Dr Jonathon Nixon-Abell

Jonathon Nixon-Abell

College Research Associate
Research interestsJonathon began his research career with a joint PhD program in the labs of Prof. Kirsten Harvey (UCL) and Dr. Craig Blackstone (NIH/Harvard). Following the completion of his PhD in 2016, Jonathon was awarded an ORISE and HHMI visiting fellowship to undertake postdoctoral work in the lab of Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (HHMI Janelia), before moving back to the UK as a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow in the lab of Peter St George-Hyslop (Cambridge). As of 2024 Jonathon is a Group Leader and Wellcome CDA fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research where his team study organelle interactions and dynamics in neurons, and how these processes are corrupted in neurological disease.

Additional information on the research conducted by the Nixon-Abell lab can be found at https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-jonathon-nixon-abell.
For enquiries, please contact Jonathon on jjn36@cam.ac.uk.