Gold Lab Members

Matthew G. Gold, PhD

Matt graduated with a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2003. He completed his PhD with Professor David Barford FRS in the Department of Structural Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research in 2007. He was a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow with Professor John Scott FRS (University of Washington, Dept. Pharmacology) prior to starting his group at UCL in 2012.

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Tim Church, PhD

Tim graduated from the University of Surrey with a degree in Biochemistry in 2011. He completed his PhD with Professor Neil Marrion and Dr. Jon Brown at the University of Bristol in 2016, and joined the Gold lab after a year studying neuronal sodium channels with Stephanie Schorge at the Institute of Neurology. Tim is applying techniques including electrophysiology to investigate Protein Kinase A and calcineurin targeting in the synapse.

Jian Zhu, PhD

Jian completed his PhD at the University of Zurich, where he applied techniques including crystallography and molecular dynamics to develop selective bromodomain inhibitors. Prior to his PhD, Jian led an industrial team using crystallography to investigate targets including PDE. He is currently using an integrative approach to investigate the structure and function of protein complexes that underlie long-term potentiation.

Ashton Curtis

Ashton is a PhD student training on the BBSRC London Interdisciplinary Biosciences (LIDo) consortium PhD training programme. Ashton completed a MSci in Pharmacology at UCL, graduating with the AJ Clarke prize. He is focusing on understanding the structural basis of CaMKII targeting in the synapse.

Ida Lønsmann Christensen

Ida is a visiting masters student from the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen. She is interested in local cAMP signalling mechanisms.