Emily Noël

Dr Emily Noël is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield's School of Biosciences. Her research focuses on understanding heart development and congenital defects using zebrafish models. She holds a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship and has led projects on ECM dynamics and heart morphogenesis.

Education:

• BSc Biochemistry (University of Warwick, 2001-2004)
• PhD Student in Ober Lab (National Institute for Medical Research, London, 2005-2009)

Research Interests: Heart Development and Congenital Defects. Uses genetic editing (CRISPR-Cas9), live imaging, and quantitative analysis to study cell-ECM interactions during heart formation. Recent work emphasizes asymmetric ECM expansion and laminin roles in cardiac morphogenesis.

Grants & Awards:

• British Heart Foundation Fellowship
• Academy of Medical Sciences/Wellcome Trust Grant
• Rosetrees Trust Funding

Teaching: Leads courses in Developmental Biology, Biomedical Technology, and Disease Modeling at undergraduate/graduate levels. Supervises MSc and PhD students including Juliana Sánchez Posada and Emma Armitage.