Emily Byrd

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Postdoctoral Fellow

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

Postdoctoral researcher in the Calabrese lab. I completed my PhD in the Radford and Sobott labs at the University of Leeds where I applied ion mobility mass spectrometry to study alpha-synuclein amyloid assembly. My research goals include the development and application of structural mass spectrometry hybrid techniques including : ion mobility, HDX, XL, FPOP and top-down fragmentation to study intrinsically disordered proteins related to disease. I aim to apply these techniques towards better understanding, detection and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. https://bsky.app/profile/emilyjbyrd.bsky.social [email protected]

Experience

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Postdoctoral Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    Developing nanopipette-enabled native, ion mobility, and top-down mass spectrometry workflows to study intact proteoforms and conformational ensembles of proteins linked to neurodegenerative disease. Two-year outgoing phase based at the University of California, Los Angeles

  • University of Leeds (Full-time · 6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Jan 2024 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    • PHD Student
      Oct 2019 - Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      BBSRC White Rose PhD student applying structural mass spectrometry to investigate amyloid aggregation. http://sheena-radford-lab.uk/members.php

  • Professional Intern at Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Europe) Ltd
    Jul 2022 - Sep 2022 · 3 mos

    Professional Internship with Shimadzu Research Laboratory.

  • Research Student at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
    Aug 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Research placement student in Dr Ruth Saunders lab, University Hospitals of Leicester. My roles included primarily cell culture of human airways smooth muscle cells, characterisation using flow cytometry and isolation of mast cells from human ling tissue.

  • Summer Research Intern at Imperial College London
    Jul 2017 - Aug 2017 · 2 mos

    Research placement in Professor David Rueda's single molecule imaging lab, Imperial College London. Optimised the use of the Lumicks Acoustic Force Spectroscopy platform to investigate the mechanical properties of DNA.