Marcela Lipovsek came to us as a Leverhulme Trust-funded post-doc in 2016, and stayed for 5 years with additional support from the ERC. She revolutionised our approach to cell heterogeneity and plasticity with cutting-edge single-cell -omics techniques. In 2021 she obtained a highly prestigious Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to set up her own lab at UCL’s Ear Institute, but that’s just down the road so luckily we still see her all the time…
Lorcan Browne was a post-doc in the lab funded by ERC and BBSRC grants from 2018 to 2022. He helped us pioneer Patch-Seq experiments in small interneurons, and recorded a heap of high-quality electrophysiology data on plasticity and regeneration in the olfactory system.
Candida Tufo first joined us as a KCL undergraduate project student in 2016, and came back to do her PhD from 2017-2021 on plasticity in adult-born olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons. She’s currently doing a post-doc at the Salk Institute in San Diego!
Andres Crespo was our Super Technician from 2016 to 2021, making everything run smoothly, doing expert histology for our olfactory nerve regeneration project, and serving as El Presidente of the departmental Cheese Club!
Marc Ford joined the lab for an ERC-funded post-doc in 2019, and pioneered in vivo functional imaging in olfactory bulb interneurons, as well as unearthing new discoveries about myelination in those cells.
Menghon Cheah was a BBSRC-funded post-doc in the lab from 2017-2020, whose amazing skills optimised our surgical approaches and generated huge amounts of labelled brain tissue that we’re still analysing!
Christiane Hahn was funded by an MRC studentship to do her PhD on activity-dependent plasticity in olfactory bulb excitatory interneurons, and successfully obtained her thesis in 2019.
Darren Byrne came to us on the back of 3 (three!) Masters degrees, and with full MRC funding to undertake his doctorate. His work focused on function and plasticity in dopaminergic neurons of the olfactory bulb, and he successfully defended his thesis in autumn 2018.
Elisa Galliano was our lab’s first post-doc, who got herself a hugely prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to study different mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity in olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons. After 4-and-a-bit years of hugely productive work with us and with Venki Murthy’s lab at Harvard, she left in May 2018 to set up her own lab in Cambridge! She’s now a Visiting Lecturer here, though, so she’s still part of the Grubb Lab too…
Eleonora Franzoni spent 6 months with us as a Research Technician in 2017, helping to get our ERC-funded project on olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons up and running.
Adna Dumitrescu finished her PhD in the Grubb lab in 2016, after 3 years pioneering zebrafish AISology and live AIS imaging. She then did a mini post-doc with us to finish up the crucial stuff.
Annisa Chand was an inaugural member of the Grubb lab, helping us set the whole thing up as our Supertechnician from 2010 to 2015. Annisa not only made sure the lab ran smoothly, she also pioneered a load of cool techniques for us, and got us looking at plasticity in OB dopaminergic neurons for the first time.
Mark Evans was the Grubb lab’s first PhD student who finished his PhD in 2013. Following the completion of his PhD he stayed with us as a post-doc to finish up experiments for publications.
