Louise Serpell#
| Membership Number: | 5745 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/serpelllab |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9335-7751 |
| Twitter: | @Serpell1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019/05 Director of Sussex Neuroscience, University of Sussex, UK
- 2010/11 Professor of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK
- 2006 Reader in Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK
- 2003 Wellcome Trust fellow, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK
- 2000 Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. University of Cambridge, UK
- 1997 Independent Research Associate, LMB, MRC Centre, Cambridge, UK
- 1996 Postdoctoral research assistant, Centre for Research into Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Canada
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein self-assembly
- Protein misfolding
- Structural biology
- Alzheimer's disease
- Cellular neuroscience
- Fibrous protein structure
- Neurodegenerative disease
- Amyloidoses
- Molecular Biophysics
- Electron microscopy imaging
Honours and Awards
- Sussex Impact award 2016 "Commerical and Economic" http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/research/rqi/rqi_information_and_support/rqi_events/susseximpactday/awards16
- 2013 Winner of the "pioneer" category, RED womens awards
- 2000 Royal Society University fellowship
- Highlighted highly cited review: LC Serpell. (2000) Alzheimer’s amyloid fibrils: structure and assembly. Invited review. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1502 16-30. Cited 1051
- M Sunde, LC Serpell, M Bartlam, PE Fraser, MB Pepys, CCF Blake (1997) Common core structure of amyloid fibrils by synchrotron X-ray diffraction. J Mol Biol. 273 729-739. (Cited 1816 times)
