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Marco Polin. PI marco

Office D-14, IMEDEA || Ph: +34 971 611 374 ||  email me

I graduated in Physics back in 1999 (!) at the University of Padova (Italy), with a specialisation on theoretical high energy particle physics. I then joined New York University for my Ph.D. (2001-2007), which was in David Grier‘s group at CSMR, working on colloidal interactions measured with holographic optical tweezers (experimental!). In 2007 I started working with Raymond Goldstein at DAMTP, Cambridge, on biophysics at the cellular level. I have been lucky enough to be sponsored first by a Marie-Curie Fellowship (2008-2010), then by an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010-2013). I joined the Physics Department in Warwick in September 2013, and became Associate Professor in 2018. In February 2016 I became an Associate Member of Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre.

cmcb-logo_kernedIn December 2016 I  joined the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology at Warwick as Group Leader.

In December 2020 I joined the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) in the beautiful island of Mallorca, as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. IMEDEA is a institute for advanced studies jointly run by the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). In October 2023, after a brief stint as PCD at UIB, I moved to a position of Investigador Científico (equivalent Assoc. Prof.) within CSIC.

My Researcher ID is H-4202-2011. You can also check my profile on Google Scholar.

Edited in Prisma app with Cartoon Francisca (Xisca) Font Verdera. PDRA. 

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 After a Master in Chemical Engineering, Xisca earned her Ph.D. in 2022 from the   Environmental Microbiology Group at IMEDEA, under the supervision of Ramon Rosselló Mora (IMEDEA). Her research focussed on the ecology and philogenetics of halophiles from the salt marshes of Mallorca. She joined the group in January 2023 and is currently funded by HFSP.  Her work focusses on the biophysics of outbreeding in wild yeast. 

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Sujeet Kumar Choudhary. PDRA 

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 Sujeet earned his Ph.D. at the IISc Bangalore (India) working on phototaxis of Chlamydomonas under the supervision of Prerna Sharma. He joined the group in June 2024 to work on different aspects of motility in microalgae.

Luc Zorrilla PHYMOT Ph.D. Student 

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 Luc graduated from KTH (Sweden) in June 2021 (Master in Physics). He joined in Aug 2021 with a Ph.D. position financed by the ITN PHYMOT.  During his Ph.D. Luc will work on the direct measurement and modelling of the mechanical properties of eukaryotic flagella.

2013_microscopySara Castillo Vila. Ph.D. Student

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Sara graduated in 2022 with a MSc in Biology from the University of Exeter (UK) under the supervision of Stefano Pagliara. From Sept 2022 she has been working as a research intern in InFiBio, financed by a fellowship from the Government of the Balearic Islands. Sara’s work with us has been focussing on photokinesis in Chlamydomonas. During her Ph.D. Sara will work on different aspects of motility in the cosmopolitan picoeukaryote Micromonas.

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Álvaro Raya Marin.  Lab Technician

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Álvaro joined as lab technician in July 2023, whilst working on his MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the Open University of Catalunya (UOC). Besides helping with the day-to-day running of the lab, he is involved in actively helping with research projects including yeast (HFSP) and micromonas.

Remote Co-Supervisions

  • Dario Buonomo, Ph.D. student at Università Roma Tre, Italy. Dario started his Ph.D. in 2023 under the supervision of Barbara Capone (principal supervisor). He is currently co-supervised by Francesco Imperi and Marco. Dario’s research focusses on bacterial motility.

Previously in the group

Post-graduates:

  • Olivier Mesdjian, PDRA (Oct 23 – Oct 24).
  • Steve Williams, Ph.D. student (graduated June 2022). On to: after a few months of bridge PDRA in the lab, Steve move to PDRA in the group of Shilpa Khatri, UC Merced (USA).
  • Antoine Allard, PDRA (2020-2022). On to: Maître de Conférence, U. Bordeaux (France).
  • Anusuya Pal, PDRA (2021-2022). On to: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Tokyo (Japan).
  • Lewis Mosby, Ph.D. student (graduated June 2021). On to: PDRA with Zena Hadjivasiliou at the Crick Institute.
  • Iago Lopez-Grobas, Ph.D. student (graduated June 2021). On to: PDRA with Dirk Aarts at the University of Oxford (Oxford Colloid Group)
  • Arman Javadi, PDRA (2019-2020).
  • Richard Henshaw, Ph.D. student (graduated June 2019). On to: PDRA with Jeff Guasto at Tufts Uni.
  • Matteo Contino, Ph.D. student (graduated 2017). On to: Engineer at Oxford HighQ.
  • George Parry, MSc-R student (2016) and Integrate AMR Fellow (Jan-Sept 2017).
  • Raphaël Jeanneret, joined PDRA with Vasily Kantsler (2014-2017). On to: ‘Margalida Comas’ Fellow at IMEDEA in the group of Idan Tuval. Currently CNRS Researcher at LPENS, ENS Paris.
  • Kate Watkins, MRC DTP student (3 months rotation, 2017). On to: PhD student with Meera Unnikrishnan.
  • Julia Dölger, Ph.D. student with Anders Andersen at DTU Denmark (April & May 2017).

Pre-graduates:

  • Jorge Pottiez (2023 Practicas Externas, UIB Physics Department): particle tracking for the automatic quantification of photokinetic dynamics in Chlamydomonas microalgae.
  • Cristina Martí (2023 Practicas Externas, UIB Physics Department): phototactic motility of Chlamydomonas in a inhomogeneous light field (preliminary results).
  • Ana Maya Sevilla (2023 Practicas Externas, UIB Physics Department): towards a quantification of yeast ascii digestion through quantitative image processing.
  • Katie Croft (2020 URSS Student with Orkun Soyer): numerical model of sliding cyanobacterial filament.
  • Paul Fuchter (2019 URSS Student): simulations of active-passive systems.
  • Thomas Rook (2019 URSS Student): binding dynamics of EB3.
  • Ross Shaw (2019 Intern): sinking of biofouled colloids.
  • Javiera Leemhuis (URSS Summer 2018).
  • Freya Bull and Sophie Mount, 4th year project, a.y. 2017-2018.
  • Jonathan Roberts, URSS Student; and Simone Coppola, Summer Student (Summer 2017).
  • Semih Svasal, BSc final year project (Oct 2016).
  • Rory Claydon and Jonathan Benarroch, URSS Students (Summer 2016).
  • George Day and Arun Jaspal, BSc final year project (Oct 2015).
  • Chris Norman and Matthew Painter, MSc final year project in collaboration with Munehiro Asally (Oct 2015).

  • Matthew Lloyd and Jake Haynes, URSS students (Summer 2015).

  • Richard Henshaw and Dean Walker, MSc final year project (Oct 2014).

  • Joanna Craufurd and Charlotte Macken, BSc final year project (Oct 2014).

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