Jonas Roland Knudsen - University of Bristol, UK

PhD student Jonas Roland Knudsen has received an exchange travel grant of 30.000 DKK to visit the laboratory of Professor Paul Verkade, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, from 14 August 2017 - 16 February 2018. 

In Joans Knudsens PhD project they seek to combine the expertise from his current lab within human exercise physiology with a novel and extremely powerful microscopy technique called CLEM (correlative light and electron microscopy) pioneered by Prof. Paul Verkade and his lab. This will allow them to take a giant leap forward towards understanding two subcellular processes within muscle exercise physiology; glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) translocation and autophagy.

Prof. Verkade has created a unique environment of chemists, cell biologists and engineers working together to construct and develop software and hardware to combine light- and electron microscopy. They are the absolute frontrunners within this field and there is no doubt that the opportunity to work with and learn from Verkade and his team would be a great learning experience. Working in his lab for six months will also provide me the required skills to set-up and perform CLEM and electron microscopy related experiments in our own core facility when I return to Denmark.