Dr. Sara Sandin

Biography

Sara Sandin is a structural biologist with a long-standing interest in electron microscopy (EM). She studied chemistry from 1999 to 2001 at Stockholm University, where she had the opportunity to work in Professor Höglund’s group at Uppsala University on electron microscopy of HIV-1. Upon graduation, she obtained a fellowship from the Knowledge Foundation in Sweden to carry out her doctoral research with an industrial focus on pharma and biotech at the Karolinska Institute from 2001 to 2005, where her PhD supervisor was Professor Skoglund, and her work focused on cryo-EM and electron tomography. After earning an EMBO long-term fellowship, she conducted postdoctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK, from 2006 to 2012, working in Professor Rhodes’ group on single particle EM and human telomerase chromatin, while also receiving a visiting fellowship to work on cellular EM methods at the Salk Institute in collaboration with Professors Karlseder and Ellisman. In 2012, she became an Assistant Professor at the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at NTU in Singapore and served as the Deputy Director of the Facility for Analysis, Characterisation, Testing & Simulation (FACTS) from 2017 to 2020. In 2023, she joined the chemistry department at Umeå University as part of Professor Linda Sandblad’s team at the Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM), which is a part of SciLifeLab, a national resource for bioimaging and structural biology in Sweden.

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