Emily Freeman

Emily is a current PhD student in the Schofield group (University of Oxford), co-supervised by Allen Orville at Diamond Light Source, and is enrolled on the Interdisciplinary Bioscience BBSRC DTP programme. As part of the programme, Emily undertook a 12-week rotation project in the XFEL-Hub at Diamond, where she performed time-resolved serial crystallography experiments on AmpC, a beta-lactamase enzyme which can cause antimicrobial resistance in E.coli. Research Complex provides Emily with the necessary resources, equipment and expertise she needed to carry the project forward, which resulted in obtaining time-resolved data from PAL-XFEL within this short timeframe. Now within her main PhD project, Emily is continuing to focus on beta-lactamase enzymes and the development of novel inhibitors against them. She will continue to employ time-resolved serial crystallography techniques in this work.