Jack Collier
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Jack studied Biomedical Genetics for his undergraduate degree at Newcastle University. His PhD project then involved researching rare neurological diseases at the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research at Newcastle University, primarily focussing on characterising a novel neurodevelopmental disorder caused by impaired autophagy. During this time, Jack was awarded an EMBO Short-term Fellowship at the University of Helsinki where he used induced pluripotent stem cells and differentiated neural culture to further uncover how defective autophagy impairs neural integrity. Now an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, Jack’s training continues in the McBride Lab where he moves to uncover how Parkinson’s disease-related proteins regulate innate and adaptive immunity in response to inflammation.
Expertise: Neurological disease, autophagy, intracellular trafficking