Florence Young, PhD student

 

I graduated with a 4-year undergraduate Masters degree in Biochemistry (MBiochem) from the University of Oxford. During my undergraduate course, I secured a Wellcome Trust Summer Studentship with Jürg Bähler’s lab in UCL to investigate the role of lncRNAs in ageing in S. pombe. For my Part II research project I joined Ilan Davis’ lab in the Department of Biochemistry, Oxford. There, I used single molecule fluorescence in situ hybridisation and high-resolution microscopy to study cytoplasmic mRNA localisation in the Drosophila melanogaster larval brain. After graduating I remained in the Davis lab to investigate the regulation and function of mRNAs with long 3’UTR extensions in Drosophila neural stem cells. I started my PhD in Simon’s lab in October 2017. I am interested in the formation, maturation and motility of ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs) and will be using a combination of in vitro assays and in vivo imaging in Drosophila to investigate this topic.

Email: fyoung ‘at’ mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk