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Mrs Rikke Morrish

PhD student

 rm511@exeter.ac.uk

Overview

Profile

Rikke got her BSc degree in Biology from the University of Copenhagen in 2014. During her degree she worked with protein chemistry and NMR spectroscopy in SBiN lab under  Dr. Birthe Brandt Kragelund . Recently she has finished a Master of Science by Research at University of Exeter, where she studied the role of the DNA damage signalling cascade in antibody diversification in the lab of  Dr. Richard Chahwan  (Biocatalysis Centre).

Currently she is enrolled in a PhD with primary supervisor  Dr. Francesca Palombo  as a member of Prof. Nick Stone's Biomedical Spectrocopy Labs within the Biophysics Group, University of Exeter. The research is conducted in collaboration with secondary supervisors  Dr. Richard Chahwan  and  Dr. Stefano Pagliara  (Biosciences, CLES). Her research is focused on FTIR imaging of live immune cells in microfluidic devices; studying chromatin changes during DNA damage and antibody diversification.

 

Education

  • 2016 - Pres.     PhD, Biomedical Physics - University of Exeter
  • 2015 - 2016     MSc by Research, Biological Sciences - University of Exeter
  • 2011 - 2014     BSc, Biology - University of Copenhagen

Publications

  • Brandstrup Morrish R, Hermes M, Metz J, Stone N, Pagliara S, Chahwan R, Palombo F. (2019) Single Cell Imaging of Nuclear Architecture Changes. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. Jul 24:7(141)
  • Sheppard E,  Brandstrup Morrish R, Dillon MJ, Leyland R, Chahwan R. (2018) Epigenomic Modifications Mediating Antibody Maturation. Frontiers in Immunology. Feb 26:9(355)
  • Hermes M,  Brandstrup Morrish R, Huot L, Meng L, Junaid S, Tomko J, Lloyd GR, Masselink WT, Tidemand-Lichtenberg P, Pedersen C, Palombo F, Stone N. (2018) Mid-IR hyperspectral imaging for label-free histopathology and cytology. Journal of Optics. Jan 24:20(2)
  • Paraskevopoulos K, Kriegenburg F, Tatham MH, Rösner HI, Medina B, Larsen IB,  Brandstrup R, Hardwick KG, Hay RT, Kragelund BB, Hartmann-Petersen R, Gordon C. (2014) Dss1 is a26S proteasome ubiquitin receptor. Molecular Cell. Nov 6:56(3)

Conferences and Workshops

  • "Assessing chromatin changes in single cells" Rikke B. Morrish, Michael Hermes, Jeremy Metz, Nick Stone, Stefano Pagliara, Richard Chahwan, Francesca Palombo (Conference Talk). BioBrillouin Meeting (Perugia, Italy 12/09-14/09/2018)
  • "Towards single cell measurements of chromatin states using FTIR imaging" Rikke B. Morrish, Michael Hermes, Jeremy Metz, Nick Stone, Stefano Pagliara, Richard Chahwan, Francesca Palombo (Poster + 1 minute Flash presentation). SPEC Conference (Glasgow, Scotland 10/06-15/06/2018)
  • "Single cell measurements of chromatin states using label-free techniques"  Rikke B. Morrish, Michael Hermes, Jeremy Metz, Nick Stone, Stefano Pagliara, Francesca Palombo, Richard Chahwan (Poster). EMBO Conference: Chromatin and Epigenetics (Heidelberg, Germany 03/05-06/05/2017)
  • Workshop attendance. CLIRSPEC Summer School (Windermere, UK 12/07-15/07/2016)
  • "Dissecting the roles of the enzymatic and scaffolding functions of EXO1 in vivo" Shanzhi Wang, Kyeryoung Lee, Richard Chahwan, Yongwei Zhang, Catherine Tang, Sergio Roa,  Rikke B. Morrish, Elisa Pesenti, Paula E. Cohen, Thomas MacCarthy, Winfried Edelmann, Matthew D. Scharff (Poster).  Exe-BioCon 2016 (University of Exeter, UK 14/06/2016)
  • "Dissecting the roles of the enzymatic and scaffolding functions of EXO1 in vivo" Shanzhi Wang, Kyeryoung Lee, Richard Chahwan, Yongwei Zhang, Catherine Tang, Sergio Roa,  Rikke B. Morrish, Elisa Pesenti, Paula E. Cohen, Thomas MacCarthy, Winfried Edelmann, Matthew D. Scharff (Poster).  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting: Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System (CSHL, NY, USA 26/04-30/04/2016)
  • "Analysing the role of a chromatin reader in the DNA damage response and in antibody diversification"  Rikke B. Morrish, Leo Bennett, Richard Chahwan (Poster). Exe-BioCon 2015 (University of Exeter, UK 16/06/2015) 

Funding

  • £150 - "Association of British Spectroscopists Trust Bursary" - for attendance at the EMBO conference Chromatin and Epigenetics (May 2017)
  • £1200 - "CEMPS PGR Funding to attend training event" - for attendance at the CSHL meeting Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System, a visit with collaborators at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Apr-May 2016) and attendance at the CLIRSPEC Summer School (Jul 2016)
  • £750 - "Genetics Society Junior Scientist Non-GS Meeting grant" - for attendance at the CSHL meeting Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System (Apr 2016)

Teaching accreditation

  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

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