael and Mottram, Jeremy C. (2007) Trypanosoma brucei Polo-like kinase is essential for basal body duplication, kDNA segregation and cytokinesis. Molecular Microbiology, 65(5), pp. 1229-1248. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05866.x)

Hammarton, Tansy C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2007) Cell cycle regulation in Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 153(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.01.017)

Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Wickstead, B. and McKean, P.G. (2007) Cell structure, cell division and cell cycle. In: Barry, D. (ed.) Trypanosomes: After the Genome. Horizon Bioscience: Wymondham. ISBN 9781904933274

2005

Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Lillico, S.G., Welburn, S.C. and Mottram, J.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 (2005) Trypanosoma brucei MOB1 is required for accurate and efficient cytokinesis but not for exit from mitosis. Molecular Microbiology, 56(1), pp. 104-116. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04542.x)

Mottram, Jeremy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766, Naula, Christina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-693X, Hammarton, Tansy and Parsons, Marilyn (2005) Protein kinases of trypanosomatids as drug targets. Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters, 10(S2), pp. 69-70.

2004

Hammarton, TC ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Engstler, M and Mottram, JC ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 (2004) The Trypanosoma brucei cyclin, CYC2, is required for cell cycle progression through G(1) phase and for maintenance of procyclic form cell morphology. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279, pp. 24757-24764. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M401276200)

2003

Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Mottram, J.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 and Doerig, C. (2003) The cell cycle of parasitic protozoa: potential for chemotherapeutic exploitation. In: Progress in Cell Cycle Research. Nova Science Publishers Inc., pp. 91-101.

Hammarton, TC ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Clark, J, Douglas, F, Boshart, M and Mottram, JC ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 (2003) Stage-specific differences in cell cycle control in Trypanosoma brucei revealed by RNA interference of a mitotic cyclin. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 22877-22886. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M300813200)

2001

Phoenixa, D.A., Brandenburg, K., Harris, F., Seydel, U., Hammarton, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 and Roberts, I.S. (2001) An investigation into the membrane-interactive potential of the Escherichia coli KpsE C-Terminus. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 285(4), pp. 976-980. (doi: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5266)

Arrecubieta, C., Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Barrett, B., Chareonsudjai, S., Hodson, N., Rainey, D. and Roberts, I.S. (2001) The transport of group 2 capsular polysaccharides across the peripiasmic space in Escherichia coli: roles for the KpsE and KpsD proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276(6), pp. 4245-4250. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M008183200)

2000

Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Ford, Jack R. and Mottram, Jeremy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 (2000) Trypanosoma brucei CYC1 does not have characteristics of a mitotic cyclin. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 111(1), pp. 229-34. (doi: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00308-X)

Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Ford, J.R. and Mottram, J.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-3766 (2000) Analysis of Trypanosoma brucei cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases. Biochemical Society Transactions, 28(5), A480.

1997

Hurst, Gregory D.D., Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Bandi, Claudio, Majereus, Tamsin M.O., Bertsrabs, Dominique and Majereus, Michael E.N. (1997) The diversity of inherited parasites of insects: the male-killing agent of the ladybird beetle Coleomegilla maculata is a member of the Flavobacteria. Genetical Research, 70(01), pp. 1-6.

1996

Simpson, D.A., Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 and Roberts, I.S. (1996) Transcriptional organization and regulation of expression of region 1 of the Escherichia coli K5 capsule gene cluster. Journal of Bacteriology, 178(22), pp. 6466-6474.

Hurst, G.D., Hammarton, T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600, Obrycki, J.J., Majerus, T.M., Walker, L.E., Bertrand, D. and Majerus, M.E. (1996) Male-killing bacterium in a fifth ladybird beetle, Coleomegilla maculata (Coleoptera:Coccinellidae). Heredity, 77, pp. 177-185. (doi: 10.1038/hdy.1996.122)

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Articles

Farthing, A. G. et al. (2021) Sepsis: when a simple infection becomes deadly. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9, 639681. (doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.639681)

Hammarton, Tansy C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-6600 (2017) The remarkable Dr Robertson. Parasitology, 144(12), pp. 1590-1601. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182016002080) (PMID:27876111)

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

ISSF Catalyst: Mapping lipid distribution in Trypanosoma brucei during cell division
Wellcome Trust
2015 - 2017
NDR kinase pathways in bloodstream stage Trypanosoma brucei
Medical Research Council
2009 - 2013
Regulation of cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei
Medical Research Council
2005 - 2009
The development of fluorescent Trypanosoma brucei cell lines as tools for the study of the trypanosome cell division cycle
The Royal Society
2005 - 2006
Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
2005 - 2010
Cell cycle progression in the African trypanosome
Wellcome Trust
2004 - 2007

Supervision

Current PhD students

Sulochana Omwenga: Identification and validation of novel Leishmaniasis drug targets through comparative molecular analysis of individual Leishmania parasite cell cycle stages isolated using microfluidics. Funder: The Cunningham Trust. Supervisors: Tansy Hammarton and Melanie Jimenez.

Saleh Alquarni: Analysis of amino acid permeases of Leishmania. Funder: The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. Supervisors: Richard Burchmore and Tansy Hammarton.

Previous PhD students

Thesis titles, completion dates, funders, supervisors and next destinations are shown.

Olubukola Owolodun: Functional Characterisation of a Male Germ Cell-Associated Kinase Orthologue (MAK) in the Kinetoplastid Cell Cycle (2025). Funder: TetFund. Supervisors: Tansy Hammarton and Richard McCulloch. Onward destination: postdoctoral research in Emma Briggs’ lab, Newcastle University.

Jessie Howell: Using microfluidics to separate and study kinetoplastid parasites (2023). Funder: EPSRC. Supervisors: Melanie Jimenez (University of Strathclyde), Tansy Hammarton and Julien Reboud. Onward destination: postdoctoral research in Melanie Jimenez's lab, University of Strathclyde and then in Yoann Altmann's lab, Heriot-Watt University.

Bernardo Pereira Moreira: Analysis of FAZ10 in bloodstream form T. brucei. Visiting PhD student from Munira Baqui’s lab, Sao Paulo (2015-2016). Funded by CAPES. Onward destinations: postdoctoral research at University of Nottingham, FIOCRUZ and Justus Liebig University, Giessen.

Helena Maritza De la Torre Olvera: Analysis of protein kinase pathways regulating cytokinesis and endocytosis (2019). Funder: SENESCYT. Supervisors: Tansy Hammarton and Jeremy Mottram. Onward destinations: University lecturer at Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabi and then Universidad Técnica de Ambato.

Elizabeth Thomas: Signalling pathways regulating cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei (2014). Funders: MRC & BBSRC. Supervisors: Tansy Hammarton and Jeremy Mottram. Onward destinations: postdoctoral research at University of Washington and Washington State University.

Cristina Costa: Generating monoclonal antibodies against Trypanosoma brucei cell cycle regulators (2012). International PhD student from Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Supervisors: Carlos Novo and Tansy Hammarton. Onward destination: mycology research in the food industry.

Sophie May: Regulation of cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei (2010). Funder: MRC. Supervisor: Tansy Hammarton. Onward destination: clinical mycologist, NHS.

Previous MSc by Research students

Glynn Forsythe: DNA damage in Trypanosoma brucei. Funder: MRC. Supervisor: Tansy Hammarton and Richard McCulloch.

Teaching

I undertake a range of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching duties, including giving lectures, leading workshops and labs, supervising dissertations and research projects, marking and examining student work, and developing and leading courses and programmes.

I am currently involved in the following teaching:

Undergraduate

Level 2 Microbiology and Immunology – lectures, labs and assessment
L3 Medical Microbiology – lectures, workshops, labs and assessment
L4 Microbiology – lectures and assessment
BSc Research Projects - supervision and assessment (various degree programmes)
Advisor of Studies for undergraduate students

Postgraduate

MSc

MSc in Infection Biology - Programme Director
Research Skills in Immunology and Infection Biology - lectures and labs
Host Pathogen Interactions - essay supervision and assessment
Designing a Research Project – lectures and student supervision
MSc Research Projects – supervision and assessment (various degree programmes)
Mentor for postgraduate taught students

PhD

PhD ‘How do I engage the public with my research’ – Course Leader
Assessor for postgraduate research students

Previous roles have included Level 1 teaching, coordinating Level 2 microbiology, leading Level 3 tutorials and working with Head of College Scholars' List students.

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

2018: Peter Wildy Prize (Microbiology Society)
2011: Finalist in UK awards "Most dedicated STEM Ambassador" category (STEMNet UK)
2011: Partnership grant 'Microbiology in the Media - don't believe everything you read!' in partnership with Miss Jenny Hewitt, Hillhead High School, Glasgow (Royal Society)

Research fellowships

2005 - 2009: MRC Career Development Fellowship
2005 - 2010: Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship

Grant committees & research advisory boards

2022 - 2027: Royal Society, International Exchanges Panel

Editorial boards

2018 - present: Frontiers for Young Minds. Associate Editor - Understanding Health section
2015 - 2017: Eukaryotic Cell. Editorial Board

Professional & learned societies

2021 - present: Member, Microbiology Society
2009 - present: Fellow, Higher Education Academy
2007 - 2020: Member, Biochemical Society
1999 - present: Member, British Society for Parasitology

Selected international presentations

2022: Invited seminar (Biozentrum, Universität Würzburg)
2016: Invited talk, Trypanosomatid parasites - from the field to the lab IV. 'Regulation of cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei' (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
2011: Plenary talk, IX Argentinean Congress of Protozoology and Parasitic Diseases. 'Cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei - some insights in to how trypanosomes divide'. (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
2011: Invited talk, Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology Meeting IV. 'The complexities of cell division in Trypanosoma brucei.' (Woods Hole, Massachussets, USA)
2010: 3rd Conference on Protein Kinases of Parasitic Protozoa. 'Regulation and function of NDR kinases in Trypanosoma brucei' (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2009: Microbiologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire et Pathogenicite Dept. 'Cell division in the African trypanosome' (University of Bordeaux, France)
2006: COST Action B22 meeting, University of Glasgow. 'Protein kinases involved in cell proliferation: differentiation and homeostasis: targets for anti-protozoal chemotherapy' (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
2004: Invited seminar (Dept. of Biochemistry, Melbourne University, Australia)

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2024 Member of Microbiology Society Prize Award Panel 2021-present Microbiology Society representative on the Microbiology in Schools Advisory Committee

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