Michael Way

Biography

Michael Way did his undergraduate in the Biophysics Department at King's College, University of London. During his PhD he studied the actin binding properties of gelsolinin the laboratory of Alan Weeds in the structural studies division of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. In 1989 he received the Max Perutz Student Prize for his PhD work. He remained in Alan's lab as a postdoc for three years studying the actin binding properties of alpha-actinin, dystrophin and gelsolin before moving to Boston, for a second three year postdoc with Paul Matsudaira at the Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. In 1995, he moved back to Europe, starting his own group, studying vacciniavirus in the Cell Biology Programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.

Research Interest

His current research focuses on variety of quantitative imaging and biochemical approaches to study how vaccinia virus takes advantage of its host as a model system to understand signalling networks, cytoplasmic transport and cytoskeletal dynamics.