Lab members

Current lab members

Marcus Bischoff (PI)

I graduated with a Diploma in Biology from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany). I carried on in Braunschweig to obtain my PhD with Prof Ralf Schnabel working on cell polarity and cell migration in the C. elegans embryo. Then I moved to Cambridge (UK), where I did a postdoc with Dr Peter Lawrence, first at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and then at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Zoology. In the Lawrence lab, I started to work on abdominal morphogenesis of Drosophila. I joined the School of Biology in St Andrews as a lecturer in 2013.

Aimee Bebbington (PhD student)

Jianyi Mai (PhD Student)

I majored in Biopharmaceutics, which connects Biology to Pharmaceutics, when I was an undergraduate student in Wuhan University. In my final year project, I studied cell polarity proteins of epithelial cells. After graduation, I joined a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products for my Master’s degree, which was supervised by Prof. Shuo Shen. I studied Hand, Foot and Mouth disease (HFMD) and focused on Coxsackievirus, especially the cell tropism of Coxsackievirus A6. I am now a PhD student in the Bischoff group, sponsored by the China Scholarship Council. Here, I investigate the migration of larval epithelial cells during Drosophila abdominal morphogenesis.

Jane Lyon (MSc Student)

Previous lab members

Pau Pulido Companys (PhD student)

Anneliese Norris (Research Fellow)

Stefania Pasare (Research Fellow)

Sotiroula Chatzimatthaiou (PhD Student)

Cameron Harrison (MSc Student)