Dr
Paula
MacGregor
Paula MacGregor is a BBSRC David Phillips Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. After obtaining a BSci (Hons) in Genetics at the University of Glasgow, Paula carried out a PhD and first post-doc position with Prof. Keith Matthews at the University of Edinburgh. Paula then carried out a second post-doc position in the laboratory of Prof. Mark Carrington at the University of Cambridge before starting her own research group in 2017.
The research in the MacGregor group aims to understand and exploit the molecular and cellular biology of the interaction between African trypanosomes and their external environment in the mammalian host. This includes characterisation of diverse trypanosome surface proteins; comparative high resolution spatial mapping of the global proteomes of trypanosome species; and exploitation of receptor-mediated ligand uptake for the targeted delivery of biological therapeutics into trypanosomes.