Magdalena Gierula

Magdalena Gierula

Magdalena Gierula is a Research Technician for the Centre for Infection Prevention and Management (CIPM).  She provides up-to-date technical expertise, advice and support in proteomics for the laboratory-based research programme of work-stream 2 “clinical network of infection diagnostics, which aims to determine the protein constituents of various bacterial preparations including Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile.

Magdalena’s specific duties include identification of proteins by mass spectrometry preparing synthetic peptides necessary for antibody production, assisting in the analysis of antibodies by western blotting and ELISA and maintaining the relevant data records.  She also has responsibility for the day-to-day co-ordination, running and maintenance of the mass spectroscopy equipment and peptide synthesis robot used by the group.

Magdalena is based primarily in the Laboratory of Dr Rob Edwards, a CIPM collaborator based in Experimental Medicine and Toxicology, where protein analysis is centred.  She therefore works between the Experimental Medicine laboratory and the category 2 Infectious Diseases laboratory which is based on the same site.

Background

Magdalena graduated from the University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, with a Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, which included a major in Molecular Biotechnology and Biocatalysis.

She worked at the Laboratory of Microbial Immunochemistry and Vaccines at the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław, where she was involved in analysing antibodies’ activities using electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), immunoblotting, ELISA. She has also worked at Proxima Concepts Ltd, London, where she was involved in projects relating to proprietary oral drug delivery technology.

Contact: m.gierula@imperial.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7594 7394