Life and career
In 1998, Collinson received a PhD in molecular microbiology from the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry of the Queen Mary University of London, supervised by Mike Curtis. [1] [2] She became interested in electron microscopy towards the end of her PhD, after the excitement of seeing the bacteria after years of studying bacterial protein bands on gels. [2] That same year, she became a postdoctoral research assistant at Imperial College London and University College London, working with Colin Hopkins. [1]
In 2004, Collinson became the head of electron microscopy at a molecular cell biology laboratory at University College London. [1] In 2006, Collinson became the head of electron microscopy at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute. [1] [2] In 2013, she collaborated with a team of researchers at the University of York on a large collaborative grant to the UK Medical Research Council to purchase a new type of combined electron and light microscope. [2] In 2015, when the London Research Unit became part of the Francis Crick Institute, she became the head of electron microscopy there. [1] [3] [4] In her role as head of that effort she is involved in many collaborative projects, [5] publishing on a range of topics. [6]
In 2019, Collinson co-edited Correlative Imaging: Focusing on the Future with Paul Verkade, which was published by Wiley. [7] She guest edited a volume of Journal of Cell Science with Guillaume Jacquemet. [5]
In 2024 she received the Distinguished Scientist Award in biological sciences from the Microscopy Society of America. [8]
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