The Landsberg Lab
Structural Biology of Macromolcelular Machines and Disease
Our team
[Alumni]
Joseph Box
PhD student
Commencing Semester 1, 2017
Irene Chassagnon
Postdoc
Commencing July 2017
Clancy Lott
Honours student
Clancy completed an undergraduate project in Biochemistry in the lab in semester 2 of 2016. He has returned to undertake an Honours project on multifunctional enzymes.
Sarah Piper
PhD student
Sarah's PhD work is focused on using cryo-EM and association molecular techniques to investigate the structure of novel targets for bioinsectide development. She is funded by a UQ International Scholarship.
Lou Brillault
PhD student
Lou recently commenced a PhD project studying the composition and structure of protein complexes that regulate membrane deformation as a precursor to vesicle budding. He is funded by a UQ International Scholarship.
Matthew Jackman
Undergraduate trainee
Commencing Semester 2, 2017
Michael Landsberg
Senior Lecturer (Group Leader)
Michael's research is driven by a fundamental interest in protein recognition. We use information obtained from high resolution protein structures to understand how large, macromolecular machines are formed and in turn contribute to (or prevent) infection and disease.
Associates
Jannah Jeon
PhD student
Jannah is a joint PhD student with Prof. Bostjan Kobe who is using single particle EM and X-ray crystallography to study the structure of a large, mammalian, multifunctional enzyme complex involved in DNA biosynthesis.
Ana Silva
Visiting Postdoc
Ana is a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Joel Mackay who regularly visits the lab as part of an ongoing, NHMRC-funded collaborative project focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of DNA packaging.
Andrew Hedger
PhD student
Andrew is a joint PhD student with Prof. Bostjan Kobe who is using cryo-EM to study the structure of proteins that regulate higher order assembly formation in mammalian immune signalling pathways.
Alan Munn
Visiting Academic
Alan is a group leader at Griffith University. He is undertaking a sabbatical in our lab in the second half of 2017 to continue a long-standing collaboration aimed at developing and studying models of human virus infection in yeast.
Alumni
Zihan Zhou (Undergraduate trainee 2016-2017): Zihan completed two undergraduate projects in the lab during Semester 2, 2016 and the following Summer. She is currently completign her undergraduate degree.
Emma Whittle (Undergraduate trainee 2016): Emma completed an undergrdaute project in Biophysics in the lab in semester 2 of 2016. She moved on to pursue postgraduate qualifications in medical imaging.
Callum Cairns (Honours student and Research Assistant 2014-2016): Callum graduated with first class Honours in mid-2016. He continued in the lab as an RA for the second half of 2016.
Gamma Chi (Graduate student 2012-2016): Gamma was an APA-funded PhD student who worked on mechanosensitive ion channels. He submitted his thesis in 2016 and took up a position at the University of Oxford.
Rubbiya Ali (Graduate student 2010-2016): Rubbiya was a joint PhD student between our lab and the Hankamer lab. She graduated in 2016 and continued to work in the Hankamer group.
Rosalba Rothnagel (Senior Research Assistant): Rosalba was a founding member of the Hankamer lab at IMB, where she has provided expertise in cryo-EM for more than 10 years. From 2013-2015, she had a partial appointment within our group and supported a number of the lab's projects. Since 2016 she has been back with the Hankamer lab full-time.
Nicole Chan (Undergraduate trainee 2015): Nicole was an IMB UROP scholar in semester 2 of 2015. Following her time in the lab she went on University exchange in Hong Kong.
Bowie Chong (Undergraduate trainee 2014): Bowie was an IMB UROP scholar in semester 1 of 2014. He is now completing his undergraduate studies and will soon embark on an Honours project at the AIBN.
Anne Sawyer (Graduate student 2009; Honorary member 2010-2014): Anne was a BSc Honours student in the lab in 2009 and then continued to work on a collaborative project while undertaking her PhD with Prof. Ben Hankamer. She took up a postdoctoral position at Ruhr University Bochum in 2014.
Sarah Webb (Honorary member 2013-2014): Sarah was a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Joel Mackay. She submitted her thesis in 2014 and is now postdoc'ing at the Francis Crick Institute in the UK.
Nur Intan Ruhaiyem (Graduate student 2009-14): Intan was a student in Dr Brad Marsh's lab. She was awarded her PhD in 2014 and is now a lecturer at University of Science Malaysia.
Jiang He (Undergraduate trainee 2014): Jiang was a UQ Summer Research Scholar in the lab during 2014. He returned to Shenzen University to complete his undergraduate studies.
Jade Charles (Undergraduate trainee 2013-2014): Jade was a UQ Summer Research Scholar in the lab during the summer semester of 2013/14. She returned to RMIT to complete her undergraduate studies.
Drew Ringsmuth (Graduate student 2007-2013): Drew was awarded his PhD in November 2013 (primary advisor Prof. Ben Hankamer) and moved on to a postdoc position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Peter van der Heide (9/3/1981 - 4/1/2016)
Pete commenced his academic life at UQ as a PhD student working in the laboratory of Dr Brad Marsh. He developed computational tools that assisted with the visualisation of large and information-rich 3D image datasets such as those generated by electron tomography analysis of whole cells and subcellar organelles. Peter returned to UQ to complete his PhD studies as a member of our group but tragically passed away in early 2016. In late 2015, Pete started work on a book chapter with his good friends David Mastronarde and Eileen O'Toole at Boulder University Colorado. This is due to be published, dedicated to Pete's memory, in 2017.
