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Recent Advances in Detecting Lipid Transport
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Georgia Isom

Georgia Isom

University of Oxford

<p class="ql-align-justify">Georgia is an MRC career development fellow and a recent recipient of an ERC starting grant at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. She has dedicated the past 12 years of her research career to understanding the mechanism of phospholipid transport in bacteria using a combination of bacterial cell biology, genetics, biochemistry, and structural biology. The Isom lab is particularly interested in understanding how phospholipids in Gram-negative bacteria build the bacterial cell envelope.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Georgia received her PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2017, followed by a postdoc at NYU Langone School of Medicine until 2021. In 2022, she started her own research group at the University of Oxford.</p>

Collection Overview

Lipids are the major constituents of membranes throughout life. Transport of lipids is essential for cell growth and adaptation. Such transport needs to occur not only across a membrane but also between membranes. Detecting such transport in vivo and in vitro has been challenging due to a lack of methodology. This collection will highlight recent methods for the detection of lipid transport in eukaryotic and bacterial cells.