Dr Matthew Jessop
Senior Scientific Officer:
Dr Matthew Jessop completed his BSc in Biology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, from 2012-2014. He spent a year in the lab of Alok Mitra for his BSc (Hons) using single-particle cryo-EM to study the antifeeding prophage (AFP) complex, a bacterial toxin delivery system. He carried out his PhD from 2016-2020 in Grenoble, France, working in the lab of Irina Gutsche at the Institut de Biologie Structurale on bacterial enzymes involved in acid stress using single particle cryo-EM. He then moved to the ICR in 2020 for a postdoc in Sebastian Guettler’s lab, using biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology to characterise the PARP protein Tankyrase. Since 2025 he has been working in the Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) lab as a CLEM and cryo-ET scientist developing in situ structural biology workflows at the ICR.