Richards Group
Current members
Dr David Richards
- MRC Career Development Fellow
- Turing Fellow
- Undergraduate and Masters: Physics and MMath (University of Cambridge)
- PhD: String theory (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
- Previous institutes: JIC and Imperial College
Sophie Nye
- MRC-funded GW4 BioMed2 PhD student
- Project: "The filamentous growth of fungal killers: a combined mathematics and lab approach"
- Started September 2022
Alaina Cockerell
- LSI-funded PhD student
- Project: "Simulation of human blastocyst development"
- Started September 2021
Peyman Shadmani
- Exeter University-funded PhD student
- Project: "Models of cell shape during phagocytosis"
- Started September 2020
Millicent Opoku
- QLA-funded PhD student
- Project: "How the human embryo develops: combining mathematical modelling and data science"
- Started September 2023
Dr Jim Lees
- MRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Project: "The Fundamentals of Phagocytosis: Integrating Theoretical Models and Experiments"
- Started March 2022
Victoria Armer
- BBSRC-funded PhD student
- Co-supervised with Mike Deeks
- Started September 2020
- Project: "Exploring communication mechanisms between fungal pathogens and plant cells"
Amber Connerton
- BBSRC-funded PhD student
- Co-supervised with Mike Deeks
- Started September 2020
- Project: "The role of Rho GTPases in plant immunity"
Previous members
Dr Jordan Hembrow
- BBSRC-funded PhD student
- Project: "Mathematical modelling of phytopathogen-targeted secretion pathways"
- Co-supervised with Mike Deeks
- Started September 2018
Ifeoma Nwabufo
- African Master's in Machine Intelligence (AMMI)
- Based at AIMS Senegal
- Started September 2022
- Project: "A machine learning approach to identifying and quantifying microglia activation through cell shape"
Liam Wright
- Master's student (Mathematics)
- Project: "Cellular Potts model of early embryogenesis"
- Started September 2021
- Jointly supervised Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
Velizar Kirkow
- Master's student (Mathematics)
- Project: "Calcium spiking in Candida albicans"
- Started September 2021
- Jointly supervised with Alex Brand and Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
Dr Ram Attili
- MRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Project: "The Fundamentals of Phagocytosis: Integrating Theoretical Models and Experiments"
- Started March 2019
Dr Josiah Passmore
- PhD student
- Project: "The dynamics of peroxisomes"
- Part of the Schrader lab
- Papers: Castro IG et al.: A role for MIRO1 in motility and membrane dynamics of peroxisomes. Traffic 19:229-42 (PubMed)
Dr Freddy Wordingham
- CBMA PhD student
- Project: "Optimising dermatological photodynamic therapy effectiveness using a novel radiative transfer model"
- Co-supervised with Tim Harries, Alison Curnow and Clare Thorn
Dr Trish Thomas
- MRC Skills Development Fellow
- Areas: diabetes, obesity and fatty acid transport, mathematical modelling and simulation
- Project: "The role of chain length in fatty acid uptake in both health and disease: a combined experimental-modelling approach"
Blake Cook
- 3-month visitor from University of Melbourne, Australia
- Project: "The effect of electric fields on wound closure studied through electrotaxis in Dictyostelium discoideum"
Julia James
- Summer student
- Project: "Dual-micropipette aspiration experiments of phagocytosis"
- Co-supervised with Peter Petrov
Dr Rudy Arthur
- CBMA PhD student
- Project: "The emergence of biological phenotypes from dynamic gene networks"
- Co-supervised with John Terry, Ken Haynes and Jamie Walker
Other
Collaborators
- Prof Austin Smith, Director, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/livingsystems/team/profile/index.php?web_id=Austin_Smith
- Dr Ge Guo, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/livingsystems/team/profile/index.php?web_id=Ge_Guo
- Dr Alexandra Brand, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter: https://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/profile/index.php?web_id=Alexandra_Brand
- Dr Clare Buckley, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/clare-buckley
- Dr Peter Petrov, Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/staff/pgpetrov
- Professor Holger Kress, Biological Physics Group, Universität Bayreuth: http://www.biophys.uni-bayreuth.de/en
- Dr Richard Wingate, Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/richard.wingate.html
- Professor Michael Schrader, Biosciences, University of Exeter: http://schraderlab.weebly.com
- Dr Kate Madden, Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/people/profile/katemadden.html
- Dr Mike Deeks, Biosciences, University of Exeter: http://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Michael_Deeks