Postdoctoral fellow @
Advanced Live Cell Imaging
Jonathan Dragwidge obtained his PhD in 2017 in La Trobe University, Australia where he studied the role of sodium hydrogen exchangers in plant development and trafficking under supervision of Tony Gendall. After finishing his PhD he joined the lab of Karin Schumacher at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) in Heidelberg, Germany. Here he used live-cell imaging approaches to study the dynamics of the Golgi complex and trans-Golgi network (TGN). In 2019, he joined the lab of Daniel Van Damme to investigate the role of the TPLATE complex in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. His work demonstrate that the TPLATE complex assembles into liquid-like compartments known as biomolecular condensates, and that this process catalyses the assembly of clathrin-coated vesicles. He is currently funded by an FWO postdoctoral fellowship since 2021.