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Staff Profile

Dr Shiney Mathew

Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences

  • Address: School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
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    Framlington Place
    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
    NE2 4HH
Background

Qualifications 

BSc (hons) in Biotechnology, Kerala University, India (2009)

MSc in Food Biotechnology, Strathclyde University (2010)

MRes in Medical Sciences, Â鶹´«Ã½ (2013)

PhD in non-canonical translational mechanism of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Â鶹´«Ã½ (2017)


Previous Academic Positions 

2018-2019: Postdoctoral research with Prof. Jean Beggs (University of Edinburgh), studying interplay of intron and promoter on the efficient co-transcriptional splicing of Ribosomal Proteins (RP) transcripts.

2020-2023: Postdoctoral research with Prof. Nikolay Zenkin (Â鶹´«Ã½), developing an in vitro system to study coupling of transcription and splicing using purified snRNPs from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.


Professional Societies and Previous roles

Elected Member of Royal Society of Biology (MRSB)

Biochemical Society

2014-2016: International student representative in postgraduate research (PGR) committee, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Â鶹´«Ã½

2014-2016: Member of research students programme review committee, Â鶹´«Ã½