Short bio
Kathryn received her BSc and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Sheffield. Following eleven years as a laboratory manager at the University of Leicester, she established the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics at the University of Cambridge in 2001. In 2012, she was appointed Professor of Cellular Dynamics in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and since 2023 has served as deputy head of department for research.
Her contributions to the field have been recognized through prestigious awards, including the Juan Pablo Albar Proteome Pioneer Award from the European Proteomics Association in 2017 and the HUPO Distinguished Achievement in Proteomics Award in 2018. She was elected as a member of EMBO in July 2020 and to Academia Europaea in May 2023.
Research interest
Kathryn directs a research programme focused on developing and applying cutting-edge technologies to map RNA and protein subcellular localization across entire cells. Her research examines how post-transcriptional and post-translational processing affect cellular location, as well as the extent of relocalization that occurs in response to cellular stress and disease. She is also interested in understanding the fundamental rules governing protein abundance and stability.
Her dynamic research group develops specialized data analysis pipelines for spatial proteomics, supported by fully maintained open-access software. Her group applies these innovative methods across diverse biological systems, from vaccine safety studies to investigating protein stability in extremophiles.