Team
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Jeanne Salje
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Department of Biochemistry
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow
Theme Lead, Infection and Immunity, School of Biological Sciences
Jeanne Salje studies the fundamental biology of obligate intracellular bacteria with a particular focus on Orientia tsutsugamushi, the causative agent of the life-threatening human disease scrub typhus that is endemic in many parts of Asia.
Cambridge
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Panjaporn Chaichana (Opal)
Postdoc
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Kittirat Saharat
Postdoc
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Frances Aylward
PhD (rotation) Student
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Owen Somhorst
PhD student
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Beth Harris
Research Assistant
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Friendly Orientia
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Rachel Jackson
PhD student
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Creepy Orientia
Bangkok
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Chitrasak Kullapanich (Mike)
Postdoc
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Naphat Satapoomin (Aim)
Postdoc
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Wipoo Prasitwuttisak (Pooh)
Postdoc
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Oakem Kyne
Bioinformatician
Alumni
Asta Hobbs-Hart
Adam Agbamu
Suthida Chuenklin (now at Oxford)
Suparat Giengkam (now at EMBL, Germany)
Sharanjeet Atwal (now working at Thermofisher)
Fangze Tong (undergraduate at Cambridge University)
Yanin Jaiyen