Louise Walport

Summary

Louise is a Lecturer in the Chemistry Department and a Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute.

Louise obtained her PhD in chemical biology from the University of Oxford in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Chris Schofield and Prof. Christina Redfield. She used a combination of biochemical and structural techniques to study the structure and function of ‘reader’ and ‘eraser’ proteins involved in epigenetics.

Following further postdoctoral work in Oxford, she obtained a Global Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to work in Japan for two years in the laboratory of Hiroaki Suga at the University of Tokyo, with a return year in Chris Schofield’s laboratory at the University of Oxford. In 2018, she established her lab at the Francis Crick Institute in a joint appointment with the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - DPhil University of Oxford (2009.10 — 2014.02)
• MChem University of Oxford (2005.10 — 2009.10)

Companies

• Lecturer Imperial College London (2018)
• Group Leader The Francis Crick Institute (2018)
• Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellow - return year University of Oxford (2017 — 2018)
• Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellow The University of Tokyo (2015 — 2017)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Oxford (2013 — 2015)