Lori A Passmore

Research Experience

From 2009    Group Leader MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK

                      Macromolecular Machines Involved in Regulating mRNA 3ʹ Ends

2004-2009    Career Development Fellow MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

                      Supervisors: Drs. Venki Ramakrishnan and Richard Henderson                           

                    Structural Studies of Complexes Involved in Initiation of Eukaryotic Translation

1999- 2004    Post-Doctoral Scientist and PhD Thesis The Institute of Cancer Research,

                       London, UK

                     Supervisor:  Prof. David Barford

                     Structural and Functional Studies of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/

                     Cyclosome (APC)

1998-1999     Undergraduate Honours Thesis Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,

                      UBC, Canada

                      Supervisor:  Dr. Natalie Strynadka

                      Structure Determination of PSE-4 - A Bacterial β-Lactamase

1998              Research Assistant Institut für Humangenetik, Universität Würzburg, Germany

                      Supervisor:  Prof. Bernhard Weber, January - August 1998

                    Investigations into Disease-Causing Mutations in the German Albino Population

1996-1997     Research Student Terry Fox Laboratories, BC Cancer Research Centre,

                      Vancouver, Canada

                    Supervisor: Dr. Rob Kay

                    Expression Cloning and Characterisation of Transforming Genes

Education

PhD, The Institute of Cancer Research (University of London), October 1999 – November 2003

Bachelor of Science, Honours Biochemistry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada (Jan 1997 – May 1999) and University of Waterloo, Canada (Sept 1994 – May 1997)