Biochemical Journal Poster Prize winner

Guia Carrara

Guia Carrara arrived in the UK in 2005 to do a BSc in Biology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. She then went on to do a Masters in Molecular Biology and Pathology of Viruses in 2008 at Imperial College London where she undertook a research project within the laboratory of Dr. Ian Goodfellow on a previously uncharacterised Norovirus Protein. She then went on to start a PhD in the laboratory of Professor Geoffrey Smith at Imperial College London. She is now at the end of her 1^st year where she researched is based on the structural and functional characterisation of a Vaccinia virus protein and its human homologue which has recently been discovered in our laboratory. This protein has been named Golgi Anti-Apoptotic Protein (GAAP).