Lucy Collinson
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Lucy Collinson is a microbiologist and electron microscopist at the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research centre in London.[1][2] She was previously the head of electron microscopy at the London Research Institute.
Life and career
[edit]In 1998, Collinson received a PhD in molecular microbiology from the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry of the Queen Mary University of London, supervised by Mike Curtis.[1][2] She became interested in electron microscopy towards the end of her PhD, after the excitement of seeing the bacteria after years of studying bacterial protein bands on gels.[2] That same year, she became a postdoctoral research assistant at Imperial College London and University College London, working with Colin Hopkins.[1]
In 2004, Collinson became the head of electron microscopy at a molecular cell biology laboratory at University College London.[1] In 2006, Collinson became the head of electron microscopy at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute.[1][2] In 2013, she collaborated with a team of researchers at the University of York on a large collaborative grant to the UK Medical Research Council to purchase a new type of combined electron and light microscope.[2] In 2015, when the London Research Unit became part of the Francis Crick Institute, she became the head of electron microscopy there.[1][3][4] In her role as head of that effort she is involved in many collaborative projects,[5] publishing on a range of topics.[6]
In 2019, Collinson co-edited Correlative Imaging: Focusing on the Future with Paul Verkade, which was published by Wiley.[7] She guest edited a volume of Journal of Cell Science with Guillaume Jacquemet.[5]
In 2024 she received the Distinguished Scientist Award in biological sciences from the Microscopy Society of America.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Lucy Collinson". The Francis Crick Institute.
- ^ a b c d e Sanderson, K. (2013). "Turning point: Lucy Collinson". Nature. 497 (149). doi:10.1038/nj7447-149a.
- ^ "Imaging Scientist - Lucy Collinson". www.imagingscientist.com. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ "Lucy Collinson | VIB Conferences". www.vibconferences.be. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Interview with FocalPlane Scientific Advisory Board member Lucy Collinson". Journal of Cell Science. 136 (20): jcs261656. 20 October 2023. doi:10.1242/jcs.261656. ISSN 0021-9533.
- ^ "Lucy M Collinson and Lucy Collinson". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ Verkade, Paul; Collinson, Lucy, eds. (4 November 2019). Correlative Imaging: Focusing on the Future. Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781119086420. ISBN 978-1119086451.
- ^ "MSA | Major Society Awards Recipients". microscopy.org. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
