From left: Kar Yan Soh and Sam Blanchett
Congratulations Kar Yan Soh and Sam Blanchett who successfully defended their theses.
Kar Yan Soh had her oral PhD examination last month. Her thesis is entitled ‘Functional Analysis of Streptococcal Virulence Factors using a Zebrafish Infection Model’. She is supervised by Associate Professor Thomas Proft and co-supervised by Dr Jacelyn Loh and Dr Christopher Hall
Sam Blanchett completed his PhD under the supervision of Associate Professor Thomas Proft, co-supervised by Dr Jacelyn Loh. His thesis was entitled ‘PilVax: A novel peptide carrier for the development of vaccines against tuberculosis’.
This Marsden-funded project was done in collaboration with Associate Professor Jo Kirman from Otago University and focused on the development of mucosal peptide vaccines against TB using the PilVax peptide delivery platform. After the successful completion of his thesis Sam accepted a Postdoc position with Professor Benedict Seddon at the University College London (UCL) starting in January 2020.