Lauren Platts

Email: boa08lp@shef.ac.uk

Biography

• 2008-2012 BSc in Biology with a Modern Language 1st class honours at the University of Sheffield in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences.
• Academic year 2010-2011 spent studying at the University of Valencia, Spain.
• Summer of 2010 spent working with researchers in the Molecular Ecology Lab in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences in Sheffield funded by the SURE Scheme.

Supervisor: Dr Robert Falconer

Dr Robert Falconer's Group
Biological and Environmental Systems Group

Reserach

I am in my first year PhD currently investigating the effects of various small organic molecules on the thermal stability of proteins, with the aim of improving liquid formulations of therapeutic proteins important to the pharmaceutical industry.