Leadership team

Leadership team

  • Professor Darius Armstrong-James

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    Professor Darius Armstrong-James Fungal Science Network Lead Reader in Infectious Diseases and Medical Mycology

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    Professor Darius Armstrong-James is a Reader in Infectious Diseases and Medical Mycology in the Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London and honorary consultant physician in infectious diseases and medical mycology to the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and Imperial College Healthcare.

  • Dr Anand Shah

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    Dr Anand Shah Advocacy

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    Dr Anand Shah is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Horonary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.

  • Dr rodrigo Ledesma Amaro

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    Dr rodrigo Ledesma Amaro Lecturer in Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering
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    Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro is leading a research group at the interface of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. His research lab is based in the Department of Bioengineering and the Center for Synthetic Biology and Innovation. He collaborates closely with Tom Ellis group.

  • Dr Claire Stanley

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    Dr Claire Stanley Lecturer in Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering.
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    Dr Claire Stanley is a Lecturer (US equivalent: Assistant Professor) in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. Claire's research focuses on developing microfluidic or "Organ-on-a-Chip" technologies to probe the interplay between soil-dwelling organisms at the single cell level.

  • Professor Martin Bidartondo

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    Professor Martin Bidartondo Professor of Molecular Ecology
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    Martin works on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizas, one of the dominant symbioses of terrestrial ecosystems. The systems that he has studied include arbuscular, ectomycorrhizal, monotropoid and orchid mycorrhizas, and the mycorrhiza-like associations of bryophytes. He is an Honorary Research Associate at he Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

  • Dr Michalis Barkoulas

    Dr Michalis Barkoulas, Senior Lecturer Department of Life Sciences

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    Dr Michalis Barkoulas Senior Lecturer

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    Dr Michalis Barkoulas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Life Sciences. His research focuses on solving fundamental problems in biology. There are two main areas of research developmental biology and innate immunity.

  • Professor Ioly Kotta-Loizou

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    Professor Ioly Kotta-Loizou Communications

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    • Department of Life Sciences
    • Faculty of Natural Sciences

  • Dr Eleonora Moratto

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    Dr Eleonora Moratto Post-doctoral Representative

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    Eleonora is a post-doctoral research associate in the Claire Stanley lab. Her research focuses on using microfluidics to study multi-species interaction networks of soil dwelling organisms including fungi, bacteria, oomycetes and plant roots.

  • Anna Lee

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    Anna Lee Administrator for the Fungal Science Network

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    Anna is Team Administrator for the Section of Molecular Microbiology (Department of Infectious Disease).