{"id":838,"date":"2017-02-08T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/?page_id=838"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:18:33","slug":"helen-taylor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/?page_id=838","title":{"rendered":"Helen Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen T<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-894 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Profile-Pic-Micklefield-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Profile Pic Micklefield\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>aylor (1<sup>st<\/sup> BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Liverpool, BBSRC GSK funded PhD) \u201cNew Synthetic Biology Tools for Controlling Gene Expression\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Taylor <\/strong>was awarded her first class honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool in 2016. She spent her final year project studying the protein composition of snake venom from <em>Daboia siamensis <\/em>and <em>Echis ocellatus<\/em>, particularly the phospholipase A<sub>2<\/sub> component and its toxic role in envenomation. During her final year project she not only gained an appreciation of pathology-producing interactions between molecules and cells, but also gained expertise in gel-filtration, reverse phase and affinity chromatography, SDS-PAGE and mass spectrometry. During her project she worked alongside Dr Mark Wilkinson, a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool with a keen interest in micro-scale protein isolation and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her final year project, during her second year she applied for and completed a 10-week summer research project funded by BBSRC, supervised by Dr Daniel Rigden. This involved the use of cutting-edge contact-based modelling methods to provide structure-based function annotation of domains of unknown function. During the 10 weeks she displayed a clear ability to pick up new techniques when placed in a specialised research environment, in this case she adapted to a completely different computer operating system and bioinformatics programs that she had previously not been exposed to. Through this experience, and a week spent with PhD students in a vascular signalling research group, she received considerable insight into what being part of a research team involves \u2013 confirming her desire to pursue a PhD and making her even more motivated to commit to a research career. Through her 10 week bioinformatics project, she was able to contribute to a paper published later in 2016 in <em>Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Helen has experience in molecular biology, protein expression and purification, enzyme kinetics, Bioinformatics and analytical techniques (including SDS-PAGE, HPLC and mass spectrometry).<\/p>\n<p>Outside of her PhD, Helen is a keen reader, painter and enjoys various sports including rock climbing, bouldering, squash, badminton and cardio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Taylor (1st BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Liverpool, BBSRC GSK funded PhD) \u201cNew Synthetic Biology Tools for Controlling Gene Expression\u201d &nbsp; Helen Taylor was awarded her first class honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool in 2016. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/?page_id=838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micklefieldlab.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}