Sara Clohisey Hendry

Senior Postdoc

Sara runs a range of activities in the lab, and is forging an independent research programme using genomics and genome editing to understand the mechanisms underlying bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a devastating lung problem in pre-term infants.

Sara graduated from Trinity College Dublin after which she completed a PhD studying determinants of cytoskeletal function in Drosophila at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh. She joined the Baillie lab in 2014 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

She has a long track record using cutting-edge techniques to udnerstand host-pathogen interactions. Previously, she has focused on the interaction between influenza A virus and human macrophages. More recently, Sara is focusing on how CRISPR technology can alter gene expression in lung tissue to see how it might change the response of the cells to pathogens.

In her spare time she likes to work in the garden and do yoga.