Staff Profile
Dr Shiney Mathew
Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
- Address: School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
Qualifications
BSc (hons) in Biotechnology, Kerala University, India (2009)
MSc in Food Biotechnology, Strathclyde University (2010)
MRes in Medical Sciences, Newcastle University (2013)
PhD in non-canonical translational mechanism of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Newcastle University (2017)
Previous Academic Positions
2018-2019: Postdoctoral research with Prof. Jean Beggs (University of Edinburgh), studying interplay of intron and promoter on the efficient co-transcriptional splicing of Ribosomal Proteins (RP) transcripts.
2020-2023: Postdoctoral research with Prof. Nikolay Zenkin (Newcastle University), developing an in vitro system to study coupling of transcription and splicing using purified snRNPs from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Professional Societies and Previous roles
Elected Member of Royal Society of Biology (MRSB)
Biochemical Society
2014-2016: International student representative in postgraduate research (PGR) committee, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University
2014-2016: Member of research students programme review committee, Newcastle University