People

Leadership Team

The network is managed by a multidisciplinary leadership team who are all working in key research fields relevant to cilia research.

University College London

Dagan Jenkins

Dr Dagan Jenkins

Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
University College London
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IFT, Carpenter syndrome, Jeune syndrome, skeletal ciliopathies, cilia trafficking

Hannah Mitchison

Dr Hannah Mitchison

Reader in Molecular and Medical Genetics

Institute of Child Health
University College London
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University of Edinburgh

Pleasantine Mill

Prof Pleasantine Mill

Professor of Cilia Biology

MRC Human Genetics Unit
University of Edinburgh
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University of Exeter

Kirsty Wan

Dr Kirsty Wan

Living Systems Institute
University of Exeter
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motile cilia, microscale fluid mechanics, protists

University of Leeds

Colin Johnson

Prof Colin Johnson

Professor of Medical & Molecular Genetics

Section of Ophthalmology and Neurosciences, Leeds Institute of
University of Leeds
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University of Oxford

Girish Ram Mali

Dr Girish Ram Mali

Group Leader MRC Fellow

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
University of Oxford
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Motile cilia and ciliopathies, Dynein motors, macromolecular assembly, Protein folding and quality control, Molecular, structural and cellular biology

Queen Mary University of London

Martin Knight

Prof Martin Knight

Professor of Mechanobiology

School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
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primary cilia, inflammatory signalling, mechanosignalling, structure-function, organ-on-a-chip