Dr. Camilla Godlee

Biography

Camilla Godlee's research combines expertise in cellular membrane dynamics and host-pathogen interactions. Her studies focus on how bacterial pathogens interact with and manipulate eukaryotic membranes to enable their own growth and pathogenicity. After completing undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, she earned her PhD at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, in the lab of Marko Kaksonen, where her research focused on endocytic proteins recruited to the plasma membrane to initiate endocytosis. She employed yeast genetics and live cell fluorescence microscopy techniques to demonstrate the remarkable flexibility of the initiation step in endocytosis. Camilla's research interests shifted to host-pathogen interactions, specifically how intracellular bacteria interact with and hijack the membranes of host cells to aid in their pathogenicity. As a postdoctoral researcher in David Holden's lab at Imperial College London, she determined that a Salmonella virulence protein hijacks host cell trafficking pathways to disrupt the adaptive immune response. She has since established her own research group in the joint Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry at Cambridge, focusing on how bacterial pathogens are adapted to interact with host cell membrane compartments.

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