Helen Saibil#
| Membership Number: | 4127 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://people.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~ubcg16z |
Present and Previous Positions
- Bernal Professor of Structural Biology, Department of Crystallography
- 10% secondment at Diamond Light Source, National centre for cryo electron microscopy
- 2007 - 2008 Sabbatical fellowships (Wellcome and Leverhulme) held at EMBL Heidelberg
- 1996 and 1997 Wellcome Trust Research Leave Fellowship
- 1984 - 1989 Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
- 1984 - 1988 Demonstrator in Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
- 1982 - 1984 Research Associate, Medical Research Council Project Grant, awarded to H.R.S., Biophysics Department, King's College London
- 1979 - 1981 Research Assistant, Medical Research Council Project Grant, awarded to H.R.S. and Professor M.H.F. Wilkins, Biophysics Department, King's College London
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Grenoble, 1978. Head of Laboratory: Dr M. Chabre
- 1977 - 1978 Canadian National Research Council NATO fellowship, held at Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Grenoble
- Province of Quebec Postgraduate Scholarship, 1972-1976 (held at Kings College London)
Fields of Scholarship
- Cryo-electron microscopy
- Structure determination
- Molecular chaperones
- Cellular aggregation
- Amyloid
- Membrane pore formation
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Elected Member of EMBO
- 2006 Chair of 1st European Gordon Conference on Three-dimensional electron microscopy
- 2006 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- Chair of European Chaperone meeting (ESF, EMBO) in 1999 and 2013
- 2014 Honorary Fellow, Royal Microscopical Society
- 2014 Honorary Fellow, British Biophysical Society
