Organelle Dynamics Laboratory

We are a discovery research lab exploring how cells remodel their membranes and organelles, We want to know how the machineries that perform this remodelling are regulated and how they contribute to cellular and organismal health. 

Our Research

Every cell in your body is enclosed by a lipid membrane and contains a variety of intracellular membrane bound compartments called organelles that compartmentalise the biochemical functions necessary for life. We are interested in the membrane trafficking pathways that allow communication between these organelles, how the integrity of these organellar membranes is maintained and how these membranes and organelles are reorganised during processes such as cell division and cell migration

See also our website at The Francis Crick Institute and King’s College London

Meet the Team

Jez Carlton
Group Leader
Jez did a B.A. in Natural Sciences (Cambridge), a Ph.D in Biochemistry (Bristol) and a postdoc in the Department of Infectious Diseases at King’s College London. He is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences at King's College London. 
Guy Pearson
Postdoc

Guy joined the lab after completing a PhD from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and an undergraduate degree from Oxford. He is using a mixture of light microscopy, electron microscopy and proteomics to understand how membrane trafficking complexes function. 

Georgina Starling
Postdoc

Georgina joined us after completing a PhD from the university of Sheffield. She works across my lab and the Adrian Isaacs lab at the UCL UK-DRI. George is developing assays to understand how membrane and organellar integrity is preserved. 

Matteo Burigotto
Postdoc

Matteo joined the lab in 2023 after a PhD under the direction of Luca Fava in the Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of Cell Division, University of Trento. 

Iona Lim-Manley
Postdoc

Iona is a postdoc who completed a PhD in the Gruneberg lab at the Dunn School in Oxford. Iona will be looking at organelle remodelling during cell division. 

Shanila Fernandez
PhD Student

Shanila is a BBSRC LIDO student jointly supervised with Kevin Litchfield at the UCL Cancer Institute. She holds a Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College and is studying how nonsense mediated decay is regulated

Lucian Heeler
Ph.D student

Lucian is a BiPAS PhD student from King's College London, supervised by Prof Mark Wallace in King's Chemistry. He is using in-vitro approaches to look at ESCRT assembly. 

Alicja Skwara
Ph.D Student

Alicja is a CRUK City of London PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Vicky Sanz-Moreno from the Bart's Cancer Institute at QMUL. Alicja will be looking at nuclear envelope remodelling in melanoma.

Iulia Vermesan
Research Assistant

Iulia joined the lab after an undergraduate degree from Imperial College London

Matija Conic
Ph.D student

Matija joined us as a BBSRC LIDO Ph.D student and is working on plasma membrane repair

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