Laia Pasquina Lemonche is an early career Research Associate in Professor Jamie Hobbs’ group at University of Sheffield. She is developing new approaches to push the limits of resolution of biological material with AFM with the aim to study the peptidoglycan architecture of the cell wall more in detail.
Biography: Laia graduated from Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2015, where in her 4th year she took part in the ERASMUS program at the University of Ghent. She then received a Master in Nanobiotechnology and Nanoscience at UAB in 2016. Afterwards she started her PhD in Biophysics at the University of Sheffield focused on deciphering the molecular architecture of gram-positive bacterial cell wall using AFM (see paper). After she finished her PhD in 2020, she has kept working in the Hobbs group focusing on understanding how the bacterial cell wall structure changes upon antibiotic treatments and other environments. Recently, she is developing new approaches to push the limits of resolution of biological material with AFM with the aim to study the peptidoglycan architecture of the cell wall more in detail. Outside the lab, Laia is an avid skater and has taken part of a team of Roller Derby, she is an amateur painter and loves playing piano.
Twitter: @Laia_Pasquina
Website: http://www.floreyinstitute.com/laia-pasquina-lemonche.html