Staff Profile
Ben Wetherall
Research Associate Cell Biologist
- Email: ben.wetherall@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/research/institutes/biosciences/
- Address: Newcastle University Biosciences Institute
Catherine Cookson Building
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Framlington Place
NE2 4HH
Background
I am a research associate working in the lab of Dr Suzanne Madgwick. I undertook a PhD in molecular genetics at Newcastle, and now my work focuses on the control (or lack thereof) of chromosome alignment and segregation during Meiosis I in oocytes.
Publications
- Thomas C, Wetherall B, Levasseur MD, Harris RJ, Kerridge ST, Higgins JMG, Davies OR, Madgwick S. A prometaphase mechanism of securin destruction is essential for meiotic progression in mouse oocytes. Nature Communications 2021, 12(1), 4322.