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Mark Wallace Mark studied Chemical Physics as an undergraduate at the University of Bristol, followed by a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor David Klenerman. He was awarded the 2002 Gregorio Weber International Prize in Biological Fluorescence for this work. Mark then spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, working with Professor Richard Zare. He returned to the U.K. in 2002 to undertake a second postdoctoral position at the National Institute for Medical Research with Dr Justin Molloy, before moving to Oxford in 2005 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He was subsequently appointed as a University lecturer and fellow of Wadham college in 2006. He joined King’s in 2016 as part of its expansion of Chemistry.

In 2009 Mark was appointed to the steering committee of the British Biophysical Society. Patents arising from his work have also been licensed in the U.K. Mark has also been active in raising awareness of his group’s research beyond the lab, including video podcasting and participation in the 2014 “I’m a scientist get me out of here” competition. He was awarded the RSC Norman Heatley Award in 2015 in recognition of his work. He was made a Fellow of the RSC in the same year.

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Henry Chippindale Henry joins the group following a BSc in Biology at the University of Nottingham and a Systems and Synthetic Biology MRes from Imperial.

Henry is working on building de novo artifical synapses linking real cells and artificial cells.

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Pan Dimitriou Pantelitsa joined the Wallace Group in March 2023 as a PDRA, after completing her PhD in Engineering. Her research interests lie in 3D printing, microfluidics and cell membrane mimics. During her time in the Wallace group, she will explore the combination of droplet-microfluidics, multiple emulsions and hydrogels in the formation of artificial bacterial envelopes.

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Yize Wu joining us as a MRes student in Interdisciplinary Chemistry, Yize joins us to work on biohybrid nanopores.

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Lucian Heeler Lucian joins the group as part of the KCL BiPAS CDT programme. In collaboration with Jeremy Carlton we will use new single-molecule tools and artificial membrane mimics to understand the mechanism of membrane fission by the Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT).

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Guanzong Zhai Supported by the King’s-China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship programme (K-CSC), Guanzhong Zhai joins the Wallace group working on on new methods for artificial cell fabrication.

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Zhongdao Li After a KURF summer studentship failed to dissuade Zhongdao from working in the lab he joins us for a PhD working on new methods to link artificial cells and real cells.

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Kharina Fenton Kharina joins the lab from Cardiff University after a placement in Australia studying 3D printable living electrodes. Her project will work to engineer a new class of artificial ion channels.

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Yujie Guo Yujie joined the lab in 2019 as a PhD student as part of the King’s-China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship programme. Her project uses iSCAT microscopy to understand polymerisation. After a successful PhD defense, she now is a postdoc in the lab.

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