⭘ OUR TEAM
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⭘ TEAM
PHD STUDENT
Dr Alison Forrester
TECHNICIAN
Dr Alison Forrester
STAFF
Dr Alison Forrester
TECHNICIAN
Dr Alison Forrester
⭘ GROUP LEADER
Dr Alison Forrester
Alison Forrester is an F.R.S.-FNRS independent group leader (Chercheuse Qualifiée) at the University of Namur. She is a fellow of the Namur Research College (NARC) and WEL Research Institute. Her team, HoMER (Homeostasis and Modulation of ERES), is part of the research unit of cell biology (URBC) and the Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS).
Alison has a B.Sc (Hons) in Pharmacology (2007) and a PhD (2012) from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK. In 2013 Alison moved to Carmine Settembre’s lab at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) in Pozzuoli, Naples, where she pursued post-doctoral studies in the role of autophagy in protein trafficking and disease formation. In 2017 she continued her post-doctoral studies in Ludger Johannes’ lab at the Institute Curie in Paris, France, to study Retro-2, an inhibitor of intracellular trafficking, and advanced bioimaging to study protein trafficking using Lattice light-sheet microscopy. Alison’s expertise lie in the use of advanced microscopy to study protein trafficking and autophagy, including Lattice light-sheet microscopy, scanning and spinning disc confocal fixed and live cell microscopy, TIRF and electron microscopy. Her team works with interdisciplinary collaborators on a theme combining experience from across her career: studying protein trafficking and ER exit to understand the effects of secretory pathway modulation on cell homeostasis and disease.
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