Royal Microscopical Society

Members

The membership of the RMS includes scientists and technicians working in both life and materials science. Many of our members are at the forefront of their fields and here we will profile some of them.

Theresa Ward BSc DPhil

Theresa teaches on the MSc Immunology of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is an active RMS member.
She obtained her first degree in Biochemistry and Genetics from Nottingham University and her DPhil from the University of Sussex in 1996 where she studied membrane trafficking in fission yeast under Dr John Armstrong. She then worked in the laboratory of Dr Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz at the National Institute of Health in the USA.
She was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2002.
Her particular interest is in integrating confocal microsocopy technology and advanced cell and biological techniques to investigate the processes involved in B cell activation and proliferation.

David Stephens Phd

My lab is interested in the organization and function of the secretory pathway in mammalian cells. We use a range of light microscopy techniques including wide-field and confocal microscopy, fluorescence photobleaching, deconvolution and 3D reconstruction. We aim to incorporate these techniques with electron microscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology to address questions relating to the way in which transport vesicles form, how cargo is incorporated in to them, and how transport carriers move along the microtubule cytoskeleton. As well as being a member of the RMS Cell Biology Section committee, I am also a committee member for the British Society for Cell Biology.