Dr Tamsin Spelman
- Research Associate
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- Sainsbury Laboratory
- Sainsbury Laboratory, 47 Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1LR
About
I received my undergraduate and master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2013. I remained in the same department to complete my PhD supervised by Professor Eric Lauga entitled “Artificial micro-devices: armoured microbubbles and a magnetically driven cilium”, completed in 2017. After 2 months spent at the Université Grenoble Alpes (France) performing microfluidic experiments, I moved to the University of Glasgow (UK) for 15 months as a Research Assistant studying the effects of trauma on blood flow in the human eye working with Dr Peter Stewartt. I joined SLCU in January 2019 as a Research Associate in the group of Professor Henrik Jonsson, working on links between microtubules and the nucleus in plant root hair cells in collaboration with the labs of Dr Marie-Edith Chabouté and Dr Atef Asnacios with a secondary project that looked at microtubule alignment in different shaped protoplasts in collaboration with Dr Pauline Durand-Smet.
Research
Research interests
- Group - Henrik Jönsson
My interests are in microscale systems. Such systems cover a wide range of problems in fields ranging from biology to medicine to engineering. In nature, it encompasses phenomena from bacterial locomotion (e.g. E. coli) to blood flow to plant cell growth. I primarily use computational models and mathematical techniques for my research, but prefer to work closely with experimentalists and practical scientists, to maximise the impact of my research.